Burnham, neoliberalism and AI By Frank Hansen Following the Labour Party Conference, there is certainly a new mood of optimism that the Party may be returning to its social democratic roots. While socialist ideas may be in the ascendancy, let's not get too carried away just yet. Major policy…

Tech: the way forward This is the final part in a series of articles by Carl Rowlands, which relates Stuart Holland’s development of an Alternative Economic Strategy in the 1970s to themes addressing technology questions in the 2020s. It seems that Stuart Holland’s work from the mid-1970s,…

Chinese Govt owned Syngenta to cease operations at Grangemouth, 400 jobs at risk. Previously oil refinery closed. England-based British Steel rescued. What would govt do now? UK govts oppose state ownership but let foreign govts own infrastructure. Why? Any industrial strategy?

An Eyewitness Account from Cable Street Mark Perryman recalls the role of Phil Piratin in stopping Mosley and the British Union of Fascists. Phil Piratin was a Communist Party activist and organiser in Stepney, East London, who played a key role in the Cable Street people's blockade which…

Tech Surveillance and the Attack on Privacy The fourth in a series of articles by Carl Rowlands on the impact of technology on society and politics. Palantir, in many ways, have become a bogeyman, a corporation which popularly represents the second Trump era. Clive Lewis MP has perfectly…

Has Labour returned to social democracy? By Jeff Slee I’m reserving judgement on Andy Burnham’s government for now, until we see what they come up with in the rest of this year. But the most interesting parts of Andy Burnham’s speech to Labour’s Conference weren’t the policy proposals on pensions,…

Emergency Heat Tariff needed as gas prices soar, Chancellor told Ministers must prepare an Emergency Heat Tariff to cap the cost of heating this winter, the End Fuel Poverty Coalition says, with gas prices already rising 27% year on year from 1st October and fresh forecasts pointing to a further…

Hackney campaigners welcome Homerton’s assurance of no current plans to use Palantir platform The Coalition urges residents to join the International Day of Action Against Palantir, today, Thursday 1st October After a year of campaigning, the Hackney Coalition Against Palantir (HCAP) has welcomed…

“Feeling hopeful again”: Responses to Andy Burnham’s Conference speech As predicted, Andy Burnham’s speech to the Labour Party Conference yesterday was full of content, with the proposed National Care Service getting most of the headlines. But the Prime Minister also said he would not rest until…

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Nought But Hope For The NHS The Socialist Health Association’s Esther Giles responds to Chancellor John Healey’s Labour Party Conference speech. When one strips away the warm rhetoric about red ties and miners’ lamps, the overriding message from John Healey’s speech this week was that “fiscal…