Why trade unions should not support the Morning Star

by Jim Denham, 22 pages, ISBN 9781909639645 This short pamphlet explains why trade unions should not be giving political and financial support to a newspaper which is not the "daily paper of the left" but the mouthpiece of the Communist Party of Britain: Introduction In August 2022 the executive of the Bakers Food and Allied Workers’ Union …

The Brexit disaster three years on – and the need for a socialist response

Three years on from Brexit, support for it is collapsing and the charlatans who sold it to 52% of voters have been discredited. Pollster John Curtice calculates that 57% of people now favour rejoining the EU, with just 43% for staying out. Matthew Goodwin, an academic who specialises in (and seems to have some sympathy …

The Morning Star and Johnson: the love that comes pretty close to speaking its name

Backing Johnson's 'line' on Brexit Right to the end, the Morning Star couldn’t hide its admiration for Boris Johnson:“[His] genius was – despite the division among our rulers over the membership of the EU – to capitalise on the disillusion in working-class areas to get a Tory Brexit rather than the version which could be …

Johnson – Big Dog dead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMjXDdUxZ9c Dave Kellaway of Anti*Capitalist Resistance, writing on 6 July (ie a day before Johnson finally announced that he will go - albeit not until autumn), discusses what is happening in the Tory party, and how socialists inside and outside the Labour party should respond: What a spectacle! There is a meme on social media of …

Johnson prepares to ‘override’ his own Northern Ireland deal

The majority in Northern Ireland voted against Brexit and now support maintaining the Protocol MPs vote today on legislation to give the Johnson government powers to override key parts of the post-Brexit deal (the so-called Protocol) on Northern Ireland, after Johnson and his ministers, true to form, dismissed considerations of legality. The EU has launched legal …

Full text of Lord Geidt’s letter of resignation

Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests The Rt Hon Lord Geidt Rt Hon Boris Johnson MP Prime Minister10 Downing Street London SWIA2AA[by email] 15 June 2022 Dear Prime Minister, I appeared before the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee in Parliament yesterday. I was glad for the opportunity 10 give an account of the recent changes …

Northern Ireland: Tories’ protocol hypocrisy and irresponsibility

Above: Protesters gathered at the Irish border between Newry and Dundalk in 2019 In the latest of its many feeble attempts to justify overturning the Northern Ireland Protocol that it drew up, signed and hailed as a triumph at the 2019 election, the Johnson government is now invoking the "doctrine of necessity." This obscure legal …

Big Dog bleeding badly

Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images Dave Kellaway (at the Anti*Capitalist Resistance website) asks if Boris Johnson can recover from his political mauling Teresa May must have sensed things were going to be worst than expected for Johnson on Monday night. She came to the vote in her best clothes. They say revenge is a dish best served …

Afghans betrayed by Britain – and the US

The Taliban swept to power in Afghanistan after US-led forces withdrew last year The UK's withdrawal from Afghanistan last year was a "disaster" and a "betrayal", an inquiry by British MPs has found. During the run-up to the Taliban takeover, the UK government and civil servants suffered from an "optimism bias" that the US would …

As DUP sabotages democracy let’s look again at the Irish border and Brexit

By Micheál MacEoin, adapted and updated by JD One crucial aspect of Brexit, the impact on the Irish (or, rather, British-Irish) border, was comprehensively ignored in the British media and by most British politicians during the 2016 referendum campaign. The few people who tried to raise the issue were accused by Brexiteers of promoting "project …