Labour and Corbynism

The second of three articles by UNITE union activist Ian Allinson, reporting from four very useful sessions on learning the North American Labour movement at this year's Historical Materialism conference. We're all busy fighting to...

Neil Rogall takes a closer look at this week's symbolic decision by MPs. On Monday night, 13 October, a remarkable vote took place in the British parliament. A motion calling on the government to "recognise the...

Anindya Bhattacharyya analyses UKIP's success in Thursday's two by-elections. One of the peculiarities of mainstream political chatter is its tendency to seize on the unexpected and discount long-term predictable trends. The response to Thursday's by-elections is...

Dan Swain, of rs21 and active in Norfolk People's Assembly, argues why you should support Saturday's demonstration against austerity, and build the People's Assembly where you can.

Anindya Bhattacharyya follows up his predictions for the Euro elections with analysis of the results. He argues that the problem isn't necessarily UKIP, but the space that UKIP occupies, and that space needs to...

Anindya Bhattacharyya crunches the figures and predicts polarisation, with a right wing consolidation around UKIP and a left wing tussle between Labour and the Greens I'm going to stick my neck out and give my...

Immigration has dominated the discussion in the run up to the European elections on Thursday. Politicians and the media are happy to spread anti-migrant myths, Bunny La Roche seeks out the facts MYTH: Migrants hold...

Ian Birchall looks back at the life of a genuine socialist who fought to the end: Tony Benn, who died today.

The move is a sign of the discontent within the unions caused by Labour's failure to stand up for workers and a reaction to the attacks on the union links by the Labour leadership.