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How to unseat a Tory MP
Richard House talks to ALEX McFADDEN about the successful Sack Esther McVey campaign of 2015 and the new campaign to unseat her in Tatton
Esther McVey
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
Richard House (RH): I think we all have a lot to learn about community organising and activism from the successful Sack Esther McVey Campaign that you spearheaded in the 2015 general election campaign. Can you tell us what you think were the decisive factors in your campaign’s success?
Alec McFadden (AM): The 2015 campaign to unseat McVey was fought on a number of fronts. First — and I’m speaking frankly here — there was the hatred local people felt towards her, particularly those with disabilities who had either lost their disability benefits or who’d had them reduced when McVey was the disability minister.
Next, there was the local TUC in Wirral, which organised against benefit sanctions.
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