September 2019 Updates

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Labour Affairs Latest update. September Editorial: Brexit Regardless Of Suffering. .

From June 2019: News from France (Froggy), and Parliamentary Notes.
Also Notes on the News: Crouching Huawei, Falling Apple, ‘Please Copy the USA’s Failure’, Xi: Unity is Strength, The End of Britain’s Iron Age?, China Now, India Next?, Free Only If Faceless?, Populism – ‘Scorn the People’ fails, Come fly with me and die with me?, What Next Without May?, More Government Needed, Executive Drug-Pushers.

Also everything for September 2018: Editorial: Democratic Reforms; Parliament And World War One; Froggy; Notes on the News; Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier – Labour’s Code of Practice on anti-Semitism; Letter from New Zealand; Parliamentary Notes; Listening to Italy; Corbyn, Labour and anti-Semitism by Mark Cowling; Reply to Mark Cowling by Brendan Clifford; An Appeal to Labour’s NEC by the Brecon & Radnor Constituency Labour Party about anti-Semitism; Labour’s Defence Policy by Christopher Winch; New Labour undermined the NHS by Peter Brooke (part 1); Poems: Gaza; Gaza City 7th August 2014; Gaza On My Mind.
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 290 – September 2018

In Addition

Scans of magazines from 1989 to 1991.

A brief description of the latest Problems, The West Fails in Five Civilisations. This will be print-only till the 3rd quarter of 2020.

Labour Affairs – June 2019 Updates

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Latest update. June Editorial: May as Victim of Brexit.

From April 2019: News from France (Froggy), and Parliamentary Notes. Also Notes on the News: Climate – A Witch’s Brew; Britain: Mild Warmth and Gross Inaction; Zionism – All Loyal Jews Must Join a Sinking Ship; Snippets; Reform and Perish!; Boeing’s Nose-Dive; Brexit.

Also everything for June 2018: Editorial: The Resignation of Ken Livingstone; Parliament And World War One; Froggy; Notes on the News; Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier; Letter from New Zealand; Parliamentary Notes; Listening to Italy.
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 288 June 2018

The Soviet Fall and the New Right Failure

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Problems 34: Freedom as Misunderstood by Liberals

How Gorbachev Wrecked the Soviet Union
- Looking at how the man messed up.
- A reminded that the Soviet Union worked well in the 1950s and 1960s.
Notes on Asocialism
- People go wrong by imagining themselves as autonomous individuals who could and should exist independently of the wider society.
- How the New Right took advantage of moral uncertainty following the radical and necessary changes demanded by 1960s radicals and protestors.
- Why the unregulated internet is not an answer.

Also available as a PDF, Problems 34 – Freedom Misunderstood

Labour Affairs – April 2019 Updates

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Latest update. April Editorial: The Last Throw Of The Dice? Mrs May ignores mass protests in favour of a fresh vote. Just as protests in 2003 at the planned Iraq War were ignored.

From December 2018: News from France (Froggy), and Parliamentary Notes. Also Notes on the News: State Aid: Bad for Everyone Except Me, Socialist Failure?, Feed-the-Rich Economics, The Last March of Donald Trump, A Man, a Plan, an Abomination – Venezuela, Dams Damned.

Also everything for April 2018: Editorial: Rush To Judgement (Nerve Gas Attack); Parliament And World War One; Froggy; Notes on the News; Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier; Parliamentary Notes; Letter from New Zealand; Boris Johnson and the alleged Russian Nerve Gas Attack; The Wapping Dispute of 1986 (Print Workers); Poems: Eunuchs United; The Inklings Of Whitehall. Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 286 April 2018

Labour Affairs – March 2019 Updates

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Latest update. March Editorial: Paper TIGers. The eight Labour MPs who resigned from the party last month, and formed themselves into The Independent Group, hope to wreck Labour’s chances of winning the next general election. They want to prevent anything being done about the unfair accumulation of wealth and the squeezing of the needy.

From December 2018: News from France (Froggy), Parliamentary Notes 1 – Mrs May, and Parliamentary Notes 2 – Legal Position;. Also Notes on the News: Bush Senior, the Vice President, They Shall Not Grow Old: They Were Stupidly Slaughtered, US Republicans – Make Hate, Not Love, Climate Change – Not Always Warm, But Mostly Worse, Climate-Change Extinction? Or Hitler Plus?, Taiwan: Not Gayly Wed, Not Separatist, Ukraine Versus Ukraine, But Blaming Russia, From Brexit to Poxit?

Also everything for March 2018: Editorial: Labour’s Poisoned Chalice; Parliament And World War One; Froggy; Notes on the News; Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier; Walter Citrine in the Soviet Union in 1925. Part 3; Letter from New Zealand – Eugenics; Parliamentary Notes; Listening to Italy. Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 285 – March 2018

Labour Affairs – December 2018 Updates

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December Editorial: Back To The EU Cap In Hand.
Facing defeat, Theresa May pulled the plug at the eleventh hour on MPs meaningful vote on her Brexit deal..

From October 2018: Parliamentary Notes but no Froggy this month. Also Notes on the News: New Labour – the Timid Tendency Fades, Hurricanes – Abnormal is the New Normal, Times Are Changing, The Chinese Example, No, There Is No International Law, Sport Polluted By Money, Racism in Sweden, Snippets , Wider Anti-Semitism Acknowledged?, Dangers of Alcohol, Brexit.