Germany’s new legal minimum wage: lessons for the UK and Europe
The TUC's fantastic touchstone blog produced another marvellous piece this week on Germany's new legal minimum wage. This change is truly momentous and there...
Republican socialism and Left Unity
Steve Freeman, in rebutting Pete Rowlands in CHARTIST 266, travels from Chartism to the founding Left Unity Party conference
Republican socialism is an idea and...
Chartist chips in: Policy proposals for Labour’s future
Chartist contributors set out some manifesto must-haves for the Labour Party's last National Policy Forum meeting ahead of the 2015 General Election
Democracy
Labour recognises a...
Reflections on the Revolution in Ukraine – Part II
Frank Lee reports on the Crimean Referendum, the double-standards of western government & media reactions and the challenges facing the unelected Kiev regime
The ongoing...
Labour, republicanism and the Commonwealth of Britain Bill
Republican Socialist Alliance seminar February 22nd 2014
Demonised in life, patronized in death, such is the fate of Tony Benn whose death on 14th March...
A tribute to Benn: from david floyd
The Tony Benn I never knew
I met Tony Benn once. It was at the 200th issue party for Red Pepper magazine. I was there...
Reflections on the revolution in Ukraine
Frank Lee asks why the West is uncritically backing a government with fascists in Kiev
Victor Yanukovich was elected President of the Ukraine in 2010...
Whose Company is it anyway?
The TUC's Janet Williamson puts the case for the voice of workers to be heard in the boardroom
It is an important principle of natural...
Labour must rethink its approach to migrant rights
Don Flynn explains what Labour needs to do if it is to change minds and challenge the right wing consensus
The coalition government's Immigration Bill...