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Referendum has nothing to offer
07 Jun 2012
Neither Scottish independence nor British unionism. Sarah McDonald looks at the launch of the "Yes" campaign
No winners, many losers
10 May 2007
The third elections to the Welsh national assembly on May 3 failed to generate any level of excitement amongst the people of Wales. This was hardly surprising, given that the campaigns of the four main parties indicated that there was little to separate them politically. Cameron Richards reports
Election lottery
26 Apr 2007
On Thursday May 3, voters in Wales go to the polls in what is dubbed by many the 'Welsh general election'. However, if interest in the event is to match that rather grand title, there would have to be a significant increase in the 38% turnout recorded for the last assembly elections in 2003. Bob Davies reports
Post workers under attack
26 Apr 2007
At the end of last week, Royal Mail announced that it would accelerate the privatisation of crown post offices by transferring 85 of them to the tender mercies of WH Smith. Initially, 70 are to due to go this year. Jim Moody reports
Fight slavery in all its forms
05 Apr 2007
Eddie Ford on the bicentenary of the abolition of slavery in Britain - and the distorted pictures painted of William Wilberforce
Sparks, flashes and damp squibs
22 Mar 2007
Andrew Coates reviews Nick Cohen's What's left? How liberals lost their way (Fourth Estate, 2007, pp400, £12.99)
Tory resurgence and the left
22 Mar 2007
Eddie Ford on the re-branding of the 'nasty party'
Province of permanent instability 'normalises'
15 Mar 2007
Liam O Ruairc of the Irish Republican Socialist Party looks at the situation in Northern Ireland after the elections and the possibilities of power sharing
Abolition and working class solidarity
15 Mar 2007
Official society celebrates the bicentenary of the ending of slavery as part of 'our common British heritage'. Mike Macnair examines the class forces that underpinned anti-slavery
Reid whips up xenophobia
15 Mar 2007
In response to home secretary's John Reid xenophobic incitement directed at those from outside Britain, Jim Moody argues for open borders
Freudian slips and punishing the poor
08 Mar 2007
Unite employed and unemployed workers, says Eddie Ford
May 3 and the CPGB
08 Mar 2007
The forthcoming elections will feature a number of left Labour and socialist candidates and slates, writes Peter Manson. On what basis should we decide who deserves our support?
Farcical battle for votes
01 Mar 2007
Elections to the Wales national assembly on May 3 promise to be tale of two battles. The first battle will, of course, take place amongst the major Welsh parties for control of the devolved administration; the other a quite farcical contest between a bewildering array of left groups fighting it out for the title of the 'largest sect in Wales'. Cameron Richards reports
Thieves at large
15 Feb 2007
Jim Moody analyses Royal Mail's decision to exclude new staff from schemes that ensure a retirement payout based on a percentage of a member's final salary
SF constitutional transformation complete
01 Feb 2007
For workers' unity, for open borders
01 Feb 2007
On January 26 the government announced yet another batch of anti-migrant measures in its UK Borders Bill, which will have its second reading on February 5. Peter Manson reports