ANSELM ELDERGILL recalls the misjudgments, mishaps and moments of farce that shaped his years in legal practice
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Let’s ensure that our message of hope is heard far and wide
As chair of the Labour Party IAN LAVERY has high hopes for the conference and its outcomes
Jeremy Corbyn (centre) with shadow cabinet members (left to right) Diane Abbott, Ian Lavery, Kate Osamor, Tom Watson and Sarah Champion at the launch of the Labour Party election manifesto in Bradford last year
The Communist Party of Britain’s Congress last month debated a resolution on ending opposition to all nuclear power in light of technological advances and the climate crisis. RICHARD HEBBERT explains why
Behind the cute names of Scotland’s road gritters lies a workforce underpaid and overlooked – a fitting reflection of a Budget that protected profits, bungled its rollout and offered hardly a glimmer of hope, writes MATT KERR
Commiserations if you failed this year, MAT COWARD offers six points which, if followed religiously, will ensure you succeed next year
In the final part of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explains how in 2018, after years spent rebuilding the PCS into a leading force against austerity, a damaging rupture emerged from within the union’s own left wing
PRABHAT PATNAIK looks at how the development of capitalism from the start divided the world into unequal segments
The Labour Party as we know it was formed 118 years ago. It was not created out of the desire to satisfy some whim or as an intellectual debating society, where men and women of standing could discuss their concerns about the deserving or undeserving poor.
It was born out of necessity. The injustices and inequality between the working classes, who powered Britain’s industrial revolution, and the upper classes, who profited from it, had never been more obvious and thankfully there were people for whom these injustices could not be ignored.
The importance of the trade union movement in the story of Labour’s conception can often be forgotten.
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