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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
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...
Firefighters shun Labour
30 May 1996
Waiting for the cavalry
30 May 1996
Around the left
Labour-Tory jingos wage beef war
30 May 1996
In their desperation to cling to office, the Tories are shamelessly using the ‘beef war’ to whip up nationalism and play the anti-Europe card
Mass action stops school closures
23 May 1996
Glasgow
Councillor’s struggle for change
23 May 1996
Peter Clee is a full-time worker at Wallasey Unemployed Centre on Merseyside and has recently been re-elected as Labour councillor for Seacombe ward with one of the biggest majorities in the North-West. Peter Manson spoke to him
Education in Labour firing line
23 May 1996
As the next general election looms, the political agenda is moving even more to the right - so watch out