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, by SEYMOUR Richard
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 (…)
, by CORBYN Jeremy
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 (…)
, by HARRIS John
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 (…)
, by KRUSHELNYCKY Askold
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A key political adviser to the leader of Britain’s main opposition party, who has been banned from entering Ukraine by its Security Service of Ukraine intelligence agency known as the SBU, is suggesting Kyiv colluded with British intelligence in an attempt to discredit him. (…)
, by RANCE Roland
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 (...)
, by SEYMOUR Richard
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 (…)
, by GOWAN Peter
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 (…)
, by HAYNES Mike
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 (…)
, by DAVIS Madeleine, SPEER Ross
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 (…)
, by FINN Daniel
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 (…)
, by BARNETT Marcus
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 (…)
, by BLACKBURN Robin
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 (…)
, by ROOSA John
BENEDICT ANDERSON, WHO passed away on December 13 last year, is best known as the author of the book Imagined Communities (1983), which remains today a must-read book on nationalism for university students all around the world. It sparked a wave of new studies on nationalism and became as much a (…)
, by DASGUPTA Sandipto
Benedict Anderson was a brilliant scholar whose work was animated by a deep commitment to human emancipation.
To those of us outside of Southeast Asia, Benedict Anderson is best known as the author of Imagined Communities, the seminal study of nationalism and one of the most popular scholarly (…)
, by HERYANTO Ariel
The sudden and peaceful death of Benedict Anderson (26/08/1936-13/12/2015) in Indonesia has generated a flurry of tributes around the world.
Instead of highlighting his best achievements, I wish to suggest how some of his achievements can inspire Asian studies scholars as they face the (…)
, by PINTO Rochelle
The author of the seminal ’Imagined Communities’, who died on December 13, changed the way nationalism is studied.
Like most of my ilk, I first heard about Benedict Anderson in a classroom. A teacher in my Master’s programme was trying to get us to kick a habit that hooks tenaciously into our (…)
, by COYNASH Halya
Jeremy Corbyn, frontrunner for the UK Labour Party leadership and therefore a potential UK Prime Minister, affirms a commitment to human rights on his website. He demonstrates none when it comes to recent events in Crimea, the rest of Ukraine and Russia, and this is not through lack of attention (…)
, by DAVIDSON Rjurik
The only time I briefly met Norman Geras was at the Marxism 2000 conference, held in Amherst, Massachusetts. Geras was one of three keynote speakers. Angela Davis spoke on the prison-industrial complex, with typical charisma; Gayatri Spivak packed the hall and gave a paper that was interminable (…)
, by GARRARD Eve
Norman Geras – professor emeritus of government at Manchester University, philosopher, cricket fan, country music lover, Marxist, liberal socialist, democrat, political blogger behind the influential Normblog – has died of cancer aged 70. His interests were rich and varied, but his thought and (…)
, by lives; running, RENTON David
Following from my last piece,, arguing that Tony Cliff’s book Class Struggle and Women’s Liberation has had a negative effect on the SWP’s and our allies’ thinking about women, discouraging us from taking a sustained interest in sexual violence (i.e. rape, domestic violence, and sexual (…)
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