Tag: democracy
A Jubilee, or a mask for anarchy?
Once the Jubilee bunting has gone to landfill, the British monarchy will have to face many awkward questions - including its role in colonialism and the slave trade. At root, however, is the issue of democracy, say Phil Vellender and Steve Freeman
Democracy – you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. . .
Three changes to the law last week mean democracy in the UK is now hanging by a thread, says Don Flynn
Changing whose history?
Andy Gregg welcomes the acquittal of the Colston Four, finding double standards at the heart of Tory culture wars and planned attacks on judicial rights
What would Orwell say?
Socialists must be unequivocal in their defence of democracy against authoritarianism, says Bryn Jones, who looks at parallels between the Spanish Civil War and Putin’s war on Ukraine
Civil liberties under fire
Peers block right-wing dog-whistling on right to protest, writes Peter Hain
Tories plan more curbs on union rights
Don Flynn explains the new threat to trade unions and their role in fighting the undemocratic Elections Bill
Parliamentary gravy train
Prem Sikka on the scandal of MPs' second jobs and government complicity
Unlocking Labour
Stuart Hill on the unfinished business of Charter 88
Big picture politics
Andy Burnham argues that levelling up demands radical democratic reform
PR must be new normal
Mark Serwotka says government mishandling of the pandemic underlines the case for electoral reform
PCSC bill passes second reading in the midst of a police fiasco
When the power to determine what is in the public interest is claimed as the exclusive right of police forces, we need to be really worried, says Don Flynn