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Labour movement		Date
Opening up the debate Duncan Bowie on trying to participate in Labour's policy review		Nov/Dec 2011
Is attacking capitalist predators enough? Eric Shaw explores whether Ed Milband can pull Labour out of the doldrums		Nov/Dec 2011
No return to the 1980s Paul Nowak explains how trade unions can lead a winning alliance against cuts		Sep/Oct 2011
Salmond's Scotland Gerry Hassan asks can Labour recover		Jul/Aug 2011
Libertarianism in a cold climate Paul Anderson on libertarian socialism yesterday and today		May/Jun 2011
Labour in opposition - time to come out of the shadows Peter Kenyon assesses Ed Miliband's leadership so far		Mar/Apr 2011
Labour's alternative Mary Southcott views Ed's choices on voting reform		Nov/Dec 2010
Making the case Kate Green MP on Labour's tasks in opposition		Nov/Dec 2010
Honest about thorny questions Peter Hain puts the case for Ed Miliband		Sept/Oct 2010
Time for a rethink Mike Davis on reviving Labour’s challenge		July/Aug 2010
Lessons Left Duncan Bowie looks to the future for Labour		July/Aug 2010
Win or lose Peter Kenyon looks at Labour's options		May/June 2010
Saving the Labour Party Pete Rowlands on why socialists should join		Mar/Apr 2010
Fabians consider their role Duncan Bowie on a floundering think tank		Nov/Dec 2009
Right royal mess Peter Kenyon on Labour's farce		Sept/Oct 2009
Scottish unions shape Scotland's future Ann Henderson says unions lead equalities agenda		Sept/Oct 2009
Parliamentary reform - back to basics The expenses fiasco has generated huge public anger and cast a pall over both the Labour Party and parliamentary politics more widely. Here Duncan Bowie presents some options for change		Jul/Aug 2009
A grim prospect Peter Kenyon admits Labour's prospects are bleak and those of the people it professes to serve even worse		Jul/Aug 2009
Smeargate Neal Lawson on what's wrong with New Labour		May/Jun 2009
British jobs? Don Flynn warns of theconsequences of jingoism		Mar/Apr 2009
Political nightmare Fresh from election to Labour's NEC ponders Peter Kenyon the scope for a turnaround		Sep/Oct 2008
Labour - make or break Four activists set out the questions and answers		Jan/Feb 2008
Things can only get similar David Floyd on a decade of success and disappointment		May/Jun 2007
Beware: Pickpockets operate here Peter Kenyon on party funding pitfalls.		Mar/Apr 2007
Is the party retrievable? Some ideas For debate Jon Cruddas MP defends his proposals.		Jan/Feb 2007
A charter of Labour Party Member's Rights Gaye Johnston sets out a key demand to enable Labour to rebuild.		Jan/Feb 2007
Debate is not a luxury Compass Chair Neal Lawson on the Deputy Leadership election.		Jan/Feb 2007
A Chartist manifesto: New worlds for old		Nov/Dec 2006
Trust the grassroots Peter Hain outlines the key strands to reconnect Labour’s shattered coalition.		Nov/Dec 2006
Strong on power, weak on prescription Trevor Fisher finds clear insights but too much of the chattering classes in the new Compass pamphlet seeking to explain how Labour can renew.		Nov/Dec 2006
State aid = state of emergency Peter Kenyon reports on the latest Blairite plot to milk the taxpayer and smash the Labour-TU link.		July/Aug 2006
The man who would be Poor judgement and pipedreams characterise the view of many on the left to a Brown succession argues Don Flynn.		May/June 2006
How not to make policy Daft ideas on the backs of envelopes threaten to unseat Labour, says John Denham MP.		Mar/Apr 2006
It's the party, stupid Peter Kenyon reviews the prospects for Britain’s mainstream political parties		Jan/Feb 2006
Is Labour legitimate? David Clark says New Labour is dead		Nov/Dec 2005
We, the members Peter Kenyon reviews the 2005 Party Conference season in the wake of further falls in party membership, the loss of 4 million Labour voters and signs of stirring in the bowels of the Labour Party.		Sept/Oct 2005
Leisure society Jack Jones on the disaster of pensions policy.		Nov/Dec 2004
Suicide note Could I-R-A-Q be the shortest in history, asks Peter Kenyon.		Nov/Dec 2004
Cut off at the roots Has Labour a future without the Party on the ground? asks Gaye Johnston		Sept/Oct 2004
Naked and unashamed Bernard Crick on halting the drift towards presidential government.		Sept/Oct 2004
Hard work and the life of the mind Don Flynn traces the efforts of working class men and women to overcome the fragmentation of life and art and unite hard work and intellectual life		May/June 2002
Labour's star Anita Pollack remembers Barbara Castle		July/Aug 2002
Third Way or road to nowhere Pete Smith finds social justice missing in New Labour		July/Aug 2002
All black shortlists Annie Keys says six hundred years is too long to wait		March/April 2002
Move over darling Val Price on all-women shortlists		Jan/Feb 2002
The lucky sperm club Michael Young on Blair's meritocracy		Sept/Oct 2001
Is what matters what works? Eric Shaw criticises government infatuation with the PFI		July/Aug 2001
Labour will get a second chance Ann Black on how Labour is lucky in its opponents		May/June 2001
Reason to believe Pete Smith on new Labour's managerialism		May/June 2001
Dashed expectations Paul Anderson argues that Labour has to earn its votes		May/June 2001
Prescott's last stand Trevor Fisher questions Labour's glitzy electioneering		Mar/April 2001
Class war on the poor Pete Smith on New Labour's attacks on the poor and powerless		Jan/Feb 2001
The iron law of malarkey Pete Smith tracks the continued sidelining of Party structures		Nov/Dec 2000
Busy going nowhere Pete Smith wonders where on earth Labour is going		Sept/Oct 2000
Blair's 'free market Stalinism' Trevor Fisher on the centralisation at the heart of government		Jul/Aug 2000
Your turn again, Livingstone Pete Smith looks at the effect of the Livingstone win		May/June 2000
Modernisers living in the past Charlie King and Peter Latham on Croydon's 21st century party		July/Aug 2000
Why Ken? Martin Cook is inspired by the 'not Tony' candidate		Jan/Feb 2000
Rethinking democracy Joy Johnson says Labour should listen to its members		Jan/Feb 2000
Do you know your left from your right? Pete Smith on the age old debate places Labour on the right		Jul/Aug 2000
Voices for London Trevor Phillips and Ken Livingstone on the race for London Mayor		1999
Smith's legacy Denis MacShane on how John Smith shaped modern London		1999
Blair v Brown Gary Kent sees trouble ahead		1999
Welcome to my nightmare Pete Smith has a disturbing vision of Labour's future		1999
The Blairite agenda Ronald Bessell on the Blairite agenda		1999
Class struggle: any place but Labour Don Flynn on the limits of Blair's modernisation project		1999
Whatever happened to One Member One Vote Trevor Fisher		1999
The Third Way - Back to the future? Pete Smith says the left should not spurn liberal radicalism		1999