Books

Act of solidarity

Glyn Ford on the other Spanish republicans Volunteers for the Revolution: International Militia of the POUM in the Spanish Civil War by Andy Durgan published...
Features

Burnham at Party Conference:  Has the  left-progressive message advanced?

Hope back on the agenda with sketchy plans to deal with the cost-of-living crisis. Is it enough?  Don Flynn argues the long years of...
Youth View

‘We are at risk of a lost generation’

How serious will the new government be about the Young People and Work Interim Report asks Rebekah Morton? One in eight young people, those aged...
Features

What Ukraine needs now

Ukrainian trade union organiser Artem Tivda spoke to Chartist about the challenges facing Ukrainians under Russian bombardment. Before the full-scale invasion, Ukrainian official statistics reported...
Books

Which people, which revolution?

Victor Anderson on Populism in France Now, the People!: Revolution in the 21st Century by Jean-Luc Melenchon published by Verso Jean-Luc Melenchon could become President of...

Editorial

Editorial

Editorial 342

Great Expectations Andy Burnham’s swift return to Parliament and ascent to Labour leader and prime minister has inevitably raised expectations among supporters and a wider, volatile electorate. Now...
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Features

Free the Filton 25

Burnham says Labour got Gaza wrong but what about the Filton 25 asks Caitlin Barr Andy Burnham has apologised for Labour getting Gaza wrong. He...

Where Next?

After over 20 years on Labour’s NEC Ann Black reflects on Starmer’s wasted years and a new leader As I leave the NEC, the political...

From vision to reality

Duncan Bowie on three key challenges for Burnham and Rayner Andy Burnham has had a very busy first few weeks as Prime Minister. Parliament is...

Rebuilding Labour’s Democratic Left

Back in the Autumn of 2023 Labour Hub launched a new podcast, with host Bryn Griffiths, one of their regular contributors to foster strategic...
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Debate

debate

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
debate

Driscoll affair echoes Livingstone

Will Jamie Driscoll’s departure be a repeat of the Livingstone London mayor fiasco? asks Trevor Fisher
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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
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No time to stay silent

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

In place of squalor

Duncan Bowie on postwar housing policy The Labour Party, Housing and Urban Transformation by Phil Child published by Bloomsbury This book focuses on Labour Party policy...
Books

Life of a German Jacobin

Glyn Ford on a great visionary The Traveller: The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and his Search for Humanity by Andrea Wulf published by Allen...
Books

Revolutionaries in Fitzrovia

Duncan Bowie on Communards in exile The Paris Commune in Britain by Laura Forster published by Oxford University Press   This is an important book as...

Westminster View

Saving Durham Pride from Reform

Mary Kelly Foy on community action The results of the recent local elections were, for many, a jarring wake-up call. While the headlines focused on...