Rachel Reeves will deliver her second budget on 26th November, facing a serious dilemma of her own making. By adopting two strict fiscal rules that limit government spending without tax rises, and simultaneously pledging not to increase taxes on working people during this parliament, Reeves has boxed herself into a narrow and politically dangerous corner.When … Continue reading Rachel Reeves’ Budget Dilemma – Households and Governments—Editorial
Month: November 2025
On the Road to Digital Serfdom—Editorial
For some years Labour Affairs has pointed to the increasing authoritarian tendencies of our political parties in parliament, noting the lack of substantive policy differences between them and their complicity in introducing legislation that erodes citizen’s rights, most notably the Terrorism Act of 2000, an act breathtaking in its scope, with no temporal limitation and, currently, the … Continue reading On the Road to Digital Serfdom—Editorial
The failure of British industry – a personal experience
By Eamon Dyas While the United States was the world’s largest producers of automobiles in 1950 the majority of its production was for its home domestic market and not for export. At the same time the UK exported 75% of its vehicle production leaving it as the world’s largest exporter of automobiles in 1950 meaning … Continue reading The failure of British industry – a personal experience
The significance of the 1984-85 Miners’s strike
By Eamon Dyas Over the past year there have been several exhibitions and events in the UK commemorating the 40th anniversary of the British miners’ strike including “One Year! Photographs from the Miners’ Strike 1984-85: An exhibition based on the Martin Parr Foundation’s collection” which has toured various UK venues. Martin Parr has been an … Continue reading The significance of the 1984-85 Miners’s strike
Letters about the ‘Unite the Kingdom, Freedom of Speech’ March on 13th September
Letter to the Morning Star published 27/9/25 THE Star’s front page reporting on the Unite the Kingdom rally under the headline of ‘Rampage’ does a disservice to your esteemed paper (M Star September 15). For it is a ludicrous misrepresentation of the day. If “thousands of far-right demonstrators” “went on a rampage” as this article claimed, then … Continue reading Letters about the ‘Unite the Kingdom, Freedom of Speech’ March on 13th September
The Crime and Policing Bill 2025
The Crime and Policing Bill now being discussed covers a great many topics; each topic is then garlanded with many amendments, making it what’s known apparently as a ‘Christmas tree’ bill. What concerns us today is the clause that intends to curtail pro-Palestinian marches. See below the Jewish Bloc for Palestine statement and the speech by John … Continue reading The Crime and Policing Bill 2025
PALESTINE LINKS
The Israeli right’s ‘time of miracles’ is over. The Palestinians are going nowhere: while problematic for many reasons, Trump’s 20-point plan to end the war in Gaza appears to spell the end of the Israeli government’s expulsion fantasies (Meron Rapoport, +972, 2 October 2025) Israel's genocide in Gaza never stopped, but UK media have enabled this … Continue reading PALESTINE LINKS
Notes on the News
By Gwydion M. Williams ‘Feed the Rich’ – the Creed of Today’s Labour MPs Who Are the Next Nine? True-Born English – Not Replaced, But Diminishing Black Insiders Defending Hedge-Fund Hegemony China Still Rising Snippets ‘Reform’ – Fools are Fooled Twice International Law – Never a Reality Idealism Is Still There Roosevelt the Hopeful But … Continue reading Notes on the News
The death of Reagan’s Star Wars
By Gwydion M. Williams New Nuclear Devices The Strategic Defense Initiative Defensive Weapons Air and Sea – Next to Space? New Nuclear Devices You may have seen stories about Putin announcing a new nuclear missile – or is it two? Claiming it can get through any defence, but how? The key matter is Russia developing a … Continue reading The death of Reagan’s Star Wars
Extracts from the BSW Bulletin in October.
Comment by Labour Affairs: The BSW is the only genuine left party in Germany. It advocates peace and anti-imperialism, freedom of expression and distances itself from fashionable identity politics. As such it is far more of a threat to the German political class than other so-called left parties and unlike the AfD it advocates socialist … Continue reading Extracts from the BSW Bulletin in October.
Lord Skidelsky’s speech in the House of Lords on Ukraine
31 October 2025 [Lord Skidelsky was allowed five minutes] My Lords, I do not know whether it is a punishment or a privilege to be put last in the list of Back-Bench speakers, as I invariably am when it comes to a debate on Ukraine. The noble Lord, Lord Coaker, was powerful and eloquent in … Continue reading Lord Skidelsky’s speech in the House of Lords on Ukraine
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