In the wake of the 2017 general election, a hastily deleted poll conducted by the Tory-funded think tank Bright Blue revealed that climate change was ranked the number one issue for under 28s in the UK, trumping public service provision and the economy for the first time. Recent events have (...)
Just as the latest round of witch hunting antisemitism allegations against Jeremy Corbyn has reached its crescendo something particularly vile has emerged from the woodwork – a 2400-word open letter to Corbyn from Sean Matgamna of the AWL (Alliance for Workers Liberty) , an organisation claiming (...)
Anti-fascist demonstration organised by Unite against Fascism and Stand Up to Racism in London on October 13.
Demonstrations on successive weekends in London last month shone a spotlight on major political rifts – in the major parties and in the political left.
On October 13, the extreme (...)
Exclusive: database shows 124 green, anti-racist and other groups spied on by undercover police
Police deployed 24 undercover officers to infiltrate a small leftwing political party over a 37-year period, the Guardian can reveal.
The police spies infiltrated the Socialist Workers party (SWP) (...)
Labour needs to develop a socialist strategy that goes beyond a single election manifesto. Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin look at the challenge of state transformation
Just a few years ago, it would have seemed most unlikely that developments in the British Labour Party would attract widespread (...)
Rumours of a growing divide between activists and union bosses are overstated. But there are issues to be worked out—and they cut to the heart of party democracy
At one point, it seemed the big news from Labour conference was going to be that the constituency activists and unions differ (...)
The Labour Party leader set out his vision for the United Kingdom in his leader’s speech at the party’s Liverpool conference
Thank you for that welcome. I want to start by thanking the workers, the fantastic staff at the Conference Centre and hotels, the Labour Party staff who make this (...)
The scepticism about Corbynism isn’t because it is too radical, but because in an era of disruption, it is not radical enough
In among all the noise about Brexit and Donald Trump, there’s a remarkable sound: a great deal of the free-market, laissez-faire ideas that have dominated the last four (...)
The shape and direction of the current coup are clear. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn is being set up to lose, and Jews are being set up to take the blame. The plotters will not be satisfied with anything less than Corbyn’s removal and humiliation; but they will not take responsibility for this, and will hide behind claims of Jewish responsibility.
The aim is clearly to force Corbyn out of the Labour Party leadership, and if that fails, then to cause Labour to lose the next election. And in (...)
British capitalism has a unique problem. Its major ’comparative advantage’, globally, is banks and tanks.
Both are hugely destructive industries. But it is the banks that caused the worst crisis of capitalism since the 1930s. As the FT’s Martin Wolf asked shortly after the crash, “how should the (...)
Corbyn’s Labour Party is advancing a transformative project that could push beyond traditional social democracy — and toward democratic workers’ control.
Last year’s British Labour Party manifesto has received substantial attention from those — including myself — who see it as a comprehensive (...)
The recently published ‘Financing Investment’ report, produced for Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, sets out elements of Labour’s new economic thinking. But how radical is it?
Given that the UK is something of a poster child for neoliberal policies, rolling back some of its worse excesses is not (...)
The radical newspaper Black Dwarf burst onto the scene in 1968 with an iconic cover. It didn’t last but its spirit lives on.
The enduring image of New Left activism, both in Britain and elsewhere, remains that of 1968. Britain’s 1968, however, really began the year before. Publication of the May (...)
For weeks, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party has been the target of a defamatory campaign meant to undermine it, wrote Daniel Finn on April 9.
The dominant narrative in the British media about Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party, and antisemitism is false and defamatory. Labour does not have a (...)
Max Levitas was a towering figure of Britain’s labor movement. A hardened enemy of the Blackshirts in the years before World War II, the Irish-Jewish communist devoted nearly a century to fighting injustice.
Max Levitas in March 2011. Michael Shade / Flickr
With the death of Max Levitas, who (...)
For the first time in its history, the British parliamentary left has a realistic chance of filling the top governmental positions in this capitalist stronghold when the next general election comes. In what follows, I explore the challenges and constraints that a Corbyn government would (...)
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