By Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member The first Labour Government was elected in January 1924 and subsequently fell in the general election nine
Category: Labour Party

Is there really a £22bn ‘black hole’?
Andy Ford, Warrington South CLP member BBC’s Radio 4 programme More Or Less focuses on, and often debunks, fake statistics, hence its title. It recently

Letter from Mark Langabeer, Hastings and Rye Labour member As Left-Horizons predicted, this year’s Labour conference appeared to be dominated by the right-wing, a procession

Labour Party conferences are not necessarily important in themselves, because although they shouldn’t, Labour leaders generally ignore the democratically-arrived decisions of the Party membership. But

Keep Grangemouth Working campaign
By David Cartwright, Unite, Glasgow Retired Members’ Branch Since last November, a campaign has been underway to save oil refinery jobs at Grangemouth in Central

Editorial: Labour conference – Promises of “change” but implementing austerity
Thousands of Labour Party members will be in Liverpool over the next week, but what takes place will be less of a conference and more

Letter: Priorities for Activists
Letter from Steve McKenzie (Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley Unite Community) There can be no doubt that the failures of the Labour government will pave the way

Editorial: trade union opposition to Labour austerity
In the coming months there will be increasing tension between the economic needs of trade union members and the austerity strategy of the new Labour

By Left Horizons reporters. In a press release, the Socialist Health Association has expressed its “deep concern” about the creation of a “two tier health

By Ray Goodspeed (Leyton and Wanstead CLP) Ballots are now going out for elections to the Labour Party National Executive Committee (NEC), as well as