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Denis Healey: August 30 1917 – October 3 2015
ROGER BAGLEY surveys the life of a former Labour chancellor who was a thorn in the side of the party left – yet sided with them when it came to Blair’s war crimes
19.01.1930-23.04.2026
Kate Clark pays tribute to Ricardo, whose life spanned the hopes of Allende’s Chile, the horrors of military dictatorship and decades of campaigning for justice in exile
The electoral cost of Labour’s stance on Gaza is impossible to ignore – the new leadership must take heed, argues PETER LEARY
After the dismissal of union representatives and years of precarious working conditions, Kimpton Clocktower workers are drawing a line, writes THOMAS BELL
Burnham’s Makerfield triumph offers the party the opportunity to reconnect with working people, but only if it rejects business as usual, says CAROL MOCHAN MSP
KIERA MARSHALL says there is a gulf between the privileged circles in which most politicians move and the lives of working-class youth in left-behind estates – and as a newly elected Senedd member she’s determined to do something about it
DENIS HEALEY was a tough bruiser of a politician who fought against the left in the Labour Party but ended up a critic of Tony Blair.
He started his political life as a fervent communist and admirer of the Soviet Union.
Yet he spent 40 years combating the socialist left, directing his withering fire against supporters of Aneurin Bevan in the 1950s and Tony Benn in the ’70s and ’80s.
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