Salman Shaheen
When Ken Loach launched an appeal to discuss founding a new party to the left of Labour in March, it sparked a wave of enthusiasm. Within a few weeks, more than 8,000 people signed up and around 100 local groups were established across the country. It isn’t hard to see …
On Saturday, a hundred people descended on a London hotel because they wanted to change the world. Like many, I went along to Left Unity’s first national meeting full of hope, but also dread. Because the path to that room was littered with the decaying corpses of a dozen other …
After an exciting, and at times tense, first national meeting of Left Unity, which brought together representatives from many of the local groups around the country, I was elected alongside nine others to serve on the National Coordinating Group with just over 61% of the vote. Having spectacularly failed to …
I was honoured to chair last night’s IF Campaign debate with David Gauke, the Conservative Exchequer Secretary, Catherine McKinnell, Labour’s Shadow Exchequer Secretary, and Stephen Williams, Co-Chair of the Liberal Democrat Treasury Committee. The debate threw up a lot of interesting questions around tax and transparency and Britain’s crucial role …
My editorial from the May issue of International Tax Review. The leaders of eight of the world’s wealthiest nations will meet on …
Whether you’re turning merrily around a pole or turning the capitalist order upside down, I bid you greetings and send you solidarity …
Britain has placed tax avoidance at the centre of the global agenda as it prepares to host the G8 summit in June. …
It’s a curious irony that with the death of Margaret Thatcher and the release of Ken Loach’s The Spirit of ’45, the …
Squashed beneath the seat of a train bound for Karachi, a frightened young boy hides in the hot dark from armed men …
My editorial from the April issue of International Tax Review. The annual circus of jibes, justifications and recriminations visited Britain again last …