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Isn't it usually the case that imperial exploitation abroad leads to a "golden age" of peace and tolerence domestically? Some comrades wrote this a while back about Jewish/Muslim relations particularly in the Cordoba Caliphate and the Ottoman Empire...

Here's a rundown of who the ultra-left sects are supporting in this election Communist Party Britain - Labour Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist Leninist) - Abstain (but would be happy to see Corbyn elected PM to disillusion the millions who are pinning their hopes on him) Revolutionary...

This is very bad history. The roots of current reactionary interpretations of Islam and violence perpetrated by their adherents are very firmly rooted in the twentieth century and largely spread by colonial and neocolonial realpolitik. It's not Islam that needs civilising but...

I'm in London and don't feel unsafe. I could have quite easily been in London Bridge on Saturday - a couple of mates who'd invited me for a drink and got evacuated round there. You just get on with it tbh. I worry more about my mates getting killed cycling than by terrorists. Whatever terror...

You're forgetting how London (and now Manchester) centric our media is. ISIS could probably establish a caliphate in Daventry and it would only get a two minute piece at the arse end of BBC news. And without the massive media reaction, the terrorism loses a lot of its impact. A couple of...

ISIS: "we have struck a blow to the infidel in the heart of their depravity - Greenbridge Retail Park, just off the A419. Let your leaders know until your people embrace Islam, Frankie and Benny's everywhere will be a target"

Wondering what MI5 and the cops (and her party) are playing at tbh. You'd think whatever they thought they'd hold their fire until the 9th. I can only guess that they're confident the Tories will retain power and want May's position to become untenable - either for political advantage or to...

What is Corbyn's stance on Islamic extremism? In Syria, he's drawn an awful amount of flack for his support (or perceived support) for the secular government and the Assad regime, as they've battled a Syrian opposition largely made up of Salafist jihadi groups. In Libya he opposed support for...

Oh hai it's a couple of long posts by me where I write about the stated motivations of Islamic terrorists. Keep this nonsense up if you insist but you're chatting absolute shit. http://www.onefootballforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/explosion-at-manchester-arena.15219/page-5#post-618764...

You're spouting nonsense about things no-one is saying. I think everyone wants to live in a society where these acts of terrorism can't happen. But the right-wing, security state, us-versus-them response is not making "us" any safer particularly when coupled with a foreign policy that has an...

What is the purpose of terrorism? I'm asking in general - rather than related to this or to Muslims. And I'm specifically restricting discussion to attacks on civilians rather than guerrilla attacks on infrastructure or military targets. I would argue it's twofold. The first (and simplest)...

Conventional political wisdom has you repeat a soundbite over and over again until the electorate get it into their thick skulls that you're both strong and stable and vote for you. But Corbyn has done as well as he has by treating people basically like adults able to understand a degree of...

Corbyn secures the endorsement of Kerrang!

Probably gonna vote Labour lads, largely cos I'll have to go to the polling station anyway to do a proxy vote. Just handing in my anarchist card to the anarchy cops.

There'll never be formal coalition - though I'd anticipate some sort of confidence and supply arrangement if there's a hung parliament.

See The Economist has declined to endorse Theresa May and endorsed the Lib Dems. Apart from endorsing Tony Blair in 2001 and 2005, they've an unbroken record of supporting conservatives back to 1964.

£10p/h minimum wage by 2020 isn't particularly radical - the Tories are/(were?) planning to increase their "National Living Wage (not actually the Living Wage)" to £9p/h by 2020

oh no http://www.johnleech.org.uk/labour_thugs

Rees Mogg's an absolute scumbag. http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2013/08/09/jacob-rees-mogg-tries-to-limit-the-damage-after-speech-to-fa He's not the only Conservative figure with links to fascist supper clubs (Liam Fox and Owen Paterson have done similar) but he's the only one who did it after...

There's a reason that Corbyn energised the Labour selectorate and won two stonking victories: he's a very competent campaigner. He's charismatic and likeable. He seems to genuinely like meeting people. I think part of the reason for labour's resurgence is the difference between the calm...