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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
Fundamental right to migrate
24 Nov 2005
Steven Brooks joined Michael Lavalette in forming a Respect group on Preston council when he left the Labour Party earlier this year. He voted in favour of the two motions calling for the abolition of immigration controls. Anne Mc Shane spoke to him after the debate
Tories stuck in a rut
06 Oct 2005
The Conservative Party is consumed in another leadership battle and, according to some of its leading supporters, is in danger of becoming a rightwing sect. Are they doomed? Can we afford to ignore them? Peter Prestwick takes a look
Class war and damned lies
05 Feb 2004
Dave Douglass (branch secretary Hatfield NUM) reviews: Janice Sutherland, 'Strike: when Britain went to war', Channel 4, Saturday January 24 Steven Condie, 'The miners' strike', BBC2, Tuesday January 27
Blair's stitch-up backfires
05 Feb 2004
The virtually complete exoneration of the Blair government of any wrongdoing in regard to the death of Dr David Kelly by Lord Hutton can only produce incredulity, says Ian Donovan
Power to suppress
15 Jan 2004
The government's new Civil Contingencies Bill is a monstrous encroachment on democratic rights, says Jem Jones
Back in Labour's fold
08 Jan 2004
Ken Livingstone's reinstatement into the Labour Party is at one level a significant defeat for Tony Blair, says Ian Donovan
Healthcare and moral hysteria
08 Jan 2004
New Labour is proposing to charge failed asylum-seekers for healthcare. There is more to this move than budget trimming, argues Jem Jones
Antidote to Blairite lies and deceit
08 Jan 2004
The issue of health is one of those battlegrounds that Blair could easily become unstuck over in the next few years. , says Phil Hamilton
Big people and the small state
08 Jan 2004
Tory leader Michael Howard declares: "I believe the people should be big. That the state should be small." This is a sentiment that authentic Marxists would wholeheartedly concur with, writes Jack Conrad
Provocative and insulting
04 Dec 2003
There was nothing remotely progressive in the defeat of Jacobitism, argues Dave Douglass, in this response to Neil Davidson of the Scottish Socialist Party's Socialist Worker platform
Good Friday on the rocks
04 Dec 2003
Ian Donovan examines the rise and rise of Paisleyism and what it means for the Six Counties
Stealing from BNP
27 Nov 2003
The selection of Howard as leader - with the other camp too weakened even to field a token standard bearer - indicates the Tories have effectively accepted the BNP's logic. Worried about the so-called vacuum on the left? Watch out for the pressure cooker on the right.
Royal agony continues
27 Nov 2003
George W Bushs time in Britain was a state visit. This meant he was the guest of the queen and stayed at Buckingham Palace. It was to be part of the post-Iraq victory celebrations and the beginning of his election campaign.
Rattled Tories crown Howard
06 Nov 2003
Michael Malkin says the Tory leadership contest tells us much about the state of the Conservative Party
Unity is democratic demand too
30 Oct 2003
The Scottish Socialist Party's national council met in Stirling on Sunday October 26 with around 150 delegates and observers in attendance. Sarah McDonald reports