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	Read articles from the latest issue	Beyond Blair - A new book from Chartist
	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	Chartist has published an insightful collection of essays charting a new route for the left. With contributions from several of our leading correspondents, Beyond Blair analyses the experience of New Labour on politics, economics and social justice. More details here...
	A new politics at last? If anything good is to come from this economic and MP expenses crisis then it needs to be more democracy argues Mary Southcott
	A grim prospect Peter Kenyon admits Labour's prospects are bleak and those of the people it professes to serve even worse
	Jettison conventional wisdom Bill Butler MSP on prospects for a new Scotland
	Lessons from down under Gaye Johnston on the pay-offs from Kevin Rudd's break with neo-liberalism
	The delusions of social dumping Don Flynn on British workers being derailed


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