Hope and faith — but no vision

Amsterdam’s PES Congress showed social democrats know what they’re against. They still struggle to say what they’re for. From 16–18 October, Europe’s social democrats gathered...

Mike Davis remembers Tireless Socialist Campaigner

Pete Rowlands 1944-2025 Pete Rowlands, a lifelong socialist who spent most of his active life in the Labour Party, died in late July. He first...

Where is housing for social rent?

Duncan Bowie on the Government’s failure on affordable housing Not only is the Government’s target of 1.5 million new homes over the five year parliamentary...

Mike Davis remembers Tireless Socialist Campaigner

Pete Rowlands 1944-2025 Pete Rowlands, a lifelong socialist who spent most of his active life in the Labour Party, died in late July. He first...

Where is housing for social rent?

Duncan Bowie on the Government’s failure on affordable housing Not only is the Government’s target of 1.5 million new homes over the five year parliamentary...

Editorial

Issue 337 Editorial

Red lights flashing for Labour Labour’s loss of Caerphilly in the byelection for the Welsh Senedd should be a deafening wake-up call. Following a summer of bad headlines...

Government versus Students, Migrants, and Education

There are deep roots to the crisis in higher education.  Labour's policies on multiple exam retakes for troubled students and restrictions on the rights...

Local socialism – making it happen

Tom Miller outlines a range of measures to improve local services and wellbeing while boosting local Labour Central planks of the Labour government’s ambitions depend...

Dutch template for red-green alliance

Julie Ward surveys the decline of social democracy across Europe identifying a possible alternative European social democracy, as we have come to know it, is...

Big Green State needs political courage

Ann Pettifor says Labour needs to escape the ideology of financialisation if it is to successfully tackle climate breakdown and  build a greener just...

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

Time for Labour to take sides

John Palmer investigates whether a messy divorce is in the making between the United States and the European Union Few were surprised when, on taking...

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...

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...