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    Osborne's airbrushed co-op policy
    Hilary Wainwright

    For all the Tories' fine talk of empowered workers, their plans would only undermine the public sector's democratic rebirth.

    A real green deal
    Hilary Wainwright
     Andy Bowman

    35 years ago, workers at the Lucas Aerospace company formulated an ‘alternative corporate plan’ to convert military production to socially useful and environmentally desirable purposes. What are the lessons for greening the world economy today?

    Now to complete the democratic revolution
    Hilary Wainwright

    The current anger in Britain over MPs' misuse of public money is more than outrage at the pathetic greed of public representatives. It is a fury over a deep-seated failure of public control of public money, that should now be the basis of a movement to complete the unfinished struggle for...

    Public spending, public control
    Hilary Wainwright

    Local experiments in public reform are more democratic and cost-effective than the government's centralised bailouts

    Public service reform … but not as we know it!
    Hilary Wainwright

    The need for convincing alternatives to market-led politics is urgent, especially as the government continues to defer to the financial markets rather than to challenge them.

    A place for the left
    Hilary Wainwright
    The pull of national and local identities away from Westminster is a vital clue to understanding and preparing for the unravelling of New Labour
    Reaping what they have sown
    Hilary Wainwright
    While the radical left are in no position to say ’I told you so’, reviving public service values and practices is the only way to renew the Labour Party

    The collapse of Labour ’s vote in these local elections is about something more than New Labour ’s Daily...

    New Labour is dead
    TNI
     Tariq Ali

    New Labour has suffered a crushing defeat. The Blair project of promoting and implementing right-wing policies in the knowledge that traditional working class voters would remain solid died on 1 May 2008. Labour’s vote in the local elections dropped to 24 percent, a point below the Liberal...

    Britain's financial Guantanamo
    Ben Hayes
    A little known UK government legal order forces individuals merely "suspected of terrorism" to have all their assets seized and forced to appeal for funds to even feed themselves.

    This Thursday [24 April 2008], Mr Justice Collins of the High Court will deliver his judgment the case of...

    No sanctuary this
    Mike Marqusee
    The current British policy aims to deter future asylum seekers by punishing those presently in the country.

    Despite an average of 40 violent deaths a day in recent weeks, Iraq, the British Home office insists, is a safe place. Accordingly, 1,400 Iraqi asylum seekers have received...

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