The only issue of any real importance in the Wednesday session of Labour conference was the leader’s make or break speech. In the end, he
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As it has been on other days, today’s Labour conference saw the collision of two political strategies: Labour’s right-wing, forever cautious, timid and with an
British capitalism is in a profound crisis. The Tory administration, the most corrupt and inept in modern times, is in utter disarray. The big majority
Outside the conference centre in Brighton, there is a huge banner with its colour morphing from red on the left, to blue on the right,
The Labour Party conference opens in Brighton this Saturday, and with the right-wing firmly in control of the leadership and the party bureaucracy, they are
The Tories have made it clear in no uncertain terms that the burden of taxation will increasingly be shifted onto the shoulders of the working
Unite the union, the largest affiliate to the Labour Party and the largest single source of its funds, has a new general secretary. Sharon Graham
While the Labour leadership has been busy opening a one-sided assault on its own party left wing, it has been conspicuously absent from the field
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Editorial: climate change is ‘inevitable, unprecedented and irreversible’
Only ten or twenty years ago, most activists in the labour movement would have assumed that climate change, although an important problem, would be one
Desperately lacking in political ideas and dragging the Labour Party into a miserable second place behind the Tories, Labour’s right wing are resorting to their
