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Privatisation has handed just 20 investors over two thirds of England’s water and sewerage supply—and it’s time we took it back, says Charlie Kimber

First published in 1988, Tony Cliff and Donny Gluckstein's The Labour Party: A Marxist History was indispensible to those trying to understand the power and limitations of reformism. Charlie Kimber explains why he has contributed to an updated edition covering the period from Blair to Corbyn.

It is possible to stand up for the right to criticise Israel—as a victory for a Palestine solidarity activist last month showed.

Forty years ago a Labour Party government was close to declaring a state of emergency due to militant strikes

Jeremy Corbyn is inching towards backing a second referendum over Brexit

Homecare workers at Birmingham City Council are set for a five-day strike. More solidarity from other workers can help them to win, says Sarah Bates

The Labour Party is struggling to unite around a single line from which to attack the Tories

How should a Corbyn government deal with enemies that have deep roots in the establishment, asks Nick Clark

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell laid out what he said were the Labour leadership’s plans for transforming the state at an event on Monday evening.

Government ministers were summoned to an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss a Brexit deal. It was unclear whether it would be approved by the cabinet, and still more uncertain what will happen when it goes to parliament. May's crisis is far from over.

John McDonnell, Labour’s shadow chancellor, made an appeal to banking fat cats this week.

Almost 700,000 marched for a “People’s Vote” in London on Saturday.