With the benefit of hindsight: ‘Scottish Independence and the British state ten years on’
Ten years on from the Scottish independence referendum – a report of a Conter conference held on 14 September 2024
Rachel Reeves and the ‘maxed out credit card’
Kate Deer takes a critical look at the new government’s claims that Britain has ‘maxed out its credit card’.
Election – threats from the right, big new chances for the left
Colin Wilson provides an analysis of the election, including the unreported detail of successes for a new kind of left
Review | The Vote
Danny Bee reviews Paul Foot’s ‘The Vote’ – how it was won and how it’s undermined.
Making Gaza the issue in the general election
Jonny Jones argues for making Gaza a central issue in the general election as part of starting to build a serious opposition to Starmer’s Labour.
Dover’s dodgy defector
Keir Starmer’s acceptance of hard-right Natalie Elphicke into the Labour party has shocked and dismayed many. East Kent resident Danny Bee explains why he’s not happy at having her as his Labour MP.
Kick out the Tories, prepare to fight Starmer
Colin Wilson analyses the 2 May council and mayoral elections in England.
Resist Sunak’s demonisation of disabled people
An analysis of how new governmental measures continue to demonise and punish disabled people.
Climate failure sparks SNP crisis
Pete Cannell looks at how the gulf between the SNP’s rhetoric and climate policies that relied on partnership with the oil and gas industry sparked a crisis.
The Tories’ pro-natalism agenda
Colin Wilson unpacks the right-wing agendas behind the new Tory childcare policy.
The Socialist Alliance, George Galloway and Respect: left electoralism the last time around
After George Galloway’s Rochdale victory, David Renton reflects on past left electoral vehicles, and why democracy and accountability are essential.
Rochdale by-election highlights Labour’s bankruptcy on Gaza
Rochdale – a significant victory, but not the left alternative we need.
The Tory meltdown continues
Rachel Iboraii celebrates the Tories’ latest by-election losses and looks at what this tells us about the prospects for the upcomin general election.
Autumn statement 2023: let it burn
Last week’s autumn statement was widely seen as the opening of the Tories’ general election campaign. but do the Tories have a coherent economic strategy that can rescue them?
What’s going on in Unite? | Part 2
Unite activist assesses Sharon Graham’s leadership of the union. Part 2.
What’s going on in Unite? | Part 1
A Unite activist assesses Sharon Graham’s leadership of the union. Part 1.
What the hell is Labour doing?
Despite a commanding lead in the polls, Starmer is still running scared from the Tories.
The Law Under Attack
Cuts to legal aid have destroyed working people’s access to justice, David Renton reports.
Sunak fiddles while Rhodes burns
Pete Cannell and Brian Parkin take a critical look at Sunak’s recent oil and gas announcement. This piece was originally published on the SCOT.E3 blog. On Monday Rishi Sunak flew to Aberdeenshire by private jet to announce that at least one hundred new North Sea drilling licences will be granted in the autumn. A policy described […]
‘Lack and longing’: an interview with Satnam Virdee and Brendan McGeever
Satnam Virdee and Brendan McGeever answer questions about race, nation, working class struggle and the breakdown of Britain’s democratic settlement.
Voter suppression and protest repression: the Tories’ attack on democracy
The government is swiftly and systematically destroying the rights on which ordinary people rely: to vote, to protest, to strike.
Sunak suffers, Starmer stalls – the council elections in England
Rachel Iboraii celebrates the Tories’ losses in last week’s council elections in England, and questions why Labour isn’t profiting more from the government’s woes.
Will Starmer’s Labour be better than the Tories?
Pat Stack discusses Starmer’s attacks on Corbyn and his legacy, and the question of what attitude socialists should take to the Labour Party’s rightward lurch and a potential Starmer government.
Britain’s new PM Sunak is as wealthy as the king — and as distant from the people
Britain has a newly-unelected prime minister. Gareth Dale looks at how we got here, and what to expect from the coming months.
Review | Red Metropolis
Danny Schultz reviews Red Metropolis, the latest work by acclaimed political thinker and architectural critic Owen Hatherley. Schultz argues it provides an insightful history of radicalism within London, yet falls short in considering the importance of the working class struggles which make municipal socialism possible. Owen Hatherley, Red Metropolis: Socialism and the Government of London […]
Labour: socialists and witch-hunters
Ian Allinson and Rachel Eborall take up the issue of Starmer’s purges in the Labour Party and respond to Conti and Woody’s claim that the party represents the progressive petty bourgeoisie.
Starmer’s purges and the problem with Labour
Finlay Conti and Gus Woody look at the Labour Party’s history to understand the meaning of Starmer’s purge, what it tells us about Labour’s inability to represent the working class, and how Marxists go forward from here.
The antisemitism of Sir Keir Starmer
The Labour leadership treats British Jews as pawns in its factional war against the left. Meanwhile, its so-called ‘Zero Tolerance’ approach contributes nothing to any serious attempt to tackle antisemitism.