In a strikingly different stance to leaders of the Australian Labor Party, which has backed the Coalition governmentās support for the illegitimate coup āgovernmentā in Venezuela, several leading members of Britainās Labour Party have rejected the US attempt at regime change in the oil-rich South American nation.
Labour Party (UK)
The British Labour Party took a radical, anti-austerity manifesto to last yearās general elections and, despite polls and media commentators expecting an unprecedented disaster, came close to winning, denying the ruling Conservatives a majority. Despite this success, attempts to attack and sabotage Labourās socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn, and the ranks that support his vision, have continued. ²Ń¾±³¦³ó²¹±š±ōĢż°ä²¹±ō»å±š°ł²ś²¹²Ō°ģĀ takes a look at what took place and what it means for the partyās future.
Participatory socialist economics: the vision of British Labourās shadow chancellor John McDonnell
Tory-supporting media have been portraying Britainās socialist Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn as a Soviet fellow-traveller. Meanwhile, ±į¾±±ō²¹°ł²āĢż°Ā²¹¾±²Ō·É°ł¾±²µ³ó³Ł notes, Labourās shadow chancellor and close Corbyn ally sets out a vision that breaks with the old bureaucratic state model.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell can usually barely breathe a word about nationalisation without setting off a media frenzy, so itās strange that his most interesting comments yet on the subject passed with so little comment.
British opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said on April 14 that there was no legal basis for British strikes against Syria and such action would encourage others to behave in the same way. He has called for a new War Powers Act, which would require the British government to seek approval from parliament for any future military actions.
In a letter to British Prime Minister Theresa May, Corbyn explained why he opposed the coordinated United States, British and French strikes against Syrian government structures. The coalition fired more than 100 missiles into Syria.
In 1792, pioneering British feminist and social justice activist Mary Wollstonecroft wrote inĀ The Rights of Women: āIt is justice, not charity that is wanting in the world.ā
Now, 226 years later, Labour has anchored that fundamental truth in its vision for international development:Ā .
Ever since his unexpected rise to British Labour Party leader, veteran socialist MP Jeremy Corbyn has faced sustained attacks and smears from the media, Tories and the right-wing of his own party. But over the past month, the attacks have become an unprecedented avalanche.
In the middle of the harshest winter for more than a decade, Britain finds itself still gripped by the icy fingers of neoliberal austerity.
Delegates to the recent Labour Party conference in the English seaside town of Brighton seemed not to notice a video playing in the main entrance.
Everyone sensed the new energy at this yearās Labour Party conference, held in Brighton from September 24-27.
The reality of the conference was something not seen in Britain for a long time: thousands of determined and self-confident members of a Labour Party that boldly stands for what they believe in.
The strike at two branches of McDonaldās in Britain was ājust the startā, Labourās shadow chancellor John McDonnell said on September 4. Speaking at a rally outside Parliament the day before, the shadow chancellor hailed the striking workers as an āabsolute inspirationā.
Workers at the burger giantās restaurants in Cambridge and Crayford, south-east London, downed aprons in protest at the harassment of workers and the victimisation of union members.
In his September 2 article āResponding on Sanders and reforming the Democratsā, Barry Sheppard fundamentally mischaracterises the position I outlined in āSocialists and Bernie Sandersā. I specifically did not argue in favour of the far left in the US trying to āreformā the Democratic Party.
Disparaged and smeared by the Labour Party machine and corporate media for almost two years, Momentum ā a grassroots group of Labour members committed to the socialist politics of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn ā came out fighting during the campaign for the June 8 general elections.
Spurred on by a sense of idealism, this campaign came close to sweeping Labour into government on the most transformative manifesto for a generation.
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