Jim Grant

Latest articles by Jim Grant

The media mincer

Jim Grant of Labour Party Marxists looks back at the Labour leadership’s attempts to conciliate the media.

Fall of the house of Osamor

Kate Osamor’s resignation is a symptom of more serious political sicknesses, argues Jim Grant

There are big barriers to overcome

Jim Grant of Labour Party Marxists looks forward to the Liverpool conference

Too modest by half

John McDonnell’s ‘radical’ plans to overhaul company ownership forget about the state - Jim Grant argues that the state will not forget about John McDonnell

A black day for Labour

There are few silver linings to Ken Livingstone’s resignation, reckons Jim Grant of Labour Party Marxists

Join us in battle

The RMT is debating whether or not to affiliate. Jim Grant of Labour Party Marxists says get back in

Call time on fanboyism

Capitulation will never be good enough for the right - so the Labour left has no interest in compromise, argues Jim Grant of Labour Party Marxists

Taking an independent stand

The election of Donald Trump has torn up the political rulebook - a reality that protestors must confront, argues Jim Grant

Steele’s very British coup

Whatever the truth of the salacious details, the Trump dossier is a reminder that the state is not politically neutral, argues Jim Grant

How not to course-correct

Socialist Resistance has finally shifted focus to Labour - but on a rotten basis, reckons Jim Grant

Momentum or inertia?

As long as it is treated as the private property of its most timid elements, Momentum is doomed, argues Jim Grant of Labour Party Marxists

Victory and retreat

Despite the talk about ‘wiping the slate clean’, Jim Grant of Labour Party Marxists expects the war to continue

Trotspotting: a field guide

Tom Watson is worried about ‘infiltrators’: Jim Grant of Labour Party Marxists is less than impressed with his conspiracy theories

Right’s floundering coup

Where next for the Labour right? Jim Grant considers the options

No safe spaces for traitors

Jeremy Corbyn not only faces the nonentity, Owen Smith, but a legal challenge in the high court. Jim Grant of Labour Party Marxists says the left must toughen up

Time to counterattack

The Labour plotters are well organised, but weaker than they look. Jim Grant of Labour Party Marxists urges that we take the fight to them

Thin end of the wedge

We must oppose the expulsion of Gerry Downing, but fight to expose his political errors, argues Jim Grant

Through the looking glass

Jim Grant of Labour Party Marxists wonders if the bourgeois press thinks their readers are sheep