The only way to develop and build a party of a new type that in any way threatens capitalism is at the same time to develop and build the mass movement around it, argues BILL GREENSHIELDS
The good, the bad and the ugly: part two
VINCE MILLS concludes a critical assessment of Labour’s national policy forum’s final document, looking at crime, the NHS, welfare, transport and foreign policy promises
Lord Peter Mandelson (centre) listens as shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers her keynote speech to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, October 9, 2023
JEREMY CORBYN reports from Hiroshima where he represented CND at the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the city by the US
RAMZY BAROUD asks why it has taken so long for even left-wing voices in the West to call out what Israel is doing
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ says the US’s bullying conduct in what it considers its backyard is a bid to reassert imperial primacy over a rising China — but it faces huge resistance
ROGER McKENZIE reports on the west African country, under its new anti-imperialist government, taking up the case for compensation for colonial-era massacres
SOPHIE BOLT makes an urgent case for comprehensive nuclear disarmament
IT should be noted that many of the areas discussed here — education, health and some elements of social security — are devolved. An analysis of what the document says on constitutional matters is being covered by Pauline Bryan in Saturday’s paper.
3. Safe and secure communities
This section also has some progressive offerings as well as others that hark back to the authoritarian element of Tony Blair’s New Labour. The section on anti-social behaviour carries a commitment to introduce “Respect Orders.”
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