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What's left? Chartist, the radical alternative, is read by those who want politics beyond mainstream slogans and banal cliches.

 
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
 

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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.

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* 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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