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 still wrong about the Labour Party

The threat of a good example
Matthew Brown reports from Lowick, where local people have been battling church, state and bureaucracy to establish the country’s first co-operative school

Between the pop and the party
Will Brown reviews an ultimately disappointing analysis of the relationship between pop and politics