Child poverty is the highest for decades
Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member ITV’s Tonight programme reported on the growing number of children living in poverty . According to the programme,Read More
A new Spring for Labour?
By Michael Roberts This post was first published on May Day in the Lebanon journal, Project Zero, in Arabic. https://alsifr.org/new-era-labourer May Day is traditionally celebrated as InternationalRead More
Philadelphia teachers protest punishments for taking sick days
By Emily Rizzo, Chalkbeat New York. [Editorial note: although this article refers to a dispute around the working conditions of teachers in Philadelphia, USA, we are publishing hereRead More
House of Starmer: new Spring collection
By the Left Horizons political fashion critic Political fashion houses are agog at Keir Starmer’s apparently inexaustible supply of new collections. His latest, Labour’s Six Steps wasRead More
TULO and a snake-oil salesman
By John Pickard The organisation that represents the trade unions affiliated to the Labour Party, TULO, met with Keir Starmer and leading Shadow ministers on Tuesday, andRead More
TV review: infected blood, time for answers
By Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member The BBC Panorama programme on Monday May 14 looked at the scandal of the infected blood given to haemophiliacsRead More
Some lessons of Jamie Driscoll’s challenge to Labour
By Andy Ford, Warrington South Labour member Jamie Driscoll lost in his challenge to the hand-picked official Labour candidate in the election for North East mayor onRead More
Joseph Stiglitz and ‘progressive capitalism’: a review of ‘The Road to Freedom’
By Michael Roberts The liberal leftist economist and Nobel (Riksbank) prize winner Joseph Stiglitz has another book out to proclaim the benefits of what he calls ‘progressiveRead More
Do union leaders have the will to oppose Starmer’s policy drift?
By Steve McKenzie, Unite Community member The watering down of Labour’s New Deal for Workers has understandably, and quite rightly, led to howls of protest from tradeRead More
Book Review: ‘Vulture capitalism’
By Michael Roberts Grace Blakeley is a media star of the radical left-wing of the British labour movement. She is a columnist for the left-wing journal, Tribune,Read More
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