Why “liberal” support for migration isn’t enough 

Don Flynn on migration Migration as Economic Imperialism by Immanuel Ness  published by Polity There is a strong tendency at the liberal end of commentary on immigration...

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...

Organised irresponsibility

Mary Kaldor and Luke Cooper explain how Britain’s defence strategy clings to a bygone world The German sociologist, Ulrich Beck, coined the term “organised irresponsibility”...

Labour’s immigration policy

Don Flynn says Labour is tacking to the right on immigration What is the difference between President Trump’s war on immigrants in the US and the...

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...

Organised irresponsibility

Mary Kaldor and Luke Cooper explain how Britain’s defence strategy clings to a bygone world The German sociologist, Ulrich Beck, coined the term “organised irresponsibility”...

Is Starmer meeting the challenge?

The two party system is over but Trevor Fisher argues digital ID cards and tacking to the right on immigration  show Labour is failing...

The human cost of Trump’s War on Foreign Aid

Micheal Nelson Byaruhanga reports UK and US foreign aid cuts will consign millions of people to disease and early deaths At Biiso Health IV in...

TUC stays pro-Ukraine, mixed on climate, while demanding more from Labour 

Sacha Ismail reports on this year’s TUC Congress which showed shifting ground on military spending, Ukraine and climate change Reversing policy passed amid controversy in...
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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

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...