Latest editorial, plus Newsnotes and News from France for June.

Also September 2016: Editorial: Labour’s Next Leader?;  Parliament And World War One : Labour and the War; Froggy;  Notes on the News; Votes on Iraq; Welfare ‘Reform’; Diary of a Corbyn Foot Soldier (No.4); Whatever Happened to the Parliamentary Labour Party; Parliamentary Notes; Listening to Italy; Poems: A Murder Of Crows, The Haven, When Uncle Sam Comes To Visit.  Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 270 September 2016

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Problems 29: Jews as ‘Collateral Damage’ in the Fall of the British Empire. Part One: Britain’s Exterminating Sea Empire (summary only)

Problems 25 – China: Blue Ants and Dangerous Reds – now on-line

• Writing in 1950s, a French writer has no doubt that Mao’s new China is efficient, clean and orderly.  He dislikes the loss of what he sees as the romance of Old China, while not denying the suffering.
• He also says “”China has therefore been Westernised for a second time, more completely than the first.  China is no longer Asiatic.  At most she will be Eurasian”.
• The article next studies what the same writer had said earlier.  And then a bizarre US science fiction novel that shows the ignorance and prejudice about China at the time.
• Finally it looks at the Yangtze Incident of 1949, and how it ended a century of Western intrusion into China’s rivers.

Latest Editorial:

Trusting Theresa May.  May 2017.

‘Trust Me, I’m A Vicar’s Daughter’ could be the message.  But the overwhelming support of MPs for Article 50 wasn’t enough. She wanted complete obedience from her congregation in the chamber of the House. She claimed, bizarrely, that the country was united following the referendum result, but that parliament was divided. She accused Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the SNP of attempting to sabotage the Brexit negotiations and of threatening to oppose a final deal.

Three Months Ago:

• Froggy; Expectations for the French Election
• Parliamentary Notes; Debate on Brexit
• Newsnotes: Malignant Populists
• Broad Capitalism
• China Narrowing Its ‘Broad Capitalism’?
• Coolhearts, Immigrants and Brexit
• A War Against Islam
• Snippets
  • Aleppo – a Weird Silence
  • Elites
  • Libya Abolished
  • 2% of Climate Scientists Can’t Be Wrong

From last year, now on-line:

May 2016: Editorial: Steel – A Tale of Two Countries.  Parliament And World War One: Trade Unions and Peace Proposals.  Statement on ‘Labour’s problem with antisemitism’ from the Jewish Socialists’ Group.  Notes on the News.  Froggy.  Hillsborough; They Never Walked Alone.  The European Union Referendum Revisited.  Diary of a Corbyn foot-soldier.   Parliament Notes: Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion.  Carles Clarke accusing Corbyn.  Listening to Italy by Orecchiette; Poems.  Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 267 – May 2016

Latest Editorials:

• April 2017: The Parliamentary Labour Party as Labour’s Timid Tendency;
• March 2017: Testing Times For Corbyn And Labour.

Three Months Ago:

• December 2016  – January 2017:
• Editorial: Corbyn: Could Do Better;
• Froggy: Fillon;
• Parliamentary Notes: the National Health Service;
• Has Trump Killed Neo-Liberalism?
• Is It All the Deep State?
• Russia Aggressively Defending Itself
• Pet Nazis as Good Nazis
• Wear Your Poppy In Praise of Senseless Bloodshed
• February 2017:
• Editorial: May’s Fantasy Brexit;
• Froggy;  the French National Front;
• Parliamentary Notes:NHS;
• Russia’s Aggressive Support for Self-Determination
• Blame It On The Boomers
• Green China?
• Die Hard as a Dangerous Driver
• Or Just Die
• Sorrows of South Sudan
• Sod Your Silly Oaths

From last year, now on-line:

• April 2016:
• Editorial: The Nationalisation and Privatisation of English Education.
• Parliament And World War One: the Allies and Greece;
• Industrial Democracy and Social Partnership;
• Letter about the Ghurkhas;
• Triumph of the Trump
• Sanders Revives US Socialism
• China Plays Safe
• The Civil War in Islam
• Parliament Notes – Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation;
• Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 266- April 2016
• March 2016:
• Editorial: If Britain leaves Europe should we care?; Rail, Rents and Housing (Part 2); Parliament And World War One – Banning Bertrand Russell;
• Europe is Built on Corpses and Plunder by Andre Vitchek;
• NATO and War by Mairead Corrigan;
• Thatcherism – Full of False Promises
• Young People Suffering
• Economic Stagnation: Praise the Bankers
• Gurkhas;
• Advert for a report on poverty

February 2016: Editorial: Open Letter to Hilary Benn on the Syrian Bombing; Parliament And World War One: ‘Defence of the Realm‘ against Betrand Russell; Corbyn’s Voting Record; MP’s Letters About the Syrian Bombing; ADS Annual Dinner: Aerospace, defence, securtiy, making friends with MPs; Rail, Rents and Housing (Part 1); Froggy;  Welfare and Work Reform Bill: Interview with Paul Morrison; Parliamentary Notes; Listening to Italy. Guernica Still Burns (poem); No Hounding Socialism (poem); Prime Minister’s Question Time (poem).  Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 264 February 2016.

February 2017: Editorial: May’s Fantasy Brexit; Parliament and WW1; Froggy; Charities and Organiser Salaries; Citrine and Bevin Part 1; Notes on the News; Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier (8); Parliament Notes; Listening to Italy by Orecchiette; Immunisation (poem); When We Think Of Victory (poem);