By John Pickard Ninety years ago this week, a general election confirmed a ‘National Government’ in office, under the premiership of Ramsay McDonald, former leader
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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
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,
By Gemma Bolton, CLP Representative, Co-Chair/Campaign for Labour Party Democracy Labour’s National Executive Committee met on 20th July 2021 and ran late into the evening.
Is it a party of workers or capitalists? By Michael Roberts It is 100 years today since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was first formed, by
By John Pickard As the appalling death toll in Gaza continues to mount, the latest atrocity has been an attack that killed ten members of
By John Pickard There is a line in the old BBC series, Yes Minister, in which the cynical civil servant, Sir Humphrey Appleby, advises the
By John Bryan – Camberwell and Peckham CLP – retired ex-building worker and blacklisted trade unionist. International Workers’ Memorial Day (April 28th) was started in
