Articles and Editorial

Chris Strafford and Rachel Brooks from the Anticapitalist Initiative discuss the need to defend and extend struggle for LGBT equality in our schools. The revelation that at least 40 schools in Britain have introduced homophobic Section 28-like rules banning the “promotion of homosexuality” has to be met with a calls for them to be overturned. […] Read more »

In this article Mike Wayne posts a revised version of an earlier draft of 21 Principles for guiding policy making for the new party. He also identifies the need to start thinking about the principles that would underpin the internal structure of the new party and the principles that would guide its outward facing political […] Read more »

Kat Burdon-Manley – This essay is a contribution to the discussions we are currently having on the left about how socialists relate to gender issues. We often find socialists sidelining a gender analysis of oppression, in favour of a class analysis. (One recent example of this was that the effect of the cuts on women […] Read more »

Egyptian revolutionary socialist Hannah Elsisi, currently in Cairo, talks to Hesham Zakai about the sources and repercussions of Egypt’s unfolding tragedy. Hesham Zakai: Have we just witnessed a massacre in Cairo and where does the blame for the enormous bloodshed lie? Hannah Elsisi: We haven’t just witnessed a massacre. We’ve just witnessed another massacre. The […] Read more »

Not even the opposition can face the public unscathed, says Will Skyrme. Not even those ordained by Her Majesty to oppose the current ruling clique can wonder freely in the righteous world of the un-egged. Quite apart from the deliciously appropriate nature of the tactic itself – sitting perfectly as it does on the right […] Read more »

Working tax credits subsidise big corporations to exploit poor people. Let’s have a mandatory living wage, says Salman Shaheen. Ed Miliband’s summer of silence has been criticised from the left as the perception grows that Labour has failed to provide a coherent and effective alternative to austerity. The standard riposte to those who claim there […] Read more »

  There is an important debate on Left Unity taking place within the left of the Labour Party. This is a response by Len Arthur to Peter Rowland’s post on the Left Unity initiative on the Left Futures website. Peter Rowland’s article which is now a post on the Left Futures blog raises key issues […] Read more »

I’m currently a couple of years into a long, drawn out process of doing up our flat, says Adam Roden. I’m trying to make a home that works out of a space that is, to a certain extent, flawed; with the kids, there are now four of us living in the top floor of a […] Read more »

Mark Perryman provides a beach reading round up for those who take their politics on holiday with them. The silly season? For the Westminster bubble it would be hard to identify a month in the year when ‘silly’ isn’t too soft an epithet to describe what most MPs get up to, supposedly on our behalf. […] Read more »

“This summer will be remembered for Labour‘s final betrayal of the working-class people it was founded to represent. Not content with signing up to Conservative austerity measures that are dragging Britain’s most vulnerable people deeper into poverty, Ed Miliband has turned his back on the union members who supported his leadership bid. Austerity has not […] Read more »