Growing instability in the US economy and financial markets could have serious consequences worldwide because of the central role of the US dollar and financial system, argues MICHAEL BURKE
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‘The left has been winning on the conference floor. It's alive and kicking’
Labour MP Richard Burgon
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
The left needs a bold energy vision – because if it fails to provide one, others will shape the future in their own interests, argues ALAN SIMPSON
From Margate to Deal, mining memories are being kept alive. National co-ordinator for General Strike 100, HENRY FOWLER continued his nationwide tour of partner organisations in the Garden of England
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
Boxes of books, family photos and heirlooms, labour movement anniversaries, along with nostalgic memories of glorious childhood days on the Ayrshire coast still leave room for a wistful MATT KERR to hope for a better future
RUMOURS of the death of the Labour left have been greatly exaggerated.
That’s what Leeds East MP Richard Burgon is keen to get across when I meet him at Labour conference.
Keir Starmer has had a conference dominated by partial defeat on rule changes, an embarrassing shadow cabinet resignation exposing his meanness on wages and sick pay during a pandemic, repeated victories for left-wing motions on the conference floor from nationalising energy to solidarity with Palestine that the party leader had tried to squash and the possible disaffiliation of one of the party’s founding trade unions.
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