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29 September 2011
Labour Party conference - No way forward given by 'reclaim Labour' speakers
‘Vote for us and nothing will change’! was the message of Labour's Ed Balls to the working class desperate for leadership. Two Socialist Party members report on the LRC fringe meeting and on watching the conference on TV
Labour councillors' conference lobbied by hundreds of angry trade unionists, photo Suzanne Beishon
21 September 2011
2011 Labour Party conference - a debate: Can Labour be reclaimed?
The Socialist reproduces correspondence between one of its readers, Tim Hayward, and Peter Taaffe, Socialist Party general secretary, on the nature of the Labour Party today and how socialist ideas can be advanced
5 April 2011
Should The Unions Campaign To "Reclaim The Labour Party"?
SOME OF the recently elected left trade union leaders have raised the idea of launching a campaign to "reclaim the Labour Party"...
30 March 2011
BBC Radio 4's Analysis programme recently looked at 'Blue Labour' (BL), writes Steve Score Secretary, East Midlands Socialist Party.
National Shop Stewards Network Lobby of TUC congress 2010, photo Paul Mattsson
29 September 2010
No 'lurch to the left' for Labour
Editorial from The Socialist, issue 640: Does the victory of Ed Miliband over his elder brother David - a modern Cain and Abel drama in reverse with the younger brother 'knifing' the elder - represent the dreaded 'lurch to the left' feared by the right-wing press...
16 June 2010
Labour leadership contest dominated by right wing
Editorial: One issue will overwhelm all others in the coming years - the struggle against cuts in public services. In the first instance this struggle will involve demonstrations, strikes and community campaigns. However, the issue of political representation for workers and young people struggling against the cuts must also be an important aspect of the campaign...
26 May 2010
Diane Abbott and the Labour Party leadership battle
Reader's Comment: Diane Abbott's entry into the race for the Labour Party leadership has thrown a banana skin under the feet of the 'Labour Left' in their quest to secure the 33 nominations needed to get John McDonnell's name on the ballot paper, writes Mick Cotter, Hackney Socialist Party.
29 July 2009
DESPERATE LABOUR Party supporters argue that at least a New Labour government is better than the Tories...
24 February 2009
What do union members get from Labour link?
A GROWING number of left activists in the trade unions are frustrated with the continued financial and political links between the unions and the Labour Party...
1 March 2008
Many comparisons can be made between the Brown government and the Callaghan government of 1976-79...
27 July 2006
Labour Representation conference: THE LABOUR Representation Committee (LRC) held its annual conference on 22 July. It was dominated by Labour MP John McDonnell's announcement that he will be standing for the leadership of the Labour Party, writes Jim Horton.
21 April 2005
When Blair ditched socialism from the Labour Party
ANYONE WHO is getting interested in socialist ideas for the first time must find it incredible that the Labour Party ever had the aim of replacing capitalism with a publicly owned and democratically run economy, i.e...
25 September 2004
New Labour - It's Big 'Business As Usual'
DELEGATES ARRIVE at the Labour Party conference on 26 September amid media speculation about splits and differences at the top...
11 October 2003
Union Leaders On The Wrong Track
After Labour Party conference: ACCORDING TO The Guardian on 2 October: "Labour's major trade unions showed their muscle at Bournemouth" and duly "duffed up" the party leadership of Tony Blair, writes But did they?.
11 October 2003
"Tough With The Workers, Toadying With The Millionaires"
Former Liverpool councillor, one of the 47 who fought the Thatcher government and former President of the District Labour Party, Tony Mulhearn gives his impression of Tony Blair's speech at Labour Party conference...
4 October 2003
Labour Party conference: Why We Need A New Workers' Party
IN HIS best imitation of Margaret Thatcher so far, Blair showed in his conference speech that he's not for turning...
9 August 2003
Labour party officer quits and joins Socialist Party
Michael Wainwright - youth officer for the constituency and Chiswick branch secretary - has resigned from Brentford and Isleworth Constituency Labour Party (CLP) after four years' membership - having joined at the age of 15...
12 July 2003
THE INCREASING strains between the unions and Blair's party are showing. Last week, rail union RMT conference decided to further cut its ties with New Labour - by slashing its level of affiliation and...
3 May 2003
Blair's Problems On The Home Front
PUFFED UP from 'victory' in Iraq, Tony Blair is preparing to step up the war against our public services at home...
22 June 2001
Inside Labour's Bermuda Triangle
LIZ DAVIES'S recent book "Through the Looking Glass - A Dissenter Inside New Labour" is a justification of her decision to leave Labour and look elsewhere for a socialist alternative...
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