Our friend and comrade Barry Winter, former ILP secretary and editor, has died at the age of 80. NEIL RHODES remembers a teacher, writer and thinker who embodied the organisation’s commitment to political honesty and unwavering humanity.
Barry Winter’s dedicated commitment to the ILP lasted for nearly 60 years – from 1966, when he joined as a student at Leeds University, to his death in a Leeds care home on 16 August.
As a church minister, CHRIS WILSON at least knows “the boss” is OK, although “the middle management can be a real problem”. Clergy need trade unions as much as any other workers, he says.
After a week of parliamentary rebellion and government chaos, ERNIE JACQUES assesses the outcome and impact of Labour’s ‘crazy’ welfare proposals.
The success of Sheffield Renewables has shown how attitudes to energy policy can be changed with local engagement and a co-operative business model that offers much more than profit. DAVE BERRY explains.
Sick of waiting for free markets and trickle-down economics to make us all better off, ERNIE JACQUES looks for hope in the legacy of a northern factory owner and philanthropist whose social reforms inspired the welfare state.
CHRIS WILSON issues a clarion call for a modern movement for change based on the best traditions of the past.
Poet, campaigner and pioneering author – Blackburn ILPer Ethel Carnie Holdsworth was a radical writer of the early 20th century who made history as the first working class woman to have a novel published in Britain.
Proportional representation is not the only answer to voter disengagement, argues JOHN CUNNISON. Compulsory voting, party primaries and a new parliament should also be part of a radically re-worked political system.
Pioneering south Wales ILPer Minnie Pallister was one of the most important feminists, pacifists, socialists and journalists of the 20th century. But her life and legacy have been largely forgotten in recent decades. Author ALUN BURGE aims to put that right.
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Parliament, Apathy & an Agenda for Change
Proportional representation is not the only answer to voter disengagement, argues JOHN CUNNISON. Compulsory voting, party primaries and a new parliament should also be part of a radically re-worked political system.