Tag: Democracy

Cancelling elections is hardly anti-fascist

It is hard not to suspect that the real motive underlying the delays is the comp...

The failing Labour council leaders trying to put off an...

When local authorities with the most troubled records are the most eager to dela...

‘It’s undemocratic’: What it’s like to live under a cou...

Fury is growing in Chorley after Labour shelved local elections, a move resident...

Cometh the hour, cometh the Gen Z. Brave young people a...

From Iran to Ukraine to Israel, it is young people who are risking life and limb...

Four million denied a vote in attack on democracy

Tories and Reform UK accuse Starmer of ‘running scared’ as dozens of council ele...

Le Pen in court: The French right-wing veteran is fight...

The political heavyweight is seeking to overturn a five-year ban on holding office

Trump promises ‘help is on its way’ and tells Iranians ...

US president gives clearest signal yet that he might take military action agains...

Myanmar junta holds second phase of election widely dec...

UN and many western countries as well as human rights groups say that in the abs...

Twenty-two Labour councils set to delay local elections

Councils in favour of postponing election until next year are all in areas where...

Six dead in Iran after Tehran launches violent crackdow...

Riot squads open fire on demonstrators and carry out mass arrests on fifth day o...

Reform UK takes aim at Labour’s plan to delay local ele...

Farage’s party hopes to force Commons vote on bill ordering government to hold c...

Offline and silenced: Africa’s quiet rise of internet r...

Africa was hit by a record number of digital shutdowns in 2025 that stifled oppo...

Iranian boxing champion at imminent risk of execution a...

Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, 30, was arrested in 2020 for taking part in nationwi...

Eureka Stockade

3 December 1854