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This week Labour launched our 'Justice for Coalfields' campaign, following damning new evidence revealed in newly released cabinet papers covering the 1984 Miners' Strike. To my considerable shock, the Daily Mail will not be backing this…
Yesterday cabinet papers from 1984 revealed that Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government did have a secret hit list of pits earmarked for closure. Despite denials by the then government and by the National Coal Board, we now know that…
After thirty years of collecting dust, the declassification of secret government papers has finally exposed Margaret Thatcher’s and senior cabinet ministers’ true role in the 1984-85 miners’ strike. The extent to which Mrs Thatcher and her…
Jim Murphy MP grew up in South Africa in the time of apartheid, he reflects on the life and impact of South Africa’s greatest son, Nelson Mandela. Songs, poems, plays and books have been written about him. Sadly but unavoidably it’s now…
1) Keir Hardie enters parliament 2) Mary Barbour’s army wins rent controls 3) Jennie Lee creates the Open University 4) Scots join up to the International Brigades 5) Victory in the UCS work-in 6) John Smith leads the Labour Party 7)…
Earlier we brought you the news that Jack Straw will be standing down as MP for Blackburn in 2015. For some in the party his legacy will be remembered for his role in the Iraq war, but such a blinkered view would be only a partial…
1) Labour’s first black MPs 2) Nelson Mandela addresses Labour Party conference 3) Labour’s first black ministers 4) Black Labour women pioneers 5) Bill Morris becomes Britain’s first black union leader 6) The Battle of Barking 7) Doreen…
I didn't know Ralph Miliband, although I knew many who did. But I did know Lou Kenton, of the same generation, also a Jewish Marxist, who distinguished himself as a volunteer ambulance driver with the International Brigades in Spain and…
1) Things Can Only Get Better 2) Ghost Town 3) Liar Liar 4) Eton Rifles 5) Shipbuilding 6) There is Power in a Union 7) My Guy 8) Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika 9) A Man’s a Man for A’ That 10) Jerusalem Since the General Election Labour has…
Last weekend saw four fantastic Labour women selected to fight for parliamentary seats at the next General Election. Since 1997, Labour has led the drive to see more women in Parliament, creating a politics that looks and sounds more like…
The always excellent Hopi Sen has written about the surreal nature of 'Labour realness' debates. Such internal party debates revolve around whether protagonists are mimicking the actions of Labour's historical baddies, rather than a case on…
Looking back over Labour’s 13 years, there are plenty of achievements to celebrate alongside plentiful regrets for things done and things left undone. Hindsight is a fine thing and no doubt if Blair and Brown knew then what we all know now…
