People’s economy

Linda Wainwright on a dissenting voice The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton published by John Murray This book provokes a shift in perception that is difficult...

Sanction Seapeak

Svitlana Romanko and Peter Cooper explain why a British company involved in funding Russia’s war chest must be blocked As global leaders continue to respond...

Mining fantasy

David Toke says Farage and Reform risk ruining Port Talbot and Wales Nigel Farage’s fantasy promise to bring back steel blast furnaces and coal mining...

Sanction Seapeak

Svitlana Romanko and Peter Cooper explain why a British company involved in funding Russia’s war chest must be blocked As global leaders continue to respond...

Mining fantasy

David Toke says Farage and Reform risk ruining Port Talbot and Wales Nigel Farage’s fantasy promise to bring back steel blast furnaces and coal mining...

Editorial

Standing up to Trump

Editorial 335 Authoritarianism, war and repression is being turbocharged by the Trump presidency. The White House has given a green light to Putin’s brutal illegal war of aggression...

Ecosocialist planning for a better world

Simon Hannah says we need a new socialist paradigm that moves from nationalisation and growing productive forces to democratic control, global redistribution and ecological...

Moving the deckchairs

Duncan Bowie tries to uncover the logic behind government plans for local government reorganisation and strategic planning Much attention has been given to the establishment...

End divisive suspensions

Mike Davis says listen to MPs and members and reinstate dissenters First, there were seven. Then there was a 140. Then there was 47.  The...

Quality not quantity

Patrick Costello and Glyn Ford argue for a European defence strategy for serious times Mary Kaldor makes many valid points in the last issue (“Beyond...

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

Principles and pragmatism

Duncan Bowie on 70 years of the peace movement The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament by Martin Shaw published by Agenda   Books on CND tend to...

Challenging Putin

Pete Duncan on Russian mercenaries The Wagner Group: Inside Russia’s Mercenary Army by Jack Margolin published Reaktion Books The unsuccessful mutiny of the Wagner Group, led...

OUR INTERNATIONAL HISTORY 15

Albert Brisbane: American Utopian Socialist Brisbane was the main promoter in America of the ideas of the French utopian, Charles Fourier. Born in New York...

Water needs public participatory control

Clive Lewis MP on why MPs should back his Bill to transform the water industry and end the scandal of price rip-offs, sewage pollution...