Their Brexit, Our Lives and Our Planet
10 December 2018Posted by W
Personal view from an AF member. Was there ever a better time to show that our political system is not just unfair and dangerous, but…
The SNP, Scottish Nationalism, and the Class Struggle: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
4 October 2015Posted by AFed
An analysis of the effects of the Scottish independence referendum on class struggle in Scotland.
[Repost] This Is Not Our Victory
12 September 2015Posted by AFed
Our comrades in Red and Black Leeds take a look at Jeremy Corbyn’s victory in the Labour Party leadership race.
JC’s not our Saviour (but lefties say he is)
15 August 2015Posted by AFed
Many on the left are talking up Jeremy Corbyn’s attempt to become leader. This piece argues that we shouldn’t be taken in by yet another entry in the long line of ‘new hopes of the left’.
The Myth of 1945
14 July 2015Posted by AFed
While many on the left look back at the 1945-51 Labour Government as a Golden Age, what did the party actually do while in power? And what lessons can we take for today?
Owen Jones on Parliamentary Socialism
11 July 2015Posted by AFed
Owen Jones accidentally says the most politically astute thing he will ever come out with.
New Labour’s New Deal = Dirty Deal
23 March 2009Posted by AFed
We’re used to changes in welfare benefits happening so slowly and quietly you’d hardly notice them. So unless you’re getting benefit yourself, you might be forgiven for not even knowing that unemployment benefit and income support were put together as the Job Seekers Allowance in October 1996. Then there was Project Work, a Conservative experiment being tried out in 30 towns from last April onwards, continuing under the Labour government up to the present day.
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