Under the Trump boot

Glyn Ford says the era of Unequal Treaties is back Almost paralleling the reign of Victoria (1837-1901) was China’s Era of Unequal Treaties, which saw the...

Political consensus on climate hasn’t just gone, it has been stolen

Dale Vince and Hassan Damluji discuss COP30 At the annual global climate conference COP30, Keir Starmer was right to highlight the sorry state of affairs in...

Budget missed opportunity

Mansion tax a poor substitute for wider reform of council tax says Duncan Bowie This is not a redistributive budget. The freezing of income tax...

Looks like a Labour budget

Ending the two child benefit cap was a plus says Victor Anderson Labour MPs liked it because the two-child benefit cap is to be lifted...

Budget fails to address real wealth inequalities

Prem Sikka says the second Labour budget has more negatives than positives and looks like managing decline rather than renewal The most positive thing about...

Issue 337 Editorial

Red lights flashing for Labour Labour’s loss of Caerphilly in the byelection for the Welsh Senedd should be a deafening wake-up call. Following a summer of bad headlines...

Untimely Atlanticism

US AI data centres drain power and offer little for UK jobs while in Europe opportunities call says Dave Levy One of the few substantial...

Labour losing moral compass  

Don Flynn says Home Secretary Mahmood’s  “moral mission” is intent on overturning the rights of migrants     Shabana Mahmood has set out a claim to a “moral mission” to mend divisions over...

Labour’s Budget Choice

Taxing the rich, closing loopholes and ending privatisation can reduce child poverty, inequality and boost investment argues Prem Sikka Sustained economic growth has been the...

Taxing the rich

Ignacia Punto asks to tax or not to tax the rich? Will Labour meet the challenge in the Autumn Budget It has now been over...
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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

Budget fails to address real wealth inequalities

Prem Sikka says the second Labour budget has more negatives than positives and looks like managing decline rather than renewal The most positive thing about...

Parliamentary revolutionaries

Duncan Bowie on a new study of the English Civil War The Fiery Spirits by John Rees published by Verso   This is a very different...

Punk and Protest

Peter Hain on the ANL A People’s History of the Anti-Nazi League by Geoff Brown published by Bookmarks Sunday, April 30th, 1978, standing on the stage...

We can’t go on like this

John McDonnell MP says Labour must stop playing into the hands of Reform Somehow, party members going to Labour Party Conference have to try and...