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...
70 Years of Failure: the death of the queen and current shortcomings of republican campaigning | The Queen’s death has been marked by an outpouring of public grieving on a scale not seen since...
A Jubilee or a mask for anarchy? Republicanism has generally had a bad press. Monarchists have either successfully associated it with bloody, revolutionary violence or whenever events like the...
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 I spoke about the three historical reference points behind the platforms...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 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...
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...
