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The Paul Richards column Until the day he died of a broken heart in 1915, Keir Hardie carried a silver pocket watch. On it were the teeth-marks of a favourite pit pony who had tried, unsuccessfully, to eat it. The experience of the pits…
The Paul Richards column In the third of a weekly series of essays on some of the inspirations for the Labour movement, Paul Richards looks at the Victorian prophet William Morris. William Morris (1834-96) hated the age he lived in. He…
The Paul Richards column In the second in an eight part series on Labour's pioneers, Paul Richards looks at the founders of the co-op movement. Co-operation has been a human trait for as long as there have been humans. The first tribes of…
The Paul Richards column At the weekend my new book Labour's Revival is published, just in time for Labour Party conference. It contains an analysis of Labour's final years in office, the election campaign and result, and then a discussion…
The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter Rather like the indefatigable Black Knight in Monty Python's The Holy Grail, social democracy seems blissfully unaware that it faces an existential threat. German SPD hits 20%. A mere flesh…
The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter Rather like the indefatigable Black Knight in Monty Python's The Holy Grail, social democracy seems blissfully unaware that it faces an existential threat. German SPD hits 20%. A mere flesh…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk This afternoon I listened to Tony Blair being interviewed on Radio 5 by Richard Bacon, and watched his interview with Andrew Marr again. The one thing that jumps out at you when you're watching (or…
By Carl Rowlands A recent article in the Guardian has vividly illustrated the extent that the British workers movement became entwined in Cold War machinations during the post-war period. We're talking about millions of dollars, much of…
By Brian Barder / @BrianLB In the last of three articles about the events of the five days immediately following the election in May leading to the formation of the coalition, Brian looks at the lessons of those events for the Labour party…
By Jon Wilson August 15th - yesterday - is a day Labour should celebrate. On August 15th 1947, under a Labour government, India became independent from the British empire. Pakistan was freed from British rule the previous day. In the last…
By Johanna Baxter Jimmy Reid will always be remembered for the work-in at the Upper Clyde shipbuilders yard in the seventies. And rightly so. The modern union movement has much to learn from his handling of that dispute. The dispute was not…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk * Speaking to the Guardian, Mandelson says Brown was "an unhappy and agressive man". * These memoirs will expose the "moral bankruptcy" at the heart of New Labour" says Jeff Randal. * Neil Kinnock has…
