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Labour Party

A house divided: Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party

Posted on 6th January 2016 by Camilla

Something remarkable happened over the summer of 2015. Immediately after Ed Miliband resigned following Labour’s defeat in the general election, the grip exercised by Blairism over the Labour Party had seemed set to continue grimly on. The field competing for… Continue Reading →

Article Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party

Two faces of reformism

Posted on 5th October 2015 by Camilla

In our last issue we advised the radical left in Britain to be “open to the sudden fissures that the crisis of the British state can…unexpectedly open up, perhaps making possible a qualitative advance”.1 And the unexpected came very quickly,… Continue Reading →

Analysis Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, Reformism

Can Len McCluskey reclaim Labour?

Posted on 7th October 2013 by ISJ

With over 1.4 million members, Unite is Britain’s biggest union, representing more than a fifth of all trade unionists in the UK. A mainly private sector union, it is also well represented in parts of the public sector—local government, the… Continue Reading →

Analysis Labour Party, Trade unions

True crime stories: some New Labour memoirs

Posted on 4th January 2011 by ISJ

A review of John Prescott with Hunter Davies, Prezza: Pulling No Punches (Headline, 2008), £18.99; Peter Mandelson, The Third Man: Life At The Heart Of New Labour (Harper Press, 2010), £25; Tony Blair, A Journey (Hutchinson, 2010), £25 With David… Continue Reading →

Analysis Labour Party

Labourism and socialism: Ralph Miliband’s Marxism

Posted on 4th January 2011 by ISJ

It is more than a little ironic that the recent race for the leadership of the Labour Party came down to a contest between the Miliband brothers.1 For their dad, Ralph, was the author of a devastating socialist critique of… Continue Reading →

Analysis Labour Party

Brown’s left bounce?

Posted on 2nd January 2009 by ISJ

The least expected beneficiary of the September-October 2008 financial crisis was Gordon Brown. The whole media, and at least half the cabinet, regarded him as one of the living dead in the run-up to the Labour Party conference. Within weeks… Continue Reading →

Analysis Labour Party

New Labour pains

Posted on 2nd October 2008 by ISJ

The smell of death around this government is so overpowering it seems to have anaesthetised them all… The imaginary Blair/Brown ideological distinction has now been exposed as the sham it always was… The sad truth is that he [Brown] opposed… Continue Reading →

Analysis Labour Party

When old Labour went to war

Posted on 31st March 2008 by ISJ

A review of Mark Phythian, The Labour Party, War and International Relations 1945–2006 (Routledge, 2007), £19.99 One response to the Iraq war has been an attempt to blame it on Tony Blair personally and to somehow exonerate the Labour Party.… Continue Reading →

Analysis, Book reviews Iraq War, Korean War, Labour Party, Vietnam War

Labour’s organic crisis

Posted on 5th April 2005 by ISJ

Only a fool would attempt to make some comments about the health and future of the Labour Party just a few weeks before a general election provides a very useful snapshot of its popularity and makes the task much easier.… Continue Reading →

Analysis Labour Party

Urban landscapes

Posted on 5th April 2005 by ISJ

Cities are at the centre of politics in Britain today. More than 80 percent of the UK population live in cities and their suburban hinterland.1 New Labour has made the regeneration of urban spaces through an ‘urban renaissance’ a key… Continue Reading →

Analysis Labour Party, Urban spaces

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