Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights general secretary GAWAIN LITTLE discusses the impact of the US-Israeli war on the Iranian people and economy
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Labour conference 2023: promises and prospects
NICK WRIGHT looks at the context behind Labour’s current position, what could do in power, what it is likely to do — and how the labour movement itself should react
Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer is joined by his wife Victoria after delivering his keynote speech to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. Picture date: Tuesday October 10, 2023.
Capitalism has extracted itself from crisis before, argues PRABHAT PATNAIK – but through methods no longer available. So it is turning to authoritarianism, militarism and neocolonialism
The five young men killed in the A66 crash were responsible for a devastating tragedy — but the crash should force us to ask difficult questions about wider society, argues RENATA MEDEIROS MIRRA
Britain funds the policing of black culture 16 times better than the culture itself. The Diamond Jubilee is the moment to end that, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite Andy Burnham’s declaration defending the continued partition of the island, all major international and internal trends are converging to make Irish reunification inevitable
Humans are part of the ‘animal kingdom’ – and of nature in general – but also distinct from it and labour (work) is part of what makes us unique, declared Engels. His insights 150 years ago into how our species came to be and how we differ from the rest of nature, are as important today as they were then, says the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
LABOUR’S Liverpool conference basked in the expectation that the victory over the Scottish nationalists at Rutherglen heralds a return to the days when the party could rely on a substantial, even inflated, block of Scottish seats.
The rough parity that First Past the Post (FPTP) voting provided in the post-war period has eroded — remember the Conservatives were the biggest Scottish party in 1968 — and the post-independence referendum wipeout of Labour's Scottish contingent, only temporarily mitigated by the return of a handful of extra MPs generated by the 2017 Corbyn surge, looks like ending.
Naturally, Labour has spun the Rutherglen by-election figures as signalling a massive increase in Labour's Scottish presence at Westminster. The victory margin was substantial but the peculiarities of the seat — it alternates between the SNP and Labour — and the general crisis of the SNP and independence movement as a whole, helped Labour.
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