UK elections

AV is not perfect, but we need it for plurality

April 2011

The first-past-the-post voting system in the UK has led to the slow death of a critical political culture. Saying yes in the referendum on a proposed Alternative Voting (AV) system would at least give oxygen to debate.

The Lib Dems won't deliver reform - Mike Marqusee on the UK election media hype

May 2010

Pre-election calls for a Lib Dem vote in the UK demonstrated how effectively misled some were by the mass media inflation of the yellow prospects for reform. Fluctuating left and right according to audience, the Lib Dems will continue with neoloberal economics, the war on terror, police-power abuses and cuts to public services.

Operation Muslim Vote

November 2005
Naima Bouteldja

There is a spectre haunting the British General Election: "the spectre of the 'Muslim vote".