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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
Why we resigned
02 Dec 2021
Not unity but division: joint statement by four former members of LAW’s steering committee
Stay and fight and fight again
02 Dec 2021
A call that went unheeded: opening remarks by Graham Bash to LAW’s final all-members meeting
Merging into a cul-de-sac
02 Dec 2021
Derek James of Labour Party Marxists argues that this is no time to give up on the fight against the witch-hunt. Nor will the attempt to form an amorphous socialist movement get anywhere
Deserting the fight
25 Nov 2021
Plans to close Labour Against the Witchhunt and form yet another amorphous broad-left outfit are not only, by definition, unprincipled: they are bound to fail, writes Paul Demarty
Time for a rethink
18 Nov 2021
Derek James rounds on John McDonnell for his pusillanimity and the official left for its silence over the expulsion of Graham Bash
Ten days of change
18 Nov 2021
Following the Owen Paterson fiasco, Labour has leapt forward in the polls. Eddie Ford argues that this creates problems for the standard left narrative of a useless Keir Starmer
No saving graces
11 Nov 2021
Tony Greenstein reviews 'Labour’s anti-Semitism crisis: what the left got wrong and how to learn from it' by David Renton (Routledge, 2021, pp230, £19.99)
Right firmly in control
28 Oct 2021
The Labour left is still clutching at unity and refusing to face up to defeat. Derek James of Labour Party Marxists looks at the sorry results
Latest round win
28 Oct 2021
Three and a half years after being sacked for daring to criticise Zionism during the Enough is Enough demonstration and Jewish Voice for Labour’s counter-demonstration in Parliament Square, Stan Keable welcomes a small victory in the struggle for unrestricted freedom of speech
Common caste identity
21 Oct 2021
Eddie Ford says that the killing of rightwing Tory MP David Amess reveals a lot about careerist politicians in general. And not only on the Labour right … there is the official and unofficial Labour ‘left’ too
Vigorous debate
07 Oct 2021
Paul Drummond reports on the discussions at last weekend’s meeting of CPGB and LPM comrades
Around conference left
30 Sep 2021
LPM comrades William Sarsfield, Andrew Byrne and Stan Keable report on fringe meetings, hubs and bulletins
Setting the record straight
30 Sep 2021
Tony Greenstein reviews 'Labour, the anti-Semitism crisis and the destroying of an MP' by Lee Garratt (Thinkwell Books, 2021, pp237, £10)
Cargo-cult Blairism
30 Sep 2021
Here we are supposed to have the intellectual background. What is revealed is a sad lack of intellectual background. Paul Demarty reviews Keir Starmer's 'The road ahead' (Fabian Ideas, 2021, pp32, £5.95)
Focus group goop
30 Sep 2021
Left treated with blatant contempt. Right relishes its witch-hunt triumph. Andrew Kirkland of Labour Party Marxists reports from the Brighton conference hall