Our Making Wales Work plan champions employee buyouts, community-led co-operatives and social enterprises, and reversing managed decline. As 26 years of Labour in power comes to an end, we are the alternative, argues LUKE FLETCHER
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A new workers’ party? Taking a long-term view
Examining the Labour Party’s history – and the reasons for its survival as an entity – give important insights into the best strategy for the future, argues VINCE MILLS
MOVEMENT: People take part in the People’s Assembly Britain is
Broken national demonstration in central London, November 5 2022
Socialist historian KEITH FLETT looks at the pronounced hostility the labour movement has had to giving the state the power to pry and identify dissidents, going back to the era of the ‘Freeborn Englishman’ and Captain Swing
The Renters Reform Bill is a big step in the right direction, but it won’t apply to Wales — we desperately need our own legislation to protect and respect tenants, to give them dignity and security, free from fear of eviction, writes SIAN GWENLLIAN MS, Plaid Cymru’s shadow cabinet secretary for housing and planning
ROBERT GRIFFITHS reports on talks with Raid Jahid Fahmi, general secretary of the Communist Party in Iraq, where sectarian power-sharing makes wielding state apparatus the ‘main domain of conflict’ and the struggling nation’s oil revenues are still held in US banks
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
HANK KENNEDY contends that US military attacks in the Caribbean amount to modern piracy driven by Venezuela’s oil wealth
PART ONE of this article gave a brief account of how the left won the leadership of the Labour Party but not the support of significant sections of the working class. This part considers potential drivers for radical change and how we might move forward.
Central to much of the argument in support of a new workers’ party is the notion that it is the vehicle itself — the Labour Party — that is the problem — if we just started from the beginning and rebuilt it, we could indeed build a party capable of delivering socialism.
It is therefore necessary, the argument continues, that the trade unions should disaffiliate and use their resources to build this new left enterprise.
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