Ditching Net Zero

Badenoch ignored Tory opinion research when she abandoned net zero. Why? asks Dave Toke? As we all know, Kemi Badenoch has broken with the policy...

A railway fit for Britain’s future?

Paul Salveson is cautiously optimistic on government plans The Government has been consulting on “a railway fit for Britain’s future” (see last Chartist), and the...

Our International History – 14

Frances Wright: American Owenite Utopian Frances Wright, often referred to as Fanny Wright, was born in Dundee. Brought up in a radical family, she visited...

A railway fit for Britain’s future?

Paul Salveson is cautiously optimistic on government plans The Government has been consulting on “a railway fit for Britain’s future” (see last Chartist), and the...

Our International History – 14

Frances Wright: American Owenite Utopian Frances Wright, often referred to as Fanny Wright, was born in Dundee. Brought up in a radical family, she visited...

Editorial

Editorial 334

Resisting a Trump world Trump’s tariff war, ultra-protectionism and assault on democracy is turning the world upside down. Coupled with a reactionary international politics the world is shifting...

Between two powers

Christopher Ford looks at Trump-Putin Axis of reaction busy setting the ground for betrayal while Europe toys with a  partition plan leaving Ukraine under...

Cyprus settlement?

Mary Southcott says Cyprus could be settled this year if Turkey agrees  Rosemary DiCarlo, Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations for Political Affairs was...

Misreading Russia

Bryn Jones and Julie Ward on Ukraine, Jeffrey Sachs and the benign dismissal of authoritarian expansion On 19th February the noted US development economist, Jeffrey...

Dicing with Democracy

Glyn Ford on the dangers of voter suppression and a flawed IPPR report proposing ways to make voting easier with an extended electorate. Both Parties...

Uxbridge not a bellwether

In the wake of the Uxbridge by-election Bryn Jones says Labour’s wobbling on green policies will not win it any votes

Driscoll affair echoes Livingstone

Will Jamie Driscoll’s departure be a repeat of the Livingstone London mayor fiasco? asks Trevor Fisher

Labour’s National Policy Forum must back proportional representation

The vast majority of CLPs support it, as do two-thirds of affiliated trade unions. So, will the NPF accept the case for PR? Maximilian Czekalski explains why it should

No time to stay silent

Margaret Owen asks why Starmer is ignoring the obvious ways to win the women’s vote

After Globalism

Bryn Jones on the future of Europe Taking Back Control? States and State Systems After Globalism by Wolfgang Streeck published by Verso As an eminent sociologist...

OUR INTERNATIONAL HISTORY 13

American Forerunners of Marx: Langton Byllesby and Thomas Skidmore Langton Byllesby was an American follower of Robert Owen. Born in Philadelphia in 1789, he worked...

Revolution and Self-Management

Andrew Coates on Pabloism The well- dressed revolutionary: The Odyssey of Michel Pablo in the age of uprisings by Hall Greenland published by Resistance Books.  “Michel...

Water needs public participatory control

Clive Lewis MP on why MPs should back his Bill to transform the water industry and end the scandal of price rip-offs, sewage pollution...