Editorial

As austerity measures bite while the economy continues to flatline, arguments for a Keynesian response to the recession are gaining traction. Marxist economist Michael Roberts casts a critical eye over the Keynesian case, arguing that it misunderstands the causes of capitalist crisis  A new radical think-tank kicked off last year in the UK. It’s got […] Read more »

As the media is dominated by pro-Thatcher voices, here are the views of some who speak for so many of us: Ken Loach says: “Margaret Thatcher was the most divisive and destructive Prime Minister of modern times. Mass Unemployment, factory closures, communities destroyed – this is her legacy. She was a fighter and her enemy […] Read more »

Andrew Burgin remembers those lives tragically lost as a result of Thatcher’s policies. Ed Miliband MP, the Labour leader said today ‘I send my deep condolences to Lady Thatcher’s family, in particular Mark and Carol Thatcher…’ Well my thoughts today are with the families of those not mentioned by Ed; the families of Joe Green, […] Read more »

I don’t mind a fair political fight but that is not what CND got from Margaret Thatcher’s government, says Kate Hudson. As anti-nuclear protest rose across Britain in the early 1980s, against cruise, Pershing and Trident, support for CND grew exponentially. Thatcher’s government carried out its own attempts to counter the growing strength of CND […] Read more »

Salman Shaheen writes on Thatcher’s continuing legacy and the need to defeat it. Margaret Thatcher died today. They say you should not speak ill of the dead, so I shan’t be writing any long obituaries. Thatcher was my ideological opposite, after all. Born in the year of the miner’s strike, I was too young to […] Read more »

I took a while before deciding to sign Ken Loach’s statement, says Mark Perryman. Like many I’ve had my fingers burnt more than a few times investing hope in such initiatives. I keep on my mental turntable The Who track ‘won’t get fooled again’. But 7000 signatures in the space of a few weeks and an incredible […] Read more »

Intellectuals, writers and teachers have much to say about an economic crisis as big as the one affecting Spain. ‘On the Street’ talks with the writers Luis Garcia Montero, Ada Colau and Arcadi Oliveres to find out their position on the events that are happening in Spain. Read more »

David Proudlove is the Left Unity organiser for Crewe. Here he reflects on political life and his hopes for a new party of the left I first heard about the great Ken Loach’s latest film towards the end of last year, and it has to be said, its timing is just about perfect. Spirit of […] Read more »

Steve Lytton began to be active politically during the Vietnam War protests, and then as NUS secretary at his college. Upon qualifying, he became a member of the executive of his local NUT branch, before leaving to work on a newspaper in Moscow. Upon returning to the UK he joined the import department of progressive […] Read more »

In the industrialised countries the general correlation is the higher per capita incomes, the higher the proportion of immigrants in the economy. Many OECD economies have both higher incomes and higher levels of immigration than Britain, explains Michael Burke Political parties in Britain have once more begun to talk about immigration, especially in the wake of […] Read more »