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George Galloway has been elected as a member of parliament for four separate constituencies – with only Winston Churchill beating him. Perhaps more remarkably still, he won on three of those occasions while not being a member of a major political party. Most recently he became the MP for Rochdale, in the north of England. […]

How do mainstream politicians and pundits contribute to the normalisation of far-right ideas, even as they claim to reject racism and populism? That’s one of many vital questions asked by Aaron Winter and Aurelien Mondon in their book, Reactionary Democracy. Following ACFM’s recent Trip about Fascism, Keir and Jem speak to Aaron and Aurelien about […]

Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani discuss Tories’ thrashing in local elections. Plus: The Greens make commendable gains; and a Labour source blames an election defeat on Hamas.

According to all polls, the Conservatives are facing electoral armageddon in the next general election. In this week’s locals, the picture isn’t much rosier, with initial results indicating the Tories are haemorrhaging seats (although some key mayoral contests, yet to be announced, could help save a modicum of face).  It is difficult to divorce these […]

Police have arrested hundreds of Palestine protestors at a UCLA encampment. Plus: a south London immigration raid has been blocked by the community; and Labour have diluted yet another policy offer. With Moya Lothian-McLean and  @NoJusticeMTG 

Dozens of people blocked a coach in south London to stop it from taking asylum seekers to the Bibby Stockholm “prison” barge against their will on Thursday morning. Activists gathered outside a hotel in Peckham from 7.30am to prevent the removal of eight people who have been living at the hotel for three to nine […]

In the ’00s, animal rights protestors nearly won their battle to ban vivisection in the UK, shutting down multiple breeding farms that were supplying laboratories with cats, dogs and guinea pigs. But at the last moment, the government made a dramatic U-turn, blocking the attempt to shut down Huntingdon Life Sciences and throwing activists in […]

On Monday evening, I interviewed MP for Rochdale, and leader of the Workers Party of Britain, George Galloway. That same day, Galloway announced that his new party would stand hundreds of candidates at the next general election. On Tuesday morning, and with typical bravura, Galloway made more headlines – tearing Richard Madeley and Susanna Reid […]

Protests against the war in Gaza at US College campuses have been met with a crackdown by law enforcement and violence from a pro-Israel mob. Plus: Jamie Driscoll joins the show live ahead of the North East mayoral election. With Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial.

Hurray hurray, the first of May, the holiday that comes from below. The festival marks the start of spring, and since the 1880s, demands from the labour movement for an eight-hour day. Rather than seeing these as two separate histories – the maypole and the strike – May Day reminds us that the struggle to […]