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Down to the 1880s there was no “labour movement” [in Britain] in the continental sense at all. There were strong trade unions (of skilled workers), and these unions were politically-minded — but the only parties were the two ruling-class ones, the Tories and the Liberals.
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'? These questions are live among 'new anti-capitalist' activists, and on the left generally. By Chris Reynolds.
FOLLOWING the correspondence over the recent P&O outrage, I can agree, indeed empathise from personal experience, with all of the righteous…
In June 1994 when Tony Blair stood for election as leader of the Labour Party he denied wanting to get rid of Clause Four, the Labour Party's long-held, ambiguous, but potently symbolic, commitment to reform socialism.
According to the Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Jeremy Corbyn’s inner circle is thinking of quitting the Labour Party and standing Corbyn as an independent in Islington North in the general election likely in 2023 or 2024. It looks like malicious “stirring “by those papers. The Corbynista blog Skwawkbox claims Labour right-wingers have been feeding those Tory papers. Though Skwawkbox is unreliable, that is plausible.