Labour Party Follow

The expulsion of the RMT from the Labour Party is hastening calls to democratise trade union political funds - and not before time.

Capitalism as economic democracy? Paul Foot has heard it all before.

Attempts to 'reclaim' Labour have always disappointed.

Campbell‘s departure is unlikely to halt the repackaging of privatisation.

Review of 'George Lansbury', John Shepherd, Oxford University Press, £35

Tony Blair's government is now the longest serving Labour administration. The media has made many comparisons between Blair and Clement Attlee, leader of the 1945-51 Labour government. For many in the Labour Party the achievements of the Attlee government, with its creation of the welfare state and nationalisation of key parts of industry, are the high points of the party.

Cabinet resignations, backbench rebellions and increasing public anger are all making life difficult for the government. Rob Hoveman views the prospects for the left.

The Stop the War Coalition is now entering a new phase of its evolution.

Labour now plans to privatise the military.

'I WAS in the Labour Party for 30 years, from 1970 onwards. I was active in every by-election, council election and general election. I began to get disillusioned with Labour in their first term. There is a long list of reasons-trade union rights, the paucity of the minimum wage, PFI, student grants, the treatment of asylum seekers and, of course, education.

The crisis that has engulfed Blair and New Labour will be exposed in the forthcoming Welsh Assembly elections in May.

Labour Party activists talk about their anger at Blair's drive to war.