Tories

The Tories and academies: a coup against democracy

As the Tories plan to turn every school into an academy, Alastair Stephens takes a look at the motives behind the drive
Parliament and people power: the left and the movements after the demonstration

As the Tories' trauma continues, Chris Nineham sketches out a strategy for radical change
The Tories' crisis is our opportunity

The tide is turning against austerity. How can we take advantage of the Tories’ crisis?
Keeping it on the streets

Jack Sherwood looks at the focus and purpose of the People’s Assembly national demonstration on 16 April
EU referendum: how did we get here?

The Tories are in trouble – and it will get worse for them if the referendum delivers a vote to leave the EU, writes Alex Snowdon
Sheffield shines a light on Tory lies and hype

A 'Northern Powerhouse or Northern Poorhouse' demonstration converged on Sheffield last Saturday, Jon Moorcroft reports
Thousands march calling for Cameron to resign

In response to the largest exposé of tax evasion in history, the British public have taken to the streets calling for David Cameron's resignation
Tory crisis: a class moment for the left

If the left fails to make headway in the coming ten weeks, it will be because we fail to be as radical as reality itself, writes Kevin Ovenden
The EU: ratcheting up racism

As the EU referendum draws closer, and the Tories split further, Chris Bambery looks at why the debate is not the orgy of racism that so many predicted
Corbyn's role and the Tories' crisis

It was Corbynism and the mass movements that have shaped British politics more than the commentariat care to admit
Tories in a mess: we can bring this government down

After the worst week for the government so far, Alex Snowdon looks at the wider crisis of the Conservatives
Big mobilisation against the Housing Bill

Today's demonstration shows that resistance against the Tories' housing policy is growing, writes Alastair Stephens
Sticker Campaign: Sticking it to the Tories

#StickItToTheTories is a Britain-wide sticker distribution campaign supported by the People's Assembly
Not without a fight: inspiring rally defends junior doctors

The People’s Assembly hosted a defiant and inspiring rally in support of the junior doctors, reports Cameron Panting
The Tories’ civil war: why do they do it to themselves?

The Tories' brewing civil war over Europe is not the first to divide the party
A junior doctor: Why we must stand firm

Junior doctor Mona Kamal explains why it's vital that doctors keep up their action, and why the public needs to rally to their defence
The Tories tear up social housing

The Tories want to end social housing in this country, writes Cameron Panting
Stock markets plunge: there may be trouble ahead

As stock markets tumble again, the recovery Osborne was boasting about rests on shaky foundations
Junior doctors strike again: Health Secretary torpedos last minute deal

As junior doctors strike across the country, Mark Tyers reports from Sunderland
Junior doctors' strike live!

Live reports, photos and videos from the junior doctors strike
Junior doctors: they thought we would be easy targets - podcast

Junior doctor Mona Kamal argues that the government is attacking doctors as a means to further undermine the NHS
The restoration of the house of Murdoch

As Rupert Murdoch's son gets appointed as Chairman of BSkyB, Des Freedman takes a look at the ethics of the media industry as a whole
Cameron fans the flames of Islamophobia

David Cameron's attacks on Muslim women come within the context of rising Islamophobia across the world, writes Lindsey German
We are striking for patients, not against them

The Royal London Hospital was today host to the first junior doctor strike in 40 years, after the British Medical Association failed to reach an agreement with the government, reports Callum Thomas
A troubled relationship: the UK and the EU

Chris Bambery takes a look at the UK's troubled relationship with the EU, both in the past and in the present
What you can do for the junior doctors

Junior doctor Mona Kamal calls for support for the upcoming strikes and the demonstration organised by student nurses this Saturday. Only a united strategy will be effective
Political-media elite celebrate a successful year

As the political and media establisment cosy up for Christmas drinks, Des Freedman takes a look at a successful year for Murdoch & Co
How the left can move forward in 2016

As a tumultuous year in British politics comes to an end, Alex Snowdon takes a look at the implications for the year ahead
How to Dismantle the NHS in Ten Easy Steps

The extent of the threat to the NHS is revealed in clear, concise detail in El-Gingihy’s short book, finds Cameron Panting
NHS For Sale: Myths, Lies and Deception

The NHS is being privatised behind the backs of the public, as NHS for Sale shows, and we must make this central to the fight against austerity, argues Joanne Land
Housing for need not for greed

Social housing is no longer an option for all but a handful, writes Alastair Stephens
Anti-union bill is an attack on us all

The Tories are planning the biggest assault on rights at work since the 1980s. Peter Stauber spoke to Richard Allday of Unite the Union’s National Executive Committee about the new legislation
Stay in the streets

The movement outside of Parliament is critical. This government can – and will – be defeated. But it will need all of us to work for it
Massive protest across Manchester against the Tory cuts

Protests in Manchester over several days created a sense of a Tory conference under permanent siege writes Chris Nineham
David Cameron and the rituals of the rich

The rituals and secret-keeping of Britain’s privately educated elites are a cornerstone of Conservative Party unity
Stop the secret British bombing of Syria

Stop the War statement demands the government publicly commits to an immediate end to British bombing of Syria
New anti-union laws: Tory class hatred and hypocrisy

The latest anti-union proposals from Cameron’s cabinet show the naked class hatred of democracy that lies at the heart of the Tory party writes Richard Allday
Starvation and austerity: the price of Britain's military spending

Look at what could be done with the £37 billion Britain spends annually on its military and foreign wars
Counter-extremism or full spectrum idiocy?

The government’s ‘counter-extremism’ crackdown won't reduce the threat, and is more likely to increase marginalization of British Muslims and the alienation that groups like Isis attempt to feed on argues Matt Carr
Lies, damned lies, and austerity

Even IMF research now warns against imposing austerity on the UK, yet our political mainstream and the media agree it is necessary. Why is this?
On Saturday we became a movement - now we must organise to defeat the government

Saturday's march demonstrated that the People's Assembly is now a genuine mass movement, now we have to take it to a higher stage writes Lindsey German
This is only the beginning

The massive End Austerity Now demonstration must be a springboard for more activity, locally and nationally
David Cameron: scapegoating Muslims to hide failure at home and abroad

Western governments try to justify their failure to secure the Middle East militarily by blaming the Muslim community as a whole
The Tories won't listen. Should we bother protesting?

The bigger the turnout the better, as people who may otherwise feel disillusioned and powerless suddenly feel significant – they have agency
Uprising against austerity

The Tories know they lack legitimacy and risk soon becoming a lame-duck administration. We must work to create an immense political crisis
How Labour lost

With both main parties retrenching their commitment to austerity, the crisis of representation will be met, for now, outside of Parliament argues James Meadway
Five more reasons to join the People's Assembly End Austerity Now demo

More reasons to join the national End Austerity Now demonstration on June 20 by People's Assembly organising committee member John Rees
Bully for Cameron – or why the Tories are natural bullies!

A government that got the votes of just 25% of the elctorate wants workers to jump through yet more hoops before being able to take lawful industrial action writes Richard Allday
Our aspiration: a united resistance to the Tories

The Tories don't have the support to carry through unpopular policies - we have to build a huge movement against them argues Lindsey German
Six reasons why you wouldn't want to be George Osbourne right now

The Tory election victory has lobbed Osborne a number of economic hand-grenades argues James Meadway
Will the Tories take Britain to war?

The call is already being made for David Cameron's new government to 'restore Britain's global power' in its foreign policy
Phoenix time

John Rees looks at what can rise from the ashes of the election
Losing your home: explaining the Coalition's eviction epidemic

The Tory war on welfare is implicated in the growing numbers of evictions finds Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi in the third part of her investigation into housing in Coalition Britain
The gamble of the dying

David Cameron and his friends are playing up the 'threat' from the SNP. This gamble may yet buy them a few seats - but at the expense of their own future writes James Meadway
Election scenarios: the crisis of British politics

This is a whole new chapter in politics, for the British political system is in a state of deep crisis writes Alastair Stephens
Establishment campaign to subvert the next government has already begun

The establishment's anti-SNP hysteria is aimed at the post election world - they want to nip in the bud any chance of real change
May's extremism - targeting Muslims in the name of 'British values'

Attacked for their faith, their dress, their schools, their university societies and their politics, UK Muslims are scapegoated on a daily basis
Zero inflation: the good news and the bad news

After the longest sustained decline in living standards since the Industrial Revolution, average wages are finally rising faster than prices - no thanks to Tory policies
Cameron’s Free School scam

Cameron’s announcement of 500 free schools was a blatant attempt to take the focus off his cuts to education argues John Westmoreland
The Government is blaming Muslims and attacking civil liberties

Opposition to war, Islamophobia and attacks on civil liberties are all connected, says Lindsey German, and we have to campaign against all three
Welcome to dodgy Dave’s second-hand democracy sale!

Richard Allday responds to the latest Tory attacks on democracy, from curtailing trade union rights to eroding the powers of local authorities
Why you should join the march for homes

Protests will converge on London Mayor Boris Johnson's HQ on 31^st January in a rapidly growing campaign demanding action on the housing crisis writes Sarah Hatch
Prisons in meltdown

Tory policy is leading to a growing crisis in UK prisons reports Peter Stauber
5 things you need to know about Osborne's Autumn Statement

James Meadway gets behind the spin with five insights about Osborne's Autumn statement
Will George Osborne make austerity the law?

George Osborne is considering introducing reduction of the budget deficit into law - constraining the ability of a future government to break with a failed policy
The return of the Party member?

The membership of mainstream parties is plummeting, but people are joining parties if they look as if they are going to take on the elite, argues John Rees
Tory prisons policy produces results: suicide, murder, despair

Clare Sambrook reports on the devastating impact of the coalition government's ideological pursuit of ‘proper punishment’
No, Channel 4, the rich getting richer doesn’t help the poor

Adam Tomes challenges the right-wing myths peddled by Spectator editor Fraser Nelson in his Dispatches program
Rochester by-election: more Ukip woes for all?

As the by-election caused by the defection of Conservative MP Mark Reckless to Ukip approaches, Alastair Stephens sees some unsettled political weather ahead
Tower Hamlets: it's the establishment versus the people

Following the British establishment's undemocratic attempt to undermine the twice-elected mayor of Tower Hamlets it's clear whose side we should be on argues Reuben Bard-Rosenberg
Austerity isn't working, and here's why

James Meadway: you can’t have consistently rising debts, and consistently falling incomes. The two must collide at some point. That means a crisis
Mutual Defence Agreement: Cameron plans secret renewal of nuclear cooperation with US

David Cameron is due to secretly renew the Mutual Defence Agreement (MDA) on nuclear cooperation between the US and the UK writes Ellen Graubart
Turning back Ukip - some ideas for the movement

John Westmoreland concludes his series with eight ideas for halting Ukip’s surge and rebuilding the movement
Hate preacher: Theresa May and the demonisation of British Muslims

Theresa May’s address to the Conservative Party conference typified this government’s Islamophobia says Conan Doyle
Cameron’s tax cuts: a poorly disguised handout for the rich

David Cameron's 'middle-class tax giveaway' in reality means giving huge amounts of cash to the very richest argues James Meadway
Cassetteboy's latest video: Cameron's conference rap

Based on David Cameron's speeches, this video by Cassetteboy accurately sums up Conservative policy - contains swearing
Children's health - a casualty in Osborne's war on the poor

As George Osborne promises fresh hardship for the working poor, Prof Michael Marmot and Dr Angela Donkin look at the impact of growing inequality on child health
The crisis of the British regime: democracy, protest and the unions

The British political regime faces a crisis of confidence. This report presents empirical evidence for the democratic deficit, growing protest, the state of the trade unions and the strategic implications for the left
Theresa May and the Tories: relics without solutions

The moralistic backlash from the Con-Dems and the media has begun in earnest. Jonathon Shafi takes on the reactionary critics, with reference to a challenging BBC interview with influential commentator Darcus Howe.

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As the Tories plan to turn every school into an academy, Alastair Stephens takes a look at the motives behind the drive

As the Tories' trauma continues, Chris Nineham sketches out a strategy for radical change

The tide is turning against austerity. How can we take advantage of the Tories’ crisis?

Jack Sherwood looks at the focus and purpose of the People’s Assembly national demonstration on 16 April

The Tories are in trouble – and it will get worse for them if the referendum delivers a vote to leave the EU, writes Alex Snowdon

A 'Northern Powerhouse or Northern Poorhouse' demonstration converged on Sheffield last Saturday, Jon Moorcroft reports

In response to the largest exposé of tax evasion in history, the British public have taken to the streets calling for David Cameron's resignation

If the left fails to make headway in the coming ten weeks, it will be because we fail to be as radical as reality itself, writes Kevin Ovenden

As the EU referendum draws closer, and the Tories split further, Chris Bambery looks at why the debate is not the orgy of racism that so many predicted

It was Corbynism and the mass movements that have shaped British politics more than the commentariat care to admit

After the worst week for the government so far, Alex Snowdon looks at the wider crisis of the Conservatives

Today's demonstration shows that resistance against the Tories' housing policy is growing, writes Alastair Stephens

#StickItToTheTories is a Britain-wide sticker distribution campaign supported by the People's Assembly

The People’s Assembly hosted a defiant and inspiring rally in support of the junior doctors, reports Cameron Panting

The Tories' brewing civil war over Europe is not the first to divide the party

Junior doctor Mona Kamal explains why it's vital that doctors keep up their action, and why the public needs to rally to their defence

The Tories want to end social housing in this country, writes Cameron Panting

As stock markets tumble again, the recovery Osborne was boasting about rests on shaky foundations

As junior doctors strike across the country, Mark Tyers reports from Sunderland

Live reports, photos and videos from the junior doctors strike

Junior doctor Mona Kamal argues that the government is attacking doctors as a means to further undermine the NHS

As Rupert Murdoch's son gets appointed as Chairman of BSkyB, Des Freedman takes a look at the ethics of the media industry as a whole

David Cameron's attacks on Muslim women come within the context of rising Islamophobia across the world, writes Lindsey German

The Royal London Hospital was today host to the first junior doctor strike in 40 years, after the British Medical Association failed to reach an agreement with the government, reports Callum Thomas

Chris Bambery takes a look at the UK's troubled relationship with the EU, both in the past and in the present

Junior doctor Mona Kamal calls for support for the upcoming strikes and the demonstration organised by student nurses this Saturday. Only a united strategy will be effective

As the political and media establisment cosy up for Christmas drinks, Des Freedman takes a look at a successful year for Murdoch & Co

As a tumultuous year in British politics comes to an end, Alex Snowdon takes a look at the implications for the year ahead

The extent of the threat to the NHS is revealed in clear, concise detail in El-Gingihy’s short book, finds Cameron Panting

The NHS is being privatised behind the backs of the public, as NHS for Sale shows, and we must make this central to the fight against austerity, argues Joanne Land

Social housing is no longer an option for all but a handful, writes Alastair Stephens

The Tories are planning the biggest assault on rights at work since the 1980s. Peter Stauber spoke to Richard Allday of Unite the Union’s National Executive Committee about the new legislation

The movement outside of Parliament is critical. This government can – and will – be defeated. But it will need all of us to work for it

Protests in Manchester over several days created a sense of a Tory conference under permanent siege writes Chris Nineham

The rituals and secret-keeping of Britain’s privately educated elites are a cornerstone of Conservative Party unity

Stop the War statement demands the government publicly commits to an immediate end to British bombing of Syria

The latest anti-union proposals from Cameron’s cabinet show the naked class hatred of democracy that lies at the heart of the Tory party writes Richard Allday

Look at what could be done with the £37 billion Britain spends annually on its military and foreign wars

The government’s ‘counter-extremism’ crackdown won't reduce the threat, and is more likely to increase marginalization of British Muslims and the alienation that groups like Isis attempt to feed on argues Matt Carr

Even IMF research now warns against imposing austerity on the UK, yet our political mainstream and the media agree it is necessary. Why is this?

Saturday's march demonstrated that the People's Assembly is now a genuine mass movement, now we have to take it to a higher stage writes Lindsey German

The massive End Austerity Now demonstration must be a springboard for more activity, locally and nationally

Western governments try to justify their failure to secure the Middle East militarily by blaming the Muslim community as a whole

The bigger the turnout the better, as people who may otherwise feel disillusioned and powerless suddenly feel significant – they have agency

The Tories know they lack legitimacy and risk soon becoming a lame-duck administration. We must work to create an immense political crisis

With both main parties retrenching their commitment to austerity, the crisis of representation will be met, for now, outside of Parliament argues James Meadway

More reasons to join the national End Austerity Now demonstration on June 20 by People's Assembly organising committee member John Rees

A government that got the votes of just 25% of the elctorate wants workers to jump through yet more hoops before being able to take lawful industrial action writes Richard Allday

The Tories don't have the support to carry through unpopular policies - we have to build a huge movement against them argues Lindsey German

The Tory election victory has lobbed Osborne a number of economic hand-grenades argues James Meadway

The call is already being made for David Cameron's new government to 'restore Britain's global power' in its foreign policy

John Rees looks at what can rise from the ashes of the election

The Tory war on welfare is implicated in the growing numbers of evictions finds Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi in the third part of her investigation into housing in Coalition Britain

David Cameron and his friends are playing up the 'threat' from the SNP. This gamble may yet buy them a few seats - but at the expense of their own future writes James Meadway

This is a whole new chapter in politics, for the British political system is in a state of deep crisis writes Alastair Stephens

The establishment's anti-SNP hysteria is aimed at the post election world - they want to nip in the bud any chance of real change

Attacked for their faith, their dress, their schools, their university societies and their politics, UK Muslims are scapegoated on a daily basis

After the longest sustained decline in living standards since the Industrial Revolution, average wages are finally rising faster than prices - no thanks to Tory policies

Cameron’s announcement of 500 free schools was a blatant attempt to take the focus off his cuts to education argues John Westmoreland

Opposition to war, Islamophobia and attacks on civil liberties are all connected, says Lindsey German, and we have to campaign against all three

Richard Allday responds to the latest Tory attacks on democracy, from curtailing trade union rights to eroding the powers of local authorities

Protests will converge on London Mayor Boris Johnson's HQ on 31st January in a rapidly growing campaign demanding action on the housing crisis writes Sarah Hatch

Tory policy is leading to a growing crisis in UK prisons reports Peter Stauber

James Meadway gets behind the spin with five insights about Osborne's Autumn statement

George Osborne is considering introducing reduction of the budget deficit into law - constraining the ability of a future government to break with a failed policy

The membership of mainstream parties is plummeting, but people are joining parties if they look as if they are going to take on the elite, argues John Rees

Clare Sambrook reports on the devastating impact of the coalition government's ideological pursuit of ‘proper punishment’

Adam Tomes challenges the right-wing myths peddled by Spectator editor Fraser Nelson in his Dispatches program

As the by-election caused by the defection of Conservative MP Mark Reckless to Ukip approaches, Alastair Stephens sees some unsettled political weather ahead

Following the British establishment's undemocratic attempt to undermine the twice-elected mayor of Tower Hamlets it's clear whose side we should be on argues Reuben Bard-Rosenberg

James Meadway: you can’t have consistently rising debts, and consistently falling incomes. The two must collide at some point. That means a crisis

David Cameron is due to secretly renew the Mutual Defence Agreement (MDA) on nuclear cooperation between the US and the UK writes Ellen Graubart

John Westmoreland concludes his series with eight ideas for halting Ukip’s surge and rebuilding the movement

Theresa May’s address to the Conservative Party conference typified this government’s Islamophobia says Conan Doyle

Protests will converge on London Mayor Boris Johnson's HQ on 31^st January in a rapidly growing campaign demanding action on the housing crisis writes Sarah Hatch