For three years in a row, Britain has been seized by summertime racist rioting. Islamophobes and nationalists seem to have laid claim to UK streets for the months of June through September. But this is not without precedent: summer has always been high time for bigots and diehard patriots.
Hanson is making no attempt to sanitise her politics for the sake of broad appeal. On the contrary, she is hardening her political positions, becoming more unapologetically fascistic, and encouraging her supporters to follow.
The recent electoral deluge that resulted in Reform gaining more than 1,450 seats across Britain’s local councils was a devastating advance for the party’s momentum. But it was not unexpected.
The 1926 British general strike is best known as one of history’s most excruciating betrayals. For those seeking to understand the frequently treacherous actions of modern union officials, the story remains an important one to study and remember.
Because of militant miners, the 1970s and 1980s in Britain are remembered not only as decades when the capitalist state attacked trade unions and working-class people. They are also memorialised as an era of defiant, tenacious and bitter class struggle, full of lessons.
