Editorial

It was minutes after the polls closed in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election on 8 November, well before results were announced, that the capitalist establishment’s assault on Green Party leader Zack Polanski took a step up.

The first parliamentary test for the so-called ‘Burnham bounce’, in Holborn and St Pancras on 8 October, is likely to be as favourable a terrain as the new prime minister will ever face.

A brutal daylight knife attack on two Jewish men in Golders Green in north London on 29 April has raised fear for their safety among Jewish people living in Britain.

The stand of Socialist Party member Hugo Pierre for the mayor of Tower Hamlets, backed by seven other council candidates under the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition (TUSC) umbrella, is controversial.

The announcement by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana about a new party was always going to stir up the working class. However, I didn’t anticipate just how much and how fast interest in socialist politics would build. This is meant to be the quiet period of the year!

The current housing crisis is dire. 300,000 people are homeless and over a million families live in overcrowded homes. And that is just the tip of the iceberg.