Black Lives Matter

By Public Reading Rooms

One more step towards ‘death squads’ in the USA

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  7 July 2020

  Black Lives Matter in Exeter
• 
  4 July 2020

  A comment on Trump’s Mount Rushmore speech
• 
  30 June 2020

  Black Lives Matter 2020: results and prospects

Coronavirus

By Public Reading Rooms

We are all Minneapolis

• 
  29 May 2020

  The murder of George Floyd — just another day in Trump’s America
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  19 May 2020

  Pandemic creations – links to a new world.
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  19 May 2020

  PREGNANT PAUSE: Remarks on the Corona Crisis

Brexit

By Public Reading Rooms

The B team Strategy

• 
  13 December 2019

  Election defeat: what happened and what next?
• 
  22 November 2019

  The Long Conservative Decline
• 
  9 October 2019

  Brexit — why Right is not the new Left

Politics of Fashion

By Tansy Hoskins

Stamping out human rights and environmental abuses in the fashion business

By Tansy Hoskins

Are celebrity culture and fashion the new opium of the people?

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  5 January 2017

  How the fashion industry is a stitch up that swindles us all
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  22 October 2016

  Is more ‘ethical’ shopping the way to tame corporate greed and the inequalities of capitalism?

Jeremy Corbyn

By Andrew Burgin

Springtime? Welcome to the Peace and Justice Project

By Public Reading Rooms

The spinelessness of the left’s ‘leaders’ marks the final defeat of Corbynism

• 

  23 November 2019

  Labour’s economic policy: the challenge ahead
• 

  2 September 2019

  Mass Action Can Stop the Brexit Coup
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  5 August 2019

  A Labour pact with the Liberal Democrats: neither possible nor desirable
• 

  12 April 2019

  British Jews support Jeremy Corbyn and Labour as crucial ally in the fight against antisemitism

Rise of the Far Right

By Public Reading Rooms

Chega: the worst of the Portuguese political system now has a party

By Public Reading Rooms

Portugal’s far-right: what is Ventura’s party made of? Evangelical cults, luxury real estate and fake accounts

• 

  18 August 2020

  Extreme-right escalates violence in Portugal
• 

  10 April 2020

  Orbán sets the stage for dictatorship

Latin America

By Public Reading Rooms

Recharged after Covid-19, AMLO nationalises electricity

By Public Reading Rooms

Challenging the EU sanctions regime: Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela

• 

  21 December 2020

  Justice in Mexico does not depend on the United States
• 

  8 December 2020

  Juan Guaidó, Trump and the European Union
• 

  23 October 2020

  Bolivia’s great victory against US imperialism and the immense challenges ahead
• 

  3 September 2020

  Allende’s Chile: 50 years on – mourning and celebrating

Palestine

By Gideon Levy

Germany, shame on you for defining the BDS movement against Israel as anti-Semitic

By Haidar Eid

Madonna: How did it feel to sing and dance so close to so much human misery and suffering?

• 

  19 May 2019

  Daniel Barenboim: why I am ashamed of being an Israeli in a racist apartheid state
• 

  17 May 2019

  Why Israel’s endless brutality against Palestinians will hang over all the Eurovision singing and dancing
• 

  15 May 2019

  Today I saw a picture of a weeping Palestinian man holding a plastic carrier bag of meat. It was his son.
• 

  10 May 2019

  Ahed Tamimi: what it means for child of Israeli occupation to be a symbol of Palestinian resistance

Anti-Semitism

By Public Reading Rooms

The sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey

By Public Reading Rooms

A lesson in the ruthlessness of the British ruling class

• 

  21 April 2019

  Why aren’t Europeans calling Israel an apartheid state?
• 

  10 April 2019

  How antisemitism is used as a weapon to weaken, stigmatise and divide the left

Climate Change

By Adam Dylan Hefty

Defending the environment needs social solidarity – the politics of climate looting

By Seema Syeda

A decade ago the banks crashed the economy; now they’re crashing the planet

• 

  15 February 2019

  Why electing Jeremy Corbyn would be a big step towards solving the most political issue of our time
• 

  13 February 2019

  Trapped in the climate change horror movie as just 100 companies destroy the planet to line their pockets

Islamophobia

By Public Reading Rooms

 Help The World – a new organisation in Oxford

Ayesha Abbasi writes about setting up her new organisation Help The World Oxford.             Asalamu alaikum and hello! 

By Matt Carr

Has US gangster-in-chief Trump publicly set up Ilhan Omar for assassination?

• 

  26 March 2019

  Ilhan Omar: every single Muslim living as a second class citizen in the US should raise hell
• 

  23 March 2019

  Springtime for fascism: how to stop Britain sinking deeper into the toxic political sewer

Music and Politics

By Public Reading Rooms

‘NEVER AGAIN’ anti-racist group organises at Polish Woodstock

By Public Reading Rooms

Viva la Quinta Brigada”No Pasaran”, the pledge that made them fight. By Christy More

• 

  24 April 2019

  Paul Robeson — a moral giant in his time and still a shining inspiration in ours
• 

  14 April 2019

  Immigrants (We Get The Job Done): By K’Naan (feat. Residente, Riz MC & Snow Tha Product)
• 

  13 April 2019

  She doesn’t need the money, so why is Madonna performing at Eurovision in apartheid Israel?
• 

  26 March 2019

  RIBS. By Hejira. You keep building these walls that I can’t climb.

Akala

By Akala

Akala: ‘As I grew up, I became embarrassed by my mother’s whiteness’

By Akala

By choice, Akala has never voted before. But Jeremy Corbyn has changed his mind

• 

  20 October 2016

  Akala: Malcolm Said it
• 

  20 October 2016

  Akala: Find No Enemy

Harry Leslie Smith

By Harry Leslie Smith

Britain’s 21st-century housing catastrophe bears an eerie resemblance to my 1930s childhood

• 
  21 November 2018

  Why Jeremy Corbyn’s manifesto of equality and fairness inspires 95-year-old Harry Leslie Smith
• 
  20 November 2018

  Life before the NHS: hunger, filth, fear, death
• 
  18 November 2018

  If we let them, the Tories will destroy the NHS and return us to dog-eat-dog world of my youth

Media

By Nozomi Hayase

The indictment against Julian Assange is a war on truth and the criminalization of journalism

By Kenn Orphan

How social media polices thought and dampens dissent in the society of the spectacle

• 

  2 May 2019

  Think you can avoid Julian Assange and what happens to him? Think again
• 

  13 April 2019

  The arrest of Julian Assange for the crime of real journalism: a warning from history
• 

  11 April 2019

  We are all Julian Assange: no remaining silent faced with crimes committed in name of power
• 

  11 April 2019

  Julian Assange arrested: the time to act is now. What to do to stop his extradition to the US

Michael Rosen

By Michael Rosen

White supremacism has been around a long time, long before the horror and terror of Christchurch

By Michael Rosen

The War of Corbyn’s Coat. By Michael Rosen

• 

  3 November 2018

  No Pasaran – They Shall Not Pass | By Michael Rosen
• 

  6 September 2018

  Why the Nation State of Israel does not mention the people who are not mentioned
• 

  15 June 2018

  Michael Rosen: When fascism arrives as your friend…
• 

  11 June 2018

  To control all of us, blame ‘the other’ – foreigners, immigrants, refugees

Poetry

By Public Reading Rooms

Niall McDevitt: A Conservative Grimoire

By Adrian Mitchell

Adrian Mitchell: To Whom It May Concern (Tell Me Lies)

• 

  10 November 2018

  Have you forgotten yet? Aftermath by Siegfried Sassoon. Read by Jeremy Irons
• 

  9 November 2018

  Dick Lander by Charles Causley. Read by Heathcote Williams
• 

  4 November 2018

  Wilfred Owen | The old lie: dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori | Read by Sam West
• 

  12 October 2018

  The Tower of Babylon. 24 lines comemmorating the 24 storeys of Grenfell. By Niall McDevitt

Heathcote Williams

By Heathcote Williams

Boris Johnson: why the man with no moral compass is unfit for public office

By Heathcote Williams

God save us from the Queen and the fetishized DNA of her royal family

• 

  20 September 2018

  The reality behind bumbling, blustering ‘national treasure’ Boris Johnson
• 

  4 August 2018

  Celebrating Jeremy Corbyn’s favourite poet Shelley – a poet for the many not the few
• 

  21 July 2018

  Fake News and Trump the orange Fuhrer making America great again
• 

  5 July 2018

  What they don’t tell us about Winston Churchill: Great Britain’s Greatest Beast

Steve Ashley

Steve Ashley

By Public Reading Rooms

One More Thing ‘vital’ new album by Steve Ashley: Dare to question all you see…

Music and Politics

By Steve Ashley

Another Day (for Jeremy Corbyn)

Jeremy Corbyn

By Steve Ashley

Jeremy Corbyn and Trident nuclear ships of shame

Julian Assange

By John Wight

The slow motion execution of Julian Assange

By James O Neill

“No one is above the law,” says Theresa May. She just has to be kidding

• 

  17 April 2019

  Weapons of mass distraction: what isn’t being reported about Julian Assange
• 

  13 April 2019

  Why the seven years of lies about Julian Assange will not stop now
• 

  11 April 2019

  The crucifixion of Julian Assange, arrested 11 April 2019: ‘Never send to know for whom the bell tolls’
• 

  1 January 2019

  Why Julian Assange should be thanked – not smeared – for Wikileaks’ service to journalism
• 

  17 December 2018

  The killing of Julian Assange’s reputation is as good as killing him with a bullet in the head
• 

  8 December 2018

  Hold the front page for the Propaganda Blitz – how the corporate media distort reality