Keir’s warm welcome

Victor Anderson questions the logic of going for growth via deregulation whilst supporting tighter regulation on building construction and water provision Keir Starmer gave a...

Ukraine must win

Christopher Ford says Ukraine must still win no matter who becomes American President The Cost of War After one-thousand days of Russia’s full-scale invasion the costs...

Uncovering corporate power

Mike Davis on a searing indictment Vulture Capitalism by Grace Blakeley published Bloomsbury Subtitled, “Corporate crimes, backdoor bailouts and the death of freedom” this book is...

An alternative to neo-liberal capitalism?

Hugh Gault on economic power in the USThe Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society by Joseph Stiglitz published by Allen Lane Well-known for...

Our International History 10

Flora Tristan and Jeanne Deroin: Socialist Feminists Flora Tristan was born in Paris in 1803, her father being a colonel in the Spanish navy and...

A new dawn or a dark age?

Editorial - Issue 331 Dark clouds are gathering. Authoritarians using dictatorial methods rule in some of the most populous countries of the world, namely Russia, China and India....

Modi constrained

Kabul Sandu says Modi is weakened but far from down Narendra Modi is one of several strongmen currently seen around the globe, democratically elected, who...

Left block Le Pen’s far right

Andrew Coates welcomes the victory of the left alliance in recent French elections but sees President Macron continue to manoeuvre After snap legislative elections in...

What has gone wrong with Brexit?

Philip Gough  on the fantasies and realities It can be argued that the UK’s exit from the EU happened by accident. Feeling threatened by UKIP...

Don’t forget the politics

Post Labour conference Victor Anderson posts a message for the prime minister Keir Starmer at the conference reinforced the impression he has given consistently for...
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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

An East End shootout

Duncan Bowie on anarchists in London A Devilish Kind of Courage by Andrew Whitehead published by Reaktion Books The story of the Houndsditch murders and the...

From Maidan to War

Duncan Bowie on a different Ukrainian Perspective Towards the Abyss by Volodymyr Ishchenko published by Verso  This is a rare political analysis  by a Soviet Ukrainian....

Greening Britain

David Toke on Labour and Green Party steps forward and back The wind industry has curtly rejected the opposition of the Green Party of England...

Sexual assault and what’s wrong with Parliament

Sexual assault and Parliament