State pensions: a diminishing ‘benefit’ under the Tories What was once common sense to both major parties – that we all pay a little of our wages to receive a pension when we are too old to work – has been viciously undermined by decades of neoliberalism, explains NICK WRIGHT
Thursday 15th Feb 2024 We need a truly patriotic army, not one that serves the rich Of course we don’t want to kill or die for the British ruling class, or wage wars of imperial conquest in alliance with the US — instead, we need a defence force by and of the people, one that takes care of those who serve, writes NICK WRIGHT
Thursday 01st Feb 2024 ‘Pre-war’ era propaganda from top brass reveals strategic problems for Britain's rulers NICK WRIGHT looks at why General Sir Patrick Sanders is plugging conscription in light of Britain's shifting military outlook
Saturday 27th Jan 2024 Trade unions at GCHQ – the principle was the thing NICK WRIGHT revisits the events of 40 years ago and the battle to overcome the ban on trade unions at the government’s communications and eavesdropping centre in Cheltenham
Thursday 04th Jan 2024 How the European Union captured the labour movement In 1988, the late Jack Delors ‘sold’ the EU as the future of industrial and economic harmony to a much-diminished TUC — instead of more protection for workers’ rights, what came next was a neoliberal coup, writes NICK WRIGHT
Thursday 21st Dec 2023 Sunak offers Italy’s ‘post-fascists’ the spirit of Thatcher In a fawning speech to Giorgia Meloni that evoked the Iron Lady, Britain’s PM has indicated that immigration will be the hill the Tories die on, if only to shore up their dwindling core, writes NICK WRIGHT
Thursday 07th Dec 2023 To whom is Thatcher fanboy Starmer trying to appeal? Instead of trying to woo Conservative voters by worshipping at the altar of the Iron Lady, Labour should instead look at the numbers who support a return to the post-war welfare state, writes NICK WRIGHT
Thursday 23rd Nov 2023 Palestine protests must have a realisable goal Bringing to bear our collective power over our governments in the West to enforce peace is best aided by a demand for a viable Palestinian state here and now, argues NICK WRIGHT
Thursday 09th Nov 2023 Labour’s brand tarnished for millions of voters Where Starmer endorses Israel’s actions today he gives political cover to Netanayu’s overall aims, argues NICK WRIGHT
Thursday 26th Oct 2023 Tumultuous times for the left in Europe With the left coalition NUPES rapidly disintegrating in France and the formation of a new party led by Sahra Wagenknecht in Germany, it’s been a dramatic recent period for Europe’s progressive forces. NICK WRIGHT assesses the situation
Thursday 12th Oct 2023 Labour conference 2023: promises and prospects NICK WRIGHT looks at the context behind Labour’s current position, what could do in power, what it is likely to do — and how the labour movement itself should react
