30.10.2014
Supplement: Labour Party Marxists No.5
A special supplement from our friends at LPM
This week we are carrying a four-page supplement from Labour Party Marxists , including a report on worrying developments in the Labour Representation Committee, the case for a federal republic, and a Marxist view of this year's Labour conference. Not forgetting a plug for comrade Stan Keable, standing for the LRC NC and Labour Briefing editorial board!
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Marking the centenary of the 1926 General Strike, Jack Conrad charts the transition from an aristocratic Con-Lib two-party system to the bourgeois Con-Lab two-party system. Though the first Labour government was a tame affair, it set the stage for an historic clash of class against class
After the Green victory in Gorton and Denton, things look grim for Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government. But class strategy needs to be central, writes Paul Demarty
Even before the election has taken place, Gorton and Denton is being touted as another humiliating blow for Labour and yet another triumph for Reform. Eddie Ford is not convinced. True, Sir Keir is on the ropes in parliament, but expect tactical voting
Government attacks on trial by jury must be resisted by all democrats and socialists. We should not only fight to extend trial by jury: we should also demand the election of judges, says Paul Demarty
