Government versus Students, Migrants, and Education

There are deep roots to the crisis in higher education.  Labour's policies on multiple exam retakes for troubled students and restrictions on the rights...

Local socialism – making it happen

Tom Miller outlines a range of measures to improve local services and wellbeing while boosting local Labour Central planks of the Labour government’s ambitions depend...

Dutch template for red-green alliance

Julie Ward surveys the decline of social democracy across Europe identifying a possible alternative European social democracy, as we have come to know it, is...

Local socialism – making it happen

Tom Miller outlines a range of measures to improve local services and wellbeing while boosting local Labour Central planks of the Labour government’s ambitions depend...

Dutch template for red-green alliance

Julie Ward surveys the decline of social democracy across Europe identifying a possible alternative European social democracy, as we have come to know it, is...

Editorial

Labour at the Crossroads

Editorial 336 Facing threats from right and left, Starmer’s Labour, with its tissue-thin but substantial parliamentary majority, is showing its fragility. The loss of many council seats in...

Dutch template for red-green alliance

Julie Ward surveys the decline of social democracy across Europe identifying a possible alternative European social democracy, as we have come to know it, is...

Big Green State needs political courage

Ann Pettifor says Labour needs to escape the ideology of financialisation if it is to successfully tackle climate breakdown and  build a greener just...

Red Welsh way

Eluned Morgan says Wales is at a crossroads, and it’s a battle that will resonate across the UK Journalists who are usually London-based and London-focused...

Returning to basic socialist values – and soon!

Duncan Bowie on finding Labour's soul The current Labour government is seen as lacking a clear political objective, which can be viewed as value-based. The...

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

The world according to the Paleolibertarians

Don Flynn on ideology of the new right Hayek’s Bastards: The neoliberal roots of the populist right by Quinn Slobodian published by Zone Books Wone Bookshether in...

Labour – lacking vision or just blind?

Glyn Ford calls for an urgent change of direction For Labour Party members and supporters, the last twelve months of the first Labour Government in...

Weimar and Hitler’s people

Duncan Bowie on German History Vertigo by Harald Jahner published by W H Allen Hitler’s People by Richard Evans published by Allen Lane  Vertigo is,...

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...