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Labour Party

Revolutionary syndicalism and The Miners’ Next Step

Posted on 26th July 2021 by Richard Donnelly

The Miners’ Next Step and the movement it created throughout the coalfield gave me the inspiration I had been looking for… The conception of working-class power was far more realistic to me than the idea of merely fighting for seats… Continue Reading →

Uncategorised Labour Party, trade unionism

A triple crisis

Posted on 6th July 2020 by Richard Donnelly

Marx says that revolutions are the locomotive of world history. But perhaps it is quite otherwise. Perhaps revolutions are an attempt by the passengers on this train—namely, the human race—to activate the emergency brake. Walter Benjamin, 1940, Notes for “On… Continue Reading →

Analysis coronavirus, Ecology, Health, Labour Party, The Economic Crisis, The United States, Tories

Universal Basic Income: reasons to be cheerful or no go central?

Posted on 10th January 2020 by Richard Donnelly

Universal Basic Income (UBI), while having several differing strands of thought among its proponents, is in essence the proposal to introduce a single non-means tested, unconditional flat payment to all citizens regardless of employment status.1 Luke Martinelli provides a useful… Continue Reading →

Article austerity, Britain, Labour Party

The wages of Brexit

Posted on 16th December 2019 by Richard Donnelly

The Seattle protests 20 years ago opened a new cycle of anti-capitalist struggle. Despite the influence of the autonomist politics summed up by John Holloway’s famous slogan—“Change the world without taking power”, the dominant currents have looked towards the state… Continue Reading →

Analysis Boris Johnson, Brexit, election, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, Tory party

The Labour Party and
post-neoliberalism

Posted on 16th October 2018 by Camilla

Hence, from this nothing could come but a kind of eclectic, average socialism, which, as a matter of fact, has up to the present time dominated the minds of most of the socialist workers in France and England. Hence, a… Continue Reading →

Article Labour Party

Darkening prospects

Posted on 25th June 2018 by Camilla

Internationally the neoliberal order continues to implode. Donald Trump seems intent on pursuing trade wars with both the United States’ strategic rival China and allies such as the European Union and Canada, while he embraces détente with North Korea, once… Continue Reading →

Analysis Anti-racism, antisemitism, Labour Party

The Russian Revolution and the British working class

Posted on 13th October 2017 by Camilla

The two Russian Revolutions of 1917 inspired socialists and trade unionists across the world. The February Revolution raised the prospect of the overthrow of dictatorship, October the possibility of workers’ revolution and socialism.1 October ripped up the blueprint for socialism… Continue Reading →

Article Labour Party, Russian Revolution, Working class

Corbyn justified, May humbled—the left advances

Posted on 19th June 2017 by Camilla

The extraordinary British general election of 8 June 2017—held amid the echoes of police gunfire on London Bridge—showed that the forces destabilising the advanced capitalist societies since the global economic and financial crisis that broke out nearly a decade ago… Continue Reading →

Analysis Labour Party, Tories

The Labour Party,
anti-Semitism and Zionism

Posted on 3rd January 2017 by Camilla

In June and July 1917, the then secretary of the Labour Party Arthur Henderson visited revolutionary Russia on behalf of Lloyd George’s coalition government. He returned extremely disturbed by what he had seen. The radicalism of the Russian working class… Continue Reading →

Article antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, Zionism

Trotsky on the Labour Party

Posted on 3rd January 2017 by Camilla

“In passing across a narrow and unreliable bridge, a small but reliable prop may prove one’s salvation. But woe to him who clutches at a rotten prop that crumbles at a touch—for, in that case, a plunge into the abyss… Continue Reading →

Article Labour Party, Leon Trotsky

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