Heart of the matter

Mike Davis on fundamental questions of post-colonialism Liberation and Corruption: Why Freedom Movements Fail by Peter Hain published by Policy Press Peter Hain goes to the...

Isolating Israel and Trump on Iran

An ‘off-ramp’ or a forever war? Mark Seddon on Trump’s dilemma as isolation beckons and world economy plunges Raging against the dying of the light,...

Pete Duncan – Lifelong socialist who combined activism with academia

Pete Duncan, a longtime contributor to the Chartist, died on 13 February after some years of ill health. After teaching at  Glasgow University, University...

Isolating Israel and Trump on Iran

An ‘off-ramp’ or a forever war? Mark Seddon on Trump’s dilemma as isolation beckons and world economy plunges Raging against the dying of the light,...

Pete Duncan – Lifelong socialist who combined activism with academia

Pete Duncan, a longtime contributor to the Chartist, died on 13 February after some years of ill health. After teaching at  Glasgow University, University...

Editorial

Editorial 339

Labour: democratic renewal and Labour left unity The current turmoil at the top of the Labour Party begs the question, where is the left in all of this? The...

Workers spearhead fight against Putin

Sacha Ismail reports that Westminster rally underscores labour movement support for Ukraine We were late starting, thanks to the queues to get through security at...

Greens move Left                                                

Victor Anderson asks: Can the Green Party move left without leaving the environment behind? The Green Party has made dramatic advances in the opinion polls....

Growing resistance in Trump’s USA

Paul Garver reports on the grassroots movements organising anti-ICE actions and the work of the Democratic Socialists of America in the wake of Mamdani's...

Left containment morphs into major crisis for Labour Right 

Defeating Labour’s Left wing liberated the Right to appease the global elite. Don Flynn argues this has led to a current crisis of credibility that...

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

Planetary disfigurement

Don Flynn on the new instruments of conquest Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities & Cronyism Drive the Global Economy by Laleh Khalili  published by Profile First expectations of a...

But what about the McSweeney Files? The virus that corrupted Labour

Bryn Jones assesses the investigative journalism that has exposed dirty dealings in the party The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Labour Together, and the Crisis of British...

What hope for Iran?

Mark Seddon looks back on a disastrous history of Western intervention and assesses the brutal repression of the current regime A few years ago, I...

Black history is British history

Dawn Butler on stopping the racists Black History Month is a time to honour the struggles and incredible achievements of those who came before us...