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Greens Destroy Labour And Reform in Historic By-election Result

Alison Banville — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:56:11 +0000

Owen Jones talks to Zach Polanski about his party’s unprecedented win.

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Russell Brand: What’s Really Going On?

Alison Banville — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 17:10:00 +0000

It’s fascinating to watch how easy it is for the corporate media’s institutional bias to successfully direct the dumb gaze of the sleepwalkers to its chosen angle so that the parameters of debate are squeezed and narrowed until they include only its own perspective. In this case it’s, ‘is Russell Brand a hypocrite?’

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BSNews at the Save Our Ticket Offices Rally

Alison Banville — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 17:56:59 +0000

The following article by BSN editor Alison Banville was published in The Morning Star. A few days ago I joined a large crowd gathered outside the Department of Transport in London. There were ornate union banners being held aloft proudly emblazoned with ‘Manchester RMT’, ‘Liverpool, Branch no 5 est. 1913’, ‘Wigan RMT’ and, most movingly for me as a girl […]

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The Labour Files: Where is Democracy? Mainstream Media Blackout.

Alison Banville — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 10:35:02 +0000

Corporate media silence as biggest leak in British political history reveals it’s implicated with politicians in a scandal of epic proportions. All hell should have broken loose in the last three days as Al Jazeera published in succession three videos of their investigation into leaks from inside the UK Labour Party. What these files reveal should be front page and […]

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Didn’t those enraged at Boris Johnson’s ‘smears’ of Starmer defame Corbyn at every turn?

Jonathan Cook — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 23:13:03 +0000

The media outrage at Johnson linking the Labour leader to Jimmy Savile is because his comments inadvertently exposed the dark underbelly of the British establishment

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Trucker’s Protest Canada: Some Thoughts by Cory Morningstar

Cory Morningstar — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 19:22:00 +0000

Truckers protest. Canada Resists. Ottawa, January 29, 2022. The mainstream headlines with “sightings” of Confederate flags (some articles actually state “a flag”, meaning a single sighting) is strategic. It paints Canada as an extension of the Trump “movement” in the United States. To incite disdain and hatred toward the Canadian working class. [Buried in the fine print, CBC, Jan 30, […]

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‘Set It All On Fire’: The Answer to Planetary Chaos is Closer Than You Think

Alison Banville — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 23:01:00 +0000

First published in New Dawn magazine: ‘Strange days indeed’ sang John Lennon, and one can only ‘imagine’ what a man at the forefront of creating positive planetary change in his day would have made of where we are now? Because these are indeed extraordinary times in which the very foundations of everything we collectively believed to be ‘how things are’ […]

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Chris Williamson Interviews Daniel Fooks

Alison Banville — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 21:45:37 +0000

Former Labour MP, Chris Williamson, who was suspended from the Labour Party after becoming the victim of an antisemitism smear, recently interviewed renowned artist Daniel Fooks at the Festival Of Resistance in Nottingham. They discuss, among other things, Fooks’ spat with Billy Bragg, Kier Starmer, and vaccine passports. A great watch.

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Being Jewish in North Islington Labour Party

Lynne Segal — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 09:17:45 +0000

Calling for Jeremy Corbyn’s reinstatement, Lynne Segal looks back on her experience of 40 years as a party member in his constituency It is with the heaviest of hearts that I have to write, yet again, about being a Jewish member of the Labour Party in Jeremy Corbyn’s constituency. So let me tell you at once that it has been terrible, almost […]

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Anarchism Without the Name: Lessons from the Town of Cherán

Samuel Clarke — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 09:14:55 +0000

IN A SMALL MEXICAN TOWN, LOCAL INDIGENOUS RESIDENTS HAVE CREATED A NEW, DEMOCRATIC, AND LARGELY PEACEFUL COMMUNITY. THE QUESTION, WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS? Murray Bookchin, in his seminal work in the field of social ecology, The Ecology of Freedom, criticised the tendency of history to focus upon the ‘achievement of power’, the empires with their ‘temples, mortuaries and palaces’ […]

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