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
Give up on Starmer’s party
27 Oct 2022
Dave Vincent reviews Ten years hard Labour by Chris Williamson (Lola Books, 2022, pp406)
Rout on all fronts
20 Oct 2022
Official leftwingers cry foul, but have absolutely no answers, says Kevin Bean of Labour Party Marxists
Onslaught on Labour left
13 Oct 2022
Kevin Bean reviews The Labour files, Al Jazeera Investigations, director Phil Rees (all four parts available on YouTube)
Sir Keir’s good week
06 Oct 2022
The left is disorientated, in denial and still suffering from an orchestrated campaign of suspensions and expulsions. Kevin Bean calls for reviving Labour Against the Witchhunt and some serious rethinking
For whom the bell tolls
06 Oct 2022
The mini-budget fiasco and the humiliation of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng holds sobering lessons for the national socialist left, argues Paul Demarty
Cornered, bellicose and dangerous
06 Oct 2022
The lady was for turning after all, writes Eddie Ford, and the Tories are now in a state of open civil war, facing a crushing electoral defeat. So will Liz Truss play the Ukraine war card?
Confusion reigns on the left
29 Sep 2022
Gaby Rubin reports the highs and lows of those who placed themselves within the fringe in Liverpool
Political wing of capitalist class
29 Sep 2022
While the right is relishing the prospect of government, the left is marginalised and thoroughly demoralised. Kevin Bean, expelled secretary of Wavertree CLP, reports on the Liverpool conference
Much ado about nothing?
22 Sep 2022
Eddie Ford surveys leftwing coverage of the death, mass outpouring and funeral of Elizabeth Windsor, and finds some more lacking than others
God save the king, the Starmer regime
22 Sep 2022
James Harvey of Labour Party Marxists calls for rebellion against the blue Labour monarchism being foisted on the Liverpool conference
A ray of light
08 Sep 2022
Momentum behaved despicably, while the CLPD was hardly any better, but there was a welcome upset. James Harvey examines the Labour left after the NEC elections
Expect broken promises
01 Sep 2022
Enough is Enough will not deliver a new workers’ party. On the contrary it will enhance the career prospects of the likes of Andy Burnham and return masses of angry people to the Labour fold, argues James Harvey
No time for Sir Keir
11 Aug 2022
With the rise in trade union militancy, all sorts of rumours are circulating about establishing some kind of new left party. James Harvey reports
Curse of faction
04 Aug 2022
James Harvey looks at reactions to the Forde report and what it says about the state of the Labour Party’s left
An open letter to ACR
21 Jul 2022
Tony Greenstein accuses Anti-Capitalist Resistance of giving succour to the ‘anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism’ witch-hunt in the Labour Party