Published by Lola Books, 2023 By John Clayden Worker's MoneyI remember well over thirty years ago standing outside one of the biggest halls in Newcastle upon Tyne with a group of unemployed workers lead by a great unsung hero of the working class - Andy Robertson an oil rig worker who had organised his fellow … Continue reading Introduction to “Fiat Socialism” by Carlos Garcia Hernandez.
Brendan Clifford (The image above shows Ernest Bevin to the right of Churchill, 8th May 1945) The NHS was established as a Communist service for a capitalist economy, made possible by the proceeds of Empire. It was a realisation of the safety net envisaged by the manufacturing capitalist, Joseph Chamberlain, in the 1880s. Chamberlain was convinced that … Continue reading The NHS—socialist order and capitalist freedom
In 2008 Conor Lynch and Joe Keenan devoted a series of 6 issues of our magazine “Problems of Capitalism and Socialism” to Workers Control. They reproduced documents of the time for and against Workers Control, with commentary, including statements by the Institute for Workers Control, which, despite its name, did not support workers control when it came … Continue reading Workers Control
The Labour Party is the official opposition to the government. What exactly does this mean? How should socialists regard the Labour Party? Finding a satisfactory answer to these questions is not easy. To answer them we need to look at the kind of system (representative party-political democracy) that the party system is embedded in. The … Continue reading Party Politics and the Labour Party – Editorial
Ernest Bevin Founder of NATO By Brendan Clifford At Prime Minister’s Questions 9th March 2022 John Healey, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence, said: “It was Labour’s post-war Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, who was the principal architect of NATO and in particular of its article 5 commitment to collective defence. Today is the anniversary of Bevin’s … Continue reading Bevin and NATO
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