It’s hard to believe now, but before the May 2015 general election the Labour Party had 190,000 members. This July, in just 48 hours, over 183,000 more parted with £25 to become registered supporters and vote in the leadership election, the [...]
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A civil war has erupted inside the Labour Party, initiated by the party’s minority right wing with the backing of the media. It is a battle between the ordinary labour party members and the anti-democrats in the Parliamentary Labour Party [...]
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Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) Conference 2016 in Brighton was exciting. Delegates seemed to have more of a spring in their step this year, for various reasons. But I think a lot of the spring was due to the [...]
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The government’s prison reform programme has been gathering pace since Parliament returned in autumn 2015. In speeches to the Conservative party conference in October 2015, both David Cameron and Michael Gove called for a shift in thinking and policy to [...]
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The Independent Socialist Network welcomes Jeremy Corbyn’s remarkable victory in the election to become leader of the Labour Party. It is a victory to be celebrated by all socialists and all who want a fairer society. The size of Corbyn’s victory [...]
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Review of the film “Pride” (Pathe Films, UK, Cert 15) by Dave Lewis (former member of London Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners 1984/85). Image copyright Colin Clews, www.gayinthe80s.com __________________________________________________________________________________ Pride tells one of the many thousands of overlooked stories from the [...]
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Nick Wrack argues that it is time to talk about ending the profit system and time to do something about it. There are tens of thousands of socialists in Britain today without a political home. There are millions of trade union [...]
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Dave Landau argues that immigration controls aid the bosses. Bob Crow, recently deceased leader of the RMT rail and maritime union, publicly stated shortly before his death that he welcomed migrant workers and was concerned to organise migrants in trades unions. [...]
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Just over a decade after the end of the end of the miners’ strike of 1984-85, “Don’t Look Back In Anger” became an anthem for the 90s generation. A more apt cultural reference to the John Osborne play that spawned [...]
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