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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
Class solidarity for tube strikes
18 Jul 1996
No big surprises as Labour shuns striking underground workers
Scotland denied
11 Jul 1996
Labour leads the attack
11 Jul 1996
An honourable man?
04 Jul 1996
Scottish Labour MP John McAllion resigned his front bench seat in protest against Blair’s backtrack on devolution. Now he is being portrayed as a ‘man of honour’ by the media in Scotland. Communist Mary Ward - McAllion’s election agent and leader of Dundee district council when a Labour member - could not disagree more
‘Huttonomics’ and the ‘Blair Revolution’
04 Jul 1996
Richard James reviews The state we’re in by W Hutton (1995, pp352) and The Blair revolution - can New Labour deliver? by P Mandelson and R Liddle (1996, pp274)
Fat cat of the year
04 Jul 1996
The lesser evil?
04 Jul 1996
Cuts in jobs, services and attacks on workers’ conditions - whether at work or in health, education or housing - have led millions to despair. But instead of looking for a real alternative the working class, lacking any vision of its own potential to take over the running of society, is reduced to seeking out the ‘lesser evil’
Dundee’s class wars
27 Jun 1996
Labour’s fake wage promises
27 Jun 1996
New Labour is talking about introducing a minimum wage - some time in the future. We must fight for one - in the here and now
Understand history: don’t repeat it
06 Jun 1996
“Invalidating” the membership of those deemed to be “breaching the democracy” of the SLP seems to be an NEC code word for an anti-communist witch hunt. There are important lessons from the 1920s
New words, same old ideas
06 Jun 1996
Hardly anyone could have failed to notice that the ‘stakeholding economy’ has become one of the buzz words of the 1990s - and even of the next millennium. Where has it come from and why does new Labour like it so much? Eddie Ford offers some explanations
New Labour?
06 Jun 1996
Tax potholes in Scotland
06 Jun 1996
Labour declares war on youth
06 Jun 1996
At last new Labour is not imitating the Tories...