A people’s policy on Europe

by Robert Griffiths Some English and British nationalists tend to oppose the EU because they fear or resent close relations with foreigners. However, as in the case of Ukip, this antipathy Continue reading →

Contradictions in the UKIP brand

Robert Griffiths continues his series on the rise of UKIP The United Kingdom Independence Party (Ukip) is an alliance of some big capitalists in both finance and manufacturing, with elements Continue reading →

What’s behind the advance of Ukip?

Above top UKIP 2nd preferences 2012 London Mayor election Above bottom Eastleigh Bye election Where UKIP votes came from by Robert Griffiths The United Kingdom Independence Party (Ukip) grew out Continue reading →

A call to the labour movement

The Tory-LibDem government is attacking the living standards and democratic rights of workers and their families on a scale not seen in Britain since the 1930s. It is an integrated, Continue reading →

What’s Left? Industrial strategy, the labour movement and manufacturing in Britain

One of Margaret Thatcher’s grimmest legacies was, in Seumas Milne’s resonant phrase the ‘pulverising deindustrialisation’ of Britain. This was achieved in part through the forcible destruction of entire industries, but Continue reading →

Financialisation, the euro and the crisis

Building on his work as a leading member of the renowned Research on Money and Finance group, Costas Lapavitsas, a leftist political economist, has written a significant book on the Continue reading →

Troika out of Cyprus!

Download the latest Akel bulletin here Akel Bulletin April 2013

AKEL: let the people decide

from Parakiaiki the newspaper of Cypriots in Britain AKEL: Let the people decide on agreement In its first official reaction since the Eurogroup decision, opposition AKEL, the island’s second largest Continue reading →

Ireland and Cyprus

In a message of solidarity with the Cypriot people, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Ireland, Eugene McCartan, stated that the Troika’s anti-people measures being imposed upon the Continue reading →

Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “A general reorientation of policy is what’s on the agenda.”

From l’Humanite As the Parti de Gauche convention opens, its co-president, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, says “asking (the government) to shift” is no longer enough. Your party congress is opening at the Continue reading →