Modi and Hindu nationalism

Nigel Watt on the largest democracy Malevolent Republic - A Short History of the New India by K.S.Komireddi published by Hurst This is a very readable...

Trump catastrophic for Ukraine and Palestine

Tanya Vyhovsky says Trump can be beaten but Harris has to go out and meet the people. What would be the impact of a Trump victory...

Moving beyond manifesto essential

After savage Tory austerity cuts local control is basic common sense says Tom Miller Alongside the landslide secured by the Labour Party in the 2024...

Wrong in commission and omission

Glyn Ford on Entryism Entryism and the Revolutionary Socialist Left in Britain by Nicolas Sigoillot published Routledge Spanning more than seventy years, Sigoillot covers the ground,...

Voice for Palestine

Mary Mason asks what impact can the Independents have? The General Election was a huge victory for Starmer, elected on a promise of creating change,...

Change has to mean radical change

Editorial - Issue 330 Attlee went for it in 1945 with the formation of the modern Welfare State and the NHS. Wilson followed suit in 1964 with investment...

Voice for Palestine

Mary Mason asks what impact can the Independents have? The General Election was a huge victory for Starmer, elected on a promise of creating change,...

Gaza – break with Washington consensus

Labour needs to radically reorient its political approach to Israel argues Andy Gregg If Labour is to even begin to win back support from large...

Churchill’s urinal and a people’s bank

Ann Pettifor says low tax revenues hampered by a low investment Tory legacy mean Labour has an uphill climb to tackle economic renewal and...

The strategic periphery

Karl Kautsky, the great Social Democratic thinker, published an article in Die Neue Zeit on 11 September 1914, in which he famously explained that...
New Democracy Supplement

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

Essays written in war, for peace

Daphne Symon on trauma of war One Woman’s War by Dana Mills, Foreword by Sally Abed, published by Five Leaves This is a remarkable book and...

Head North

Mary Southcott on mayors with ideas and a manifesto for action Born only streets apart, Andy in Fazakerley where the Rabbit came from in Liverpool...

Orwell and Stalin

Glyn Ford on totalitarianism George Orwell and Russia by Masha Karp published by Bloomsbury Orwell was an anti-Stalinist revolutionary socialist from the mid-thirties until his death...

Sexual assault and what’s wrong with Parliament

Sexual assault and Parliament