Spring 2000

Labour Watch David Connolly wonders what happened to one member one vote Pushed into enemy hands Bernard Hughes on how the leadership is turning even some of its closest friends into foes Impassable impasse? Paul Dixon wonders what next for the Northern Ireland peace process A task of two halves Adam Brown reports on...

Summer 2000

Labour Watch David Connolly ponders the latest example of new Labour-style democracy Republicans and the choreography of peace Paul Dixon wonders how Republican leaders have sold the Good Friday Agreement For Queen and country … and socialism Barry Winter meets working class unionists who tell it like it is Zimbabwe in crisis William Brown...

Winter 2001

Labour Watch Ann Black describes the underground manoeuvres which damage democracy at the National Policy Forum Still time to change trains Bernard Hughes picks over the origins and entrails of the railway crisis Gone but not forgotten Jean Wood reports on the plight of Kosovan refugees recently sent back to their own country dot.com/sustainedgrowth?...

Autumn 2001

Developing democracy Stephen Yeo argues that cooperative politics can help to address the democratic deficit The ILP and social change Barry Winter outlines the ILP’s perspective and explains why it’s had to change Collective action and the sustainable renewal of Britain Sean Creighton calls for a better understanding of mutual organisations, and argues that...

Summer 2002

The challenge of mutuality The ILP’s Weekend School in Scarborough at the beginning of May 2002 brought ILPers and non-ILPers together to discuss the politics of cooperation, mutuality and social enterprise Mutuality and radical politics Sean Creighton traces the historical association of mutual organisations and the labour movement, and questions what the ‘new mutualism’...

Autumn 2002

Behind the Stars and Stripes Gary Kent reports on the fiery arguments that have raged on the US left and right since the attacks last September on New York and Washington The left, the war and the obligations of the oppressed In the wake of September 11th, and opposition to the war on terrorism,...

Spring 2005

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...

Winter 2002/03

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...

Summer 2003

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...

Spring 2004

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...

Autumn 2004

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...

Winter 2004

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...