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We want change, Gavin Shuker!
MARKUS KEANEY on why the MP for Luton South faced a vote of no confidence from his own constituents
Gavin Shuker at his 2010 election
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
IN September 2015, and buoyed by the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader, Luton South, along with constituencies the length and breadth of the country, saw its membership swelled with passionate new members enthused by the promise of a break from neoliberalism, and passionate about a party returning to its roots.
Those new members who accepted the invitation of local Labour and Co-operative MP Gavin Shuker to a reception in the House of Commons were earnestly informed by him that “I think I can best serve Jeremy from the back benches.”
However, it became immediately apparent that Shuker’s idea of co-operation encompassed briefing the local press to undermine the incoming administration from day one by setting a negative news agenda.
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