From Tolerance to Abhorrence

Violence against women and girls - is Labour making progress? asks Karen Constantine Change begins”, reads the 2024 Labour Party Conference strap line. I attended...

Capital Redeemed?

With big business left virtually untouched Bryn Jones sees Chancellor Reeves’ rejection of the everyday economy opening the way to a Harris-style defeat In 2017...

Portents from Austria

As a party with Nazi roots tops the poll in Austria Patrick Costello examines the far right threat across Europe The clear win by Austria’s...

Capital Redeemed?

With big business left virtually untouched Bryn Jones sees Chancellor Reeves’ rejection of the everyday economy opening the way to a Harris-style defeat In 2017...

Portents from Austria

As a party with Nazi roots tops the poll in Austria Patrick Costello examines the far right threat across Europe The clear win by Austria’s...

A new dawn or a dark age?

Editorial - Issue 331 Dark clouds are gathering. Authoritarians using dictatorial methods rule in some of the most populous countries of the world, namely Russia, China and India....

Portents from Austria

As a party with Nazi roots tops the poll in Austria Patrick Costello examines the far right threat across Europe The clear win by Austria’s...

Ending the assault on Lebanon

Don Flynn says the depths of Lebanese enmity are an obstacle to Israel remaking the Middle East At the time of writing speculation is rife about...

NHS – Condition Critical but Cash is Key

Darzi has delivered a diagnosis for the NHS - now we need to know the treatment will be evidence based says Dr John Puntis Lord...

Budget – some repairs but no redistribution

Victor Anderson says it looks like austerity is postponed until 2026 while the rich escape again How you assess a Budget depends a lot on...
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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

An alternative to neo-liberal capitalism?

Hugh Gault on economic power in the USThe Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society by Joseph Stiglitz published by Allen Lane Well-known for...

Our International History 10

Flora Tristan and Jeanne Deroin: Socialist Feminists Flora Tristan was born in Paris in 1803, her father being a colonel in the Spanish navy and...

An East End shootout

Duncan Bowie on anarchists in London A Devilish Kind of Courage by Andrew Whitehead published by Reaktion Books The story of the Houndsditch murders and the...

Sexual assault and what’s wrong with Parliament

Sexual assault and Parliament