John Stewart, Hackney North & Stoke Newington CLP, looks at the leadership’s abuse of the party’s disciplinary system. Labour approaches its Annual Conference in a state of some distress. The party is faced with a consistent Tory poll lead, discontent and disillusionment among a steadily falling membership and a quarter of staff about to lose… Continue reading Purging Labour’s Left
Richard Price reviews Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers by Elaine Mokhtefi, Verso 241pp. £9.99 Born into a secular Jewish family in Depression-era America, Elaine Klein “had little idea of what being Jewish meant” except from the era’s pervasive antisemitism. Her lack of a sense of belonging was deepened by the family… Continue reading Algerian Revolution
Richard Price reviews Corbynism: What Went Wrong? By Martin Thomas (Phoenix Press, 60 pp, £4) Days of Hope On 13th June 2015, outside the SWP’s Marxism fest, a leading member of Workers Liberty gave me a half-hour ear bashing for “wasting my time in the Labour Party”. Nominations for the Labour leadership contest were due… Continue reading Corbynism from the Ground Floor
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