Democracy & State > Labour
Overcoming the enemies within
17 May 2012
The left must unite in order to change the relationship of forces both within and outside the Labour Party, argues Mike Macnair
Socialism and star power
18 Apr 2025
Owen Jones gets it wrong: the bourgeois media’s idea of leadership offers the left no shortcut to power, argues Paul Demarty. We need a party that is democratic, principled and mass
No sign of spring
03 Apr 2025
Cuts, cuts and more cuts. Michael Roberts examines Labour’s continuation of the last government’s programme of austerity, with one notable exception - spending on war
Whimpering out of existence
14 Nov 2024
The beginning of the end of all those efforts to rally what was the Corbyn movement seems to be in sight. Carla Roberts reports on the factions and the confusion
Notes on the war
10 Oct 2024
It has, for the moment, become the forgotten war. Nonetheless, warns Jack Conrad, there is a distinct danger of escalation, even nuclear weapons, not least if the use of British Storm Shadows against Russia has been given the go-ahead
Davos on the Mersey
03 Oct 2024
Corporate representatives flocked to attend the Liverpool conference, where they could freely lobby, influence and bribe. Eddie Ford looks at the root-and-branch cynicism, corruption and sectionalism of Labourism
Hidden divisions in Collective
26 Sep 2024
After the ‘private meeting’ of the former Labour leader and a host of other former this and thats, Carla Roberts investigates the disorientation of the soft left and the probable results
Things can only get worse
29 Aug 2024
With three of the top five landlords in parliament Labour MPs, we are seeing a petty-bourgeoisification at the top of the party, writes Eddie Ford
A very Labour ban
25 Jul 2024
Eddie Ford welcomes any moves towards promoting public health, but a total ban on smoking - as with the so-called ‘war on drugs’ - is senseless and likely to be counterproductive
Rats in a sack
18 Jul 2024
Local assemblies are a recipe for chaos, confusion and ineffectiveness. Jeremy Corbyn continues to disappoint, writes Carla Roberts
A grand get-together
18 Jul 2024
Durham Miners Gala has always been a celebration of the labour and trade union movement. But this year, reports Ian Spencer, it had a special poignancy
Crime and revenge
18 Jul 2024
Eddie Ford welcomes the early release of prisoners, but the emphasis should be on rehabilitation, not crisis management
Reeves and her ‘securonomics’
11 Jul 2024
Labour’s leadership is relying on big business to bring the economic growth needed to fix ‘broken Britain’. Michael Roberts predicts a one-term government
Not marvellous at all
11 Jul 2024
Carla Roberts looks at the deluded souls who are celebrating the low turnout, Labour’s poor share of the vote and the election of four petty bourgeois independents
Thoughts from afar
04 Jul 2024
Which way for the DSA? There are those who hanker after a Labor Party based on the trade unions, like the Labour Party in Britain. Max Shanly offers some considered words of advice
Neither money nor personality
20 Jun 2024
Carla Roberts reviews Alexei Sayle (narrator), Chris Reeves (director), Norman Thomas (writer) The big lie II - Starmer and the genocide Platform Films, 2024