This world of ours
Eric Preston introduces the ILP’s Weekend of political review
Heed their voices
Labour MP Harry Barnes on Iraq after the elections
Demos and disillusionment
Phil Doré on leaving Stop the War for Labour Friends of Iraq
Telling it like it is?
Matthew Brown on two contrasting tales of new Labour Britain
Beyond the market, below the radar
Barry Winter reports [...]

It’s the end of the world as we know it
Ben Turley reports from Halifax on the BNP’s recent by-election victory.
Beneath American skies
Gary Kent reports on the diversity of opinions he found on a recent trip to the USA.
A Hill of beans?
Barry Winter reviews Anti-Capitalism: The social economy alternative, by Chris Hill, and considers the role [...]

New Labour, new Democrats?
Gary Kent wonders about a little discussed aspect of Blair’s international intentions
Racisms, multiculturalisms and fascisms
Barry Winter argues for plural thinking to meet the challenges posed by the far right
“Mavis Grimett is out”: The rise of fascism in the north
Ben Turley looks at some of the social and political roots of the BNP’s [...]

BARRY WINTER reviews Anti-Capitalism: The social economy alternative, by Chris Hill, and considers the role of the social economy in creating change, as well as sustaining socialism.
This is an intriguing book. Written and, indeed, published by a former, long-standing member of Militant and, at the time of writing, a member of one of its offspring, [...]

Save the Labour Party
Barry Winter reports on the public meeting and AGM of Save the Labour Party, one of a number of initiatives that have emerged to challenge the Labour Party leadership
The malaise of powerlessness
Michael Meacher MP argues that power is more concentrated now than at any time for a century
Genuine popular ownership?
Jonathan Timbers searches [...]

One of the sad aspects of Labour’s farcical London mayoral selection contest, argues BERNARD HUGHES, is how the leadership is turning even some of its closest friends into foes.
When Glenda Jackson announced on 19 January that she would ballot her constituency party on how she should cast her second vote in the London mayoral selection, [...]

Valley fever
Ben Tullett reports on the battle to beat the BNP in Halifax
Mixed Greens
Jonathan Timbers says the Green Party has some serious thinking to do before it can become a credible and progressive alternative to Labour
Reimagining socialism, reinventing democracy
Barry Winter admires Hilary Wainwright’s Reclaim the State, but she is still wrong about the Labour Party
The [...]

The battle for democracy in Iraq
Gary Kent calls for support for Iraq’s grassroots democrats
Coalition of the careless
Will Brown reports on a ‘left wing’ attack on Iraqi trade unionists
Save the Party … for Gordon Brown
Jonathan Timbers sees the STLP heading up some depressingly familiar cul-de-sacs
Cook’s report
Martin Cook on the ILP’s ‘Conversation of the left’
Africa: Imperialism goes [...]

GARY KENT reports on the diversity of opinions he found on a recent State Department-sponsored trip to USA.
The United States is not a uniform entity. Anyone who says, “America thinks this, that or the other” is just plain wrong. There is possibly more diversity of opinion in America than in Europe.
Bush made major electoral gains [...]

Into the cracks of the system
Matthew Brown reports on the ILP’s discussion weekend
A challenge remaining
Will Brown reflects on a left still looking for direction
Stock ideas
Mike Wadsworth reports on a CLP meeting about housing
Unite against terror
A statement on the London bombings
No quick fix
Will Brown on the legacy of Live8, G8 and Make Poverty History
Is there a [...]