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...

Labour must maximise pressure on Israel and Trump

Andy Gregg finds the Gaza "peace" plan vague, with no mention of the West Bank and subject to Trump’s whims. Now that the hostages have...

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...

Labour must maximise pressure on Israel and Trump

Andy Gregg finds the Gaza "peace" plan vague, with no mention of the West Bank and subject to Trump’s whims. Now that the hostages have...

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...

Editorial

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...

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...

England for the English?

John Denham examines the flag phenomenon, why Labour is getting its response to England dangerously wrong and why it should develop a programme of...

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

Mike Davis remembers Tireless Socialist Campaigner

Pete Rowlands 1944-2025 Pete Rowlands, a lifelong socialist who spent most of his active life in the Labour Party, died in late July. He first...

Why “liberal” support for migration isn’t enough 

Don Flynn on migration Migration as Economic Imperialism by Immanuel Ness  published by Polity There is a strong tendency at the liberal end of commentary on immigration...

Labour’s immigration policy

Don Flynn says Labour is tacking to the right on immigration What is the difference between President Trump’s war on immigrants in the US and the...

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...