With Tory confusion on the economy, the general election looks to be very close, writes James Turley Alastair Darling’s budget was in effect the opening shot in Labour’s election campaign and, given the global economic crisis, he made a fair fist of it. As everyone knows, he had to promise financial responsibility, while offering a few ...
James Turley agrees with offering No2EU conditional support but criticises the PCC’s call to vote Labour On June 4, the CPGB advised the world to vote Labour in the elections to the European parliament. That day’s Weekly Worker carried a lengthy article from Mike Macnair, extending the argument for this voting advice greatly beyond what we ...
Mike Macnair explains why the CPGB recommended a Labour vote on June 4 The political dynamics of the scandal over MPs’ expenses claims are becoming clearer. The dominant dynamic of hatred for the corruption of the parties and MPs is towards a ‘democratic’ but rightwing populism which aims to produce an apolitical politics, a politics without ...
Ted North examines the new-look, progressive, Keynesian Brown Whilst it is typical media hyperbole to claim that Gordon Brown has a “new-found status as a global financial leviathan”, it is clear that major political changes are afoot (Sunday Herald November 10). An end to the troubles and downward spiral of the Labour Party seemed unlikely just a ...
Genuine Marxists express the need to contextualise abortion programmatically in political and economic spheres. Ted North reports recent debates The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Bill was approved by the House of Commons on October 22 despite the opposition of former minister and Opus Dei member Ruth Kelly, who was one of 16 Labour MPs to ...
James Turley examines the 'Brown Bounce' Back when Gordon Brown assumed the reins of government in 2007, Labour’s poll ratings shot up. He was, after all, replacing the by then almost universally reviled Tony Blair; he had under his belt a decade as an apparently competent chancellor and a cryptic reputation for being to the left of ...