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The Labour leader will draw a link to Sir Tony Blairs momentous 1995 decision to ditch Clause Four in a speech on Saturday.

He will tell party members he will go "further and deeper" that Tony Blair.

Fans make no pretence of balance or reason. They are drunk on irrationality and obstinacy, hurling themselves after the...

An excellent of the foundation and development of the Labour Party and how it has acted in power and in opposition, effectively countering many of the claims for Labour having once been a working class, socialist party. First published in the early 1990s.

Keith Skipper calls for a new age of clear talking under Rishi Sunak's reign

The idea that socialism is about workers getting the “full proceeds” of our labour was influential in the 19th century, enough so that a version of it appeared in the old (1918-95) Clause Four of the Labour Party rulebook.

Originally published in Workers' Liberty magazine, January 2001 Why should Marxists want to narrow our appeal to 'the workers', enrolling people from other classes only to the extent that they rally behind the working class? Why not seek a broader unity of 'ordinary people'? The pivot of Marx's critique of political economy is the concept of abstract labour, or universal social labour - labour as the expenditure under standard conditions of a quotient of average lab...

Originally published in Workers' Liberty magazine, January 2001 Why should Marxists want to narrow our appeal to 'the workers', enrolling people from other classes only to the extent that they rally behind the working class? Why not seek a broader unity of 'ordinary people'? The pivot of Marx's critique of political economy is the concept of abstract labour, or universal social labour - labour as the expenditure under standard conditions of a quotient of average lab...

The organised working class with its legacy of eternal struggle simply no longer exists

Having a by-election in Rabai is not viable and the seat will remain vacant until a new MP is elected on August 9.