B) Issues Before 2024

Labour Affairs – December 2024 / January 2025 Issue

December 2024 / January 2025: click to read it on-line at our website.
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Britain on the Brink of War
Starmer’s Useless Missiles
Sahra Wagenknecht Newsletter
Class Guerilla War in the Sixties
Need for a peace movement
Defenders of the Rich
Science and Politics, Climate and Weather
The State by Gardner
Palestine links
Bevin, MMT and the Class Struggle
US policy towards Europe’s energy needs
ICC arrest warrants welcomed as ‘a glimmer of hope’ in Gaza
Notes on the News: Putin’s Nuclear Gamble , Threaten carefully , In China, Bears Shit in the Woods! , Must We Be Eyeless In Gaza? , How to Reverse Progress and Be Very Baffled , Snippets , Trump Abandoning Taiwan? , Conciliation Within China , Reaching across the Pacific , India Neglects Its Poor

Labour Affairs – November 2024 Issue

November 2024: click to read it on-line at our website.
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Reeves’ Debt Dexterity
Nationalisation of Water Industry
BRICS Kazan meeting
Union reactions to Labour’s Industrial Plan
The New Deal for Workers – a focus on ‘rights’ but what about power?
Sergei Lavrov Puts Russia’s Viewpoint
Wars of the Chickenhawks
Palestinian links
Notes on the Climate
Why the Workers’ Struggle is a Class Struggle
Sahra Wagenknecht newsletter#
Newsnotes: BRICS and the G7 Hegemony, The Unwisdom of the New Right, At Home in BRICS, The Sacred WASP Democracy of the USA, Millionaires as Wealth Consumers, Taiwan – Beijing Could Just Blockade, A Palestinian Anne Frank?, Non-Wealthy IT Pioneers

Labour Affairs – October Issue

October 2024: click to read it on-line at our website.
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Political parties and national debt
Beware the warmongering chihuahua
Unions must be the opposition
Sahra Wagenknecht—Lessons for the left?
Sharon Graham speech
The British Left
Sahra Wagenknecht on The Left in Germany
Britain responsibility for Hitler
Caitlin Johnson on war mongering in the West
Newsnotes: Immigration – the Left’s Suicidal Unrealism; Good News from Germany; China Now Allows Less Capitalism; Drowning Japanese and Central; Europeans Best Ignored?; How Ukraine Invented Itself; China’s Excellent Science; End homelessness and save money; Class Issues

Labour Affairs – September Issue

September 2024: click to read it on-line at our website.
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Starmer has a problem, Palestine Links, Sahra Wagenknecht, Unstable Times in Germany, Populism, Democratic oligarchy, Climate, Mother and Father School of Economics, Globalism and Immigration 5924, Sharon Graham on net zero.
Notes on the News: Riots by Failed Englishmen, Failed By Thatcher, Laissez-faire becomes Laissez Foul, IT Giants – They Who Must Be Obeyed, Olympic Politics, China Rising, The Vices of US Vice-President, Snippets, Normal Corruption in India, Lethal Corruption in India, Erdogan as a new Baybars or Saladin?

Labour Affairs – July-August Issue

July-August 2024: click to read it on-line at our website.
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Editorial: Starmer’s Moment of Weakness,
Articles (with links): Workers Party Good Results, Sahra Wagenknecht newsletter, Workers Party Youth Manifesto, Spoiler candidates, Palestine Links, Reflections on Climate, Britain’s immoral foreign policy, Labour and Housing, French elections.
Notes on the News:Suffering from Freedom, Rather Than Enjoying It., India – Twisting a Twisted System, Anti-Social Housing, China’s Continuing Rise, Still Fighting to the Last Ukrainian, An End to Feed-the-Rich?, The Alternative Right, How to be a Good Follower, Austerity Was Pointless, Fixing Addiction.

Labour Affairs – June Issue

June 2024: click to read it on-line at our website.
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Lords of Misrule—Editorial
Wagenknecht newsletter – manifesto for European Parliament elections
Starmer Against Workers Rights
The Slow-Motion Execution of Julian Assange
Military Brutality as a General Principle in Western Thinking
Ursula von der Leyen—War Criminal
Levelling Up will never happen under the Uniparty
Workers Party Manifesto
George Galloway in Parliament
Palestine Links
Open Letter to Jeremy Corbyn
Labour and Housing: The fate of Labour’s early land tax legislation
Britain Preparing for War
An Army like no other
Reflections on questions concerning global warming
The Slovak Assassin and the Riots in Georgia
Rail Re-nationalisation?
No Newsnotes this month

Labour Affairs – May Issue

May 2024: click to read it on-line at our website.
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Israel’s Iranian Dilemma
Sahra Wagenknecht newsletters
Assange news
Palestine links
The Russian Art of War and Ukraine
An end to oligarchs? Michael Hudson video review
Secession and ineffective laws
How fast does the deer fly fly? (Doubting the reality of Climate Change)
The re-imagining of antisemitism and its implications
George Galloway in Parliament
Newsnotes: The Strange Death of Free-Market Globalisation, Sponge-Up: the Reagan / Thatcher legacy, 1688: Parliament Without Democracy, Israel and Iran – Glad to Hate Each Other, Come Fly With Me, With Fly-Blown Quality, Snow In Belgium, Caused By Global Warming, Modi’s India, Starmer and the Errors of Ramsay MacDonald, Housing Impossible

Labour Affairs – April Issue

April 2024: click to read it on-line at our website.
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Reeves in a Straightjacket
Israel’s plans for Rafah
Sahra Wagenknecht Newsletter
Speculation on house prices
What happened on October 7th?
Newsnotes
Ernest Bevin and Zionism
Palestine Links
Personal reflection on Rochdale
The agony of Julian Assange
A Brief Glimpse at the Seventies Squatting Movement
Point of Order on the International Court of Justice
Unelected leaders in the Western World
Israel’s plans for Rafah
Edwin Montagu – a Jew against Zionism in 1917
Using the notion of ‘hate crime’ to shut down debate
“Can you not find anything negative to say about Putin?” Piers Morgan interviews Jeffrey Sachs
Newsnotes: From Russia, With Scorn, Shallow Democracy, China’s Successful Leninism, You know nothing, Bill Gates, Replacement Americans, Sad With Libertarian Freedoms, Swiss Remain Human

Labour Affairs – March Issue

March 2024: click to read it on-line at our website.
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Starmer’s Gaza Problems
Rochdale a Rebuff to Starmer
Sustainability of National Debt
Victory of Workers Party
Equality and Socialism
The Mixed Economy and Dogmatic Individualism
Free Assange
Gaza in Parliament—For the Record
Rochdale—Another View
Zionism, Corbyn and the Prince
Apprenticeships—by a Former Apprentice
Wagenknecht Newsletter
Fan-Controlled Football Clubs in Germany—a Success Story
Newsnotes: ‘Feed the Rich’ Dominates Politics, The Niceness of the Next Nine, Ukrainian Lives Matter, China Rejects Feed-the-Rich, Japanese Cherish Their ‘Honorary White’ Status, Navalny: a Martyr for Libertarian Follies, Israel’s Wrong Turn, Falling Down for a Privatised Moon.

Labour Affairs – February Issue

February 2024: click to read it on-line at our website.
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Labour, Palestine and Imperialism:
Fan-Owned Football
Sahra Wagenknecht Newsletter
Latest on Assange trial
South Africa and the World’s Conscience
Gaza debated in Parliament
Socialism and Liberalism
Fiat Socialism (Review)
Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh: “The Making of a Human Rights Lawyer”
The Apprenticeship Fiasco
The Role of Taxation
Newsnotes: Wars of the Chickenhawks; All Serious Chinese are Heirs of Mao; When Russia Went Wrong; Hindus Hard-Liners Do It Their Way; Snippets; The Aden War and the Houthi Rebels; Europe Unifying; Update on Benedict Arnold

Labour Affairs – December Issue

December 2023: click to read it on-line at our website.
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Authoritarian Liberal Democracy
Modern Monetary Theory – Debate
Workers Plan for Steel
Sahra Wagenknecht newsletter
Parliamentry discussion on Gaza and Ukraine
Labour Party Purges
Events in Gaza
Palestine Links
Housing the Low Paid By Eamon Dyas
Tax
Newsnotes: Democracy Only Real if Mediaeval?; Democracy Frustrated Over Climate Change; Class Politics in Climate Change; Gaza: Ethnic Cleansing; Snippets; China Seeking Peace; BBC Coopts a Dead Chinaman; A New Hope for Germany?; A Dope’s Guide to US Politics; Gay Games in Hong Kong; Wed Gayly, but no Throuples?

Labour Affairs – November Issue

November 2023: click to read it on-line at our website.
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Israel: A Colonising Democracy: Editorial
Is the Labour Party really much different from the Tories? 2nd Editorial
Labour’s Economic Model – Rely on the Private Sector
Early day motion on Gaza
Sara Wagenknecht Newsletter (a new German left party)
Anti BDS law: Debate in Parliament on boycotts of Israel;
Notes on the News: Israel Against Zionism? A War of Populations? Benedict Arnold Not a Traitor? Property Only With Privilege, Climate Change Costs, An end to Feed-the Rich? Poor People’s Burden, Democratic Secession – Either Admirable or Forbidden, Kiev Facing Defeat? China Purges
A state for all its citizens (Israel and Palestine)
Extracts from President Putin’s Valdai speech
Israel’s right to defend itself
Map of Shrinking Palestine
Palestine Links
Andy McDonald suspension
Starmer once supported Palestine
British Rail Ticket Offices Saved

Labour Affairs – October Issue

October 2023: click to read it on-line at our website.
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Passive Democracy – Editorial
Housing and Labour by Eamon Dyas
The Cuba president’s speech at the G77 conference
Branded: Russell Brand Declared Guilty After Questioning the War on Russia
The NHS is Dead, by Phil Bevin
David Morrison’s reply
Labour Affairs on the NHS and Historical Trends
Tory and Labour U-turns on Aid to Developing Countries By Mick Murray
Palestine Links
The NHS as Socialism Within a Capitalist System By Brendan Clifford
Notes on the News: ; Global Liberalism – its Second Massive Failure; Broad Liberalism Isn’t Working; Democracy – the Sinatra Principle; China and its Pen-Foes; Unhappy Britons; Snippets; India Very Foreign; Nuclear the Least Dangerous?; Ukraine – A Collapsing Crusade

Labour Affairs – September Issue

September 2023: click to read it on-line at our website.
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Labour Affairs – July / August Issue

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Labour Affairs – June Issue

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Labour Affairs – May Issue

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Labour Affairs – February Issue

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Labour Affairs – September Issue

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Labour Affairs – July / August Issue

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June 2022: click to read it on-line at our website. Or get the whole magazine as a PDF: Labour Affairs 329 – June 2022

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December 2021 – January 2022: read it on-line at our website.
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November 2021: Labour Must Exploit Tory Divisions, The value of an effective opposition, High Wage High Skill Economy, Moscow and Belarus, Heather Mendick, The launch of T Levels, Fire and Rehire Bill, The reinstatement of Stan Keable, Useful Work for Former Prisoners, Who Recognises Taiwan?
Notes on News: Climate Change: US failure. China the Key? How to Ease the Climate Crisis. Parliaments the Least Bad System? Taiwan – the basics. Upper London Holds the World’s Dirty Money. Iraq: the Wrong Sort of Democracy.
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October 2021: Get the whole magazine as a PDF. Labour Affairs 322 – October 2021
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April 2021: Editorial; National Debt is an Irrelevant Statistic; Labour and the Housing Crisis; What Am I Going to Do Next?: Colleges of Further Education; Ernest Bevin: Labour’s Churchill – review by Brendan Clifford ; Ernest Bevin introduces the White Paper on Employment policy, 21 June 1944 ; Orecchiette; Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier; Notes on the News; Parliament Notes.
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March 2021: Editorial: Budget Battle Lines; Notes on the News; Diary of an ex-Corbyn foot soldier; Parliamentary Notes; Listening to Italy; Youth Unemployment; The Tory Party and the Labour Movement, 1891; Walter Citrine, Forgotten Statesman of the Trades Union Congress; Israel’s violations of the 4th Geneva Convention; Letter on Job Guarantees
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February 2021: Editorial: Reclaim the State; Notes on the News; Diary of an ex-Corbyn foot soldier; Parliamentary Notes; Listening to Italy; Youth unemployment – Part 2; Key workers; Israeli military intelligence analyst given key Labour Party role 10; British industrial production after the First World War – Yorkshire.; Under reporting of Covid-19; Caravan (poem).
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December 2020: Editorial: Starmer to Purge the Labour Party?; 2nd Editorial: An Opportunity for Labour; Notes on the News; Diary of an ex-Corbyn foot soldier; Parliamentary Notes: Left-Behind White Pupils; Listening to Italy; Popular Poverty and the Very Rich Persons; British industrial production after World War One; Young People and Work in the Age of Covid; What’s In the Report on Labour Party Anti-semitism?
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November 2020: Editorial: The Deficit Myth; 2nd Editorial: Corbyn Suspended; Notes on the News; Parliamentary Notes – Agriculture; Listening to Italy; Andy Burnham and the Lock-Down; The Jewish Chronicle and the Greens; Stephen Kinnock speech on the West Bank, & comment; An Open Letter to President Roosevelt By John Maynard Keynes; The TUC on Unemployment; Labour and anti-Semitism.
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October 2020: Editorial: A Dishonourable Start; Froggy; Notes on the News; Diary of a Starmer foot soldier;Listening to Italy; Brexit Withdrawal Legislation; Artificial Intelligence and Labour; The Wrong Sort of Jew? ; Middle East Eye interview with Jeremy Corbyn (3 of 3); A Comment on Modern Monetary Theory; Poems: Wake Up At The Back There, It’s Still 2020 7, November 2020.
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September 2020: Editorial: A Clause 4 Moment; Notes on the News; Froggy; Letter from New Zealand; Parliamentary Notes; Listening to Italy; The Black and White Knife Crimes of Working Class Youth; Jeremy Corbyn Interview (2) ; Ernest Bevin: Labour’s Churchill (Review); The Conundrum of Anti-semitism; The Many Battles of the 1950s; Liz Bates interview with Keir Starmer (from Channel 4); Poem – Everything Stops For Tea.Click to get the whole magazine as a free PDF.

August 2020 Special Issue: Editorial: Is The Tory Government A Russian Fifth Column?; The Leaked Labour Party Report on Anti-semitism by Craig Murray; Letters on Churchill and Fascism; The Labour Party Report on the Defeat in 2019; Guaranteeing an Apprenticeship Guarantee by Robert Halpin; Fear of China; Poems: Decapitated, A Little Matter Of Brainwashing.
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July 2020: Editorial 1: Starmer Sacks Rebecca Long-Bailey; Editorial 2: Brexit, Covid-19 And Labour’s Task; Froggy; Notes on the News; Letter from New Zealand; Listening to Italy; Governments should never borrow from; the private sector; Nuclear Power in Britain; Poem: Bad Hair Years.
Antisemitism, Israel and Annexation; More Witch Hunting?; Another One Bites The Dust; Starmer meets the Board of Jewish Deputies; Jewish Voices for Labour on the sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey; A letter from prominent Jews to the Israeli Ambassador; Mark Regev’s reply; Labour for Israel’s letter to Regev; the Board of Jewish Deputies statement on annexation; Labour MPs (and others) letter on annexation; Avi Shlaim on Churchill.
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June 2020: Editorial: Starmer Under Fire; Parliament And World War One; Froggy; Notes on the News; Listening to Italy; Covid-Sonata; Jewish Voices for Labour; Jewish Voice For Labour On False Accusations; Jewish Voice For Labour on Reports; Why is Islamophobia Not Officially Investigated?; The Baby Boomer Generation; Elizabeth Bowen and Labour; Labour, Austerity and Antisemitism; Poems: One World Shivering, Claptrap Around A Mystery Patient.
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