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Boris Johnson: is the piglet out of grease?

Posted on 11th April 2022 by Richard Donnelly

Boris Johnson’s days as Britain’s prime minister appeared numbered as this journal neared publication. Indeed, until the moment on 24 February when Russia invaded Ukraine, Johnson seemed incapable of much more than clinging on while lurching from one crisis to… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Boris Johnson, corruption, Tories

A triple crisis

Posted on 6th July 2020 by Richard Donnelly

Marx says that revolutions are the locomotive of world history. But perhaps it is quite otherwise. Perhaps revolutions are an attempt by the passengers on this train—namely, the human race—to activate the emergency brake. Walter Benjamin, 1940, Notes for “On… Continue Reading →

Analysis coronavirus, Ecology, Health, Labour Party, The Economic Crisis, The United States, Tories

Corbyn justified, May humbled—the left advances

Posted on 19th June 2017 by Camilla

The extraordinary British general election of 8 June 2017—held amid the echoes of police gunfire on London Bridge—showed that the forces destabilising the advanced capitalist societies since the global economic and financial crisis that broke out nearly a decade ago… Continue Reading →

Analysis Labour Party, Tories

David Cameron’s cunning plan goes awry

Posted on 16th June 2016 by Camilla

They say timing is all in politics. Well, sometimes timing in publications is hell. International Socialism’s schedule means that we had go to press before the referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union took place on 23 June. Moreover,… Continue Reading →

Analysis David Cameron, European Union, Tories

Can the Tories abolish the welfare state?

Posted on 9th January 2014 by ISJ

There is a scene in The Spirit of ‘45, director Ken Loach’s documentary about the achievements of the 1945-51 Labour government in Britain, where a general practitioner tells of visiting a poor family where a child was very ill with… Continue Reading →

Analysis Tories, Welfare state

The enemy’s enemy: Disraeli and working class leadership

Posted on 9th January 2013 by ISJ

At the most recent Labour Party conference party leader Ed Miliband caused a certain amount of consternation by praising Benjamin Disraeli (Tory prime minister 1868 and 1874-80), and repeatedly using Disraeli’s most famous phrase “One Nation”.1 Just to make sure… Continue Reading →

Analysis Tories, Working class

The Tories: An anatomy

Posted on 28th June 2011 by ISJ

After 13 years of exile the Conservative Party has returned to office, but weaker than ever and dependent on a coalition with the Liberals. Amid a global crisis, with a weak incumbent and against a widely disliked government, the Tories… Continue Reading →

Analysis Tories

The Tories, Eton and private schools

Posted on 5th April 2011 by ISJ

One of the most striking features of the new government is the dominance within its ranks of individuals showing every sign of class privilege. The Sunday Times reports that 18 of the 23 full-time members of the cabinet are millionaires,… Continue Reading →

Analysis Tories

Britain’s resurgent Tories

Posted on 24th June 2008 by ISJ

The Tories were crowing after May’s local elections and the Crewe & Nantwich parliamentary by-election. With 44 percent of the local election vote, victory in the London mayoral election and a 17.6 percent swing away from Labour to take Crewe… Continue Reading →

Analysis Tories
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