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The 20 year anniversary of the 1997 general election is as good a time as any to reflect on the achievements of the last Labour government. To remind ourselves that Labour radically re-shaped Britain after 18 years of Tory failure and to…
Britain has a long tradition of migration ranging from the Romans, Irish, and Jews in the early 20th century. Contrary to popular belief, black people were established here well before the 1940s - in fact for hundreds of years, according to…
Comrade Corbyn: A Very Unlikely Coup: How Jeremy Corbyn stormed to the Labour leadership by Rosa Prince, Biteback. Sceptical telling of the tale of how the veteran socialist overcame 100-1 odds to claim the Labour leadership after a youth…
Anthony Crosland’s momentous treatise on The Future of Socialism was published 60 years ago, in a Britain afflicted by a sense of national crisis not dissimilar to the one we confront today. The year 1956 was a torrid one for the British…
The Labour Party has never been averse to bouts of political soul-searching when we look to the past to learn lessons for the future. Sometimes this can be self-indulgent and unhelpful, especially if it involves reopening old wounds and…
Clement Attlee was the best prime minister since the Second World War, while David Cameron was the worst in 50 years. That's not the results of a LabourList survey, but expert opinion. A series of university academics rated each of the…
They shall not pass. These words, which served as the rallying cry in the fight against Mosley’s Blackshirts, still grace the red plaque near the entry to Cable Street in London today. In the rich history of the British labour movement…
A series of top New Labour figures warned about the party's increasing difficulties on the issue of immigration over a decade ago, Alastair Campbell has revealed. Both Gordon Brown and former Labour strategist Philip Gould both argued that…
Tony Blair came to the brink of resigning as prime minister in the hope of being named president of the European Commission, it is revealed today. Blair, who was "ground down" by conflicts with Gordon Brown, had begun to sound out other…
A Labour Party in civil war. Militancy. Entryism. Racially-motivated murders. Strikes in the public sector. The rise of nationalism. Phoney empire wars. Riots on the streets and a quasi para-military police force. Eighties Britain was a…
Wally Burley: 14 September 1930 - 27 August 2016. Wally Burley was a man of conviction- and that conviction carried him into the arms of the Labour Party he loved. For many youngsters growing up in the Labour family in the 1970s, Wally…
The very first article I published as a politics lecturer, over a decade ago, was a reinterpretation of Michael Foot’s handling of the Militant Tendency. In recent weeks, the Militant Tendency has, once again, been the subject of a great…
