“In between bouts of rage and pessimism, today I also felt something else coming to the surface. Curiosity.”
Today we explore the death of Ahmed Jabbar Kareem Ali. (Day 2 of our 7 day series)
Government and media have denied, dismissed and derided allegations of abuse by British soldiers in Iraq. Over 7 days we’ll interrogate a very British scandal. Day 1: Attack the lawyers.
On the single market, Labour, the Tories, and UKIP, appear to agree: good access to the single market not membership of it - in disagreement with the SNP, LibDems and Greens.
Alienated, homeless, denied the right to work, criminalised.
Generation Revolution follows the journey of Black Lives Matter activists in London, presenting a valuable new angle on the challenges they face in fighting for their rights on the streets.
“My daughter and I appeared before the Sharia court at Regent's Park mosque in London. They were not interested in anything we had to say, the whole process was shocking.”
If not Theresa May, the accompanying media ought to note the gross human rights violations and crackdowns on dissent that abound.
The crisis of neoliberal globalisation has made the issue of sovereignty the centre of contemporary political discourse. If the Left is to conquer post-neoliberal hegemony it has to construct a progressive view of sovereignty.
Reference to populism indicates little more than that mainstream politics is in trouble, thereby presenting tautology as explanation: mainstream politics is in trouble because mainstream politics is in trouble.
It is how texts are read, not texts themselves that determine meaning. Applying this post-modernist lesson to the Chakrabarti and Home Affairs Committee antisemitism reports yields new political possibilities.
