The Commown Wealth Party (1942-46) During the Second World War a new left wing party emerged that captured the mood of the working class in those dangerous and turbulent times. The Common...
The Commonwealth Party and the Communist Party | (First appeared in Prometheus Journal 15 January, 2025 | This version includes some minor clarifications) The left in England is in disarray since...
Quit pandering to far right migrant narrative: Radical democratic reform must be at the heart of our response to a resurgent far-right | (First appeared in Chartist 22/8/24) July 27th’s large London...
Free Julian Assange | The launch of the Labour Campaign for Free Speech on Saturday 13 February 2021, as reported in Weekly Worker, may prove significant and timely. The conference, with three hundred participants, identified three major issues – the use of smears of...
Part 1 Corbyn, Left Unity and Republican Socialism | We might start at the beginning. In 2013 I attended the founding conference of Left Unity debating the merits of different platforms. I spoke about the three historical reference points behind the platforms...
Labour's Historic Defeat in Scotland | You may remember the famous Monty Python sketch about a parrot returned by a dissatisfied customer, John Cleese, to the pet-shop run by Michael Palin. As Cleese enters the shop, Palin says, “We are closing for lunch”. Cleese says...
Labour Left Alliance - social monarchism or republicanism? Republicanism in the Labour Party is the ‘dog that doesn’t bark’ argues Kenneth Morgan, with reference to Sherlock Holmes who deduced from the absence of a fact who...
English Nationalism In Weekly Worker (12 March 2020) Bob Smart criticises my comments on Royal Socialism and English nationalism by saying I “attack(s) Labour Party Marxists for not supporting the right of self-determination for Scotland and Wales. It is...
Royal Socialism | As reported by Stan Keable in “A vision of royal socialism” (Weekly Worker 27 February 2020) the Labour Left Alliance (LLA) conference on 22 February 2020 was a significant event in the evolution of the Labour left, revitalised by the election of...
European Elections | Hardly a day goes by without the ‘Brexit revolution’ taking some new turn. The plot to overthrow May was slapped down when she called the conspirators to her Chequers country palace. Next day in parliament she ruled out ‘no deal’ and pulled the...
Anti-Unionism and Left Unity | The Tories, UKIP, the Democratic Unionists, the Liberal Democrats, and the Labour Party are all British Unionist parties. Last weekend Left Unity (LU) conference took a significant step forward. It became an Anti-Unionist party and thus...
Antisemitism | Really Palestine! Labour Shadow Educational Secretary, Lucy Powell claimed that Labour had a problem with antisemitism “otherwise we wouldn’t have spent the best part of the last six days talking about it”. (Channel 4 News) The Labour Right has indeed...
