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May 2020: Editorial: Labour’s Internal War; Froggy; Notes on the News; Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier; Letter from New Zealand; Letter on Causes of World War; Plague and political theory; Covid-19: Missouri’s Lawsuit Against China; Funding Public Expenditure; Exec Summary of Labour’s report Anti-Semitism; Jewish Voices for Labour statement; About ‘Labour Friends of Israel’ and Annexation; NHS Nurses; Poems: Under Concrete Steeples, Suddenly It’s Accountable Death, This Is Where We Came In.
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April 2020: Editorial: A Budget Fit For A Keynes? ; Parliament And World War One; Froggy; Notes on the News; Parliamentary Notes; Listening to Italy; Making Up For Lost Ground in the Lock-Down; Keeping In Touch in the Lock-Down; Errors of the Institute of Fiscal Studies; Cultural Cures for Anti-Semitism; Ten Pledges For the Board of Deputies of British Jews; Letter on anti-Semitism; The Demise of Social Housing; Poems: When No News Is No Longer Good News, The Fevered Brain.
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March 2020: Editorial: Labour’s Craven Candidates; 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; Jewish Board of Deputies & Reply by Jewish Voices for Labour; Corbyn’s Letter on Palestine; IRA More Moral Than the British Army; The Fascist Legacy in Italy; Poems: Pissed To Such a Degree?, What a Joke, Bad Guy.
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February 2020: Editorial: The Route To Labour’s Leader; Froggy; Notes on the News; Letter from New Zealand; Parliamentary Notes; Listening to Italy; Thoughts On The 2019 Election; Once More Into The Breach Dear Labour, Or What?; Labour Voters – Lost and Found; The Rabbi who fought Racism; Jewish Voices for Labour.
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December 2019: Editorial: The Election Choice: Labour Boldness Or Tory Timidness; 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; Jews and Muslims in 1920; Frank Land on anti-Semitism; Antisemitism and Public Belief (Book Review); Poems: Winning On Losing Ground, Technophobe, Who Rules Britannia, She’s Kinda Generous That Way.
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November 2019: Editorial: An Unpredictable Election; 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; Letter on Hong Kong; EU Parliament Rewrites World War Two; David Rosenberg on Margaret Hodge; Revolution in Military Affairs? ; Mao’s Economic Success; Craig Murray on Julian Assange; Poems: Down The Rabbit Hole.
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October 2019: Editorial: Labour’s Neutral Brexit.; Parliament And World War One; Froggy; Notes on the News; Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier; Parliamentary Notes; Listening to Italy; Rethinking Socialism (Part 2); Part 2 of antisemitism pamphlet; The Media Against Corbyn; Two Letters from the Labour Conference; Poems: The Hollow Dream, Stung , Yes, Donald Trump, We Shall All Go.
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September 2019: Editorial: Brexit Regardless Of Suffering. The 300th Issue of our magazine.
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; Unite branch motions; Rethinking Socialism (Part 1); Part 1 of antisemitism pamphlet; David Rosenberg’s letter on antisemitism; Another letter on antisemitism; Poems: Canute Plays His Lute, Blood And Lies, Rip Van Winkle Rides Again.
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 300 September 2019.
July / August 2019: Editorial: Boris Johnson: A Fearful Choice; 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; Anti-Irishism in Labour; Review of Tory Brexit ideas; Modern Monetary Theory; Israel Takes Whole Cake; Poems: Politics Of The Bathtub, Love On A Bed Of Nails, Small Game Hunter.
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 299 July 2019
June 2019: Editorial: May as Victim of Brexit; Parliament And World War One; Froggy; Notes on the News; Parliamentary Notes; Listening to Italy; Reply on Labour and Israel; Nakba and Israel; Utility privatisation; Farageism; Poems: The Horror Of Truth, Orphan.
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 298 June 2019.
May 2019: Editorial: Anger And Betrayal: The New Politics; 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; Letter on Education (4); Arabs and Anti-Semitism; Innovation & Capitalism; Poems: Come Kindly Fighter, Easter Surprising, Have Bike Can Canute.
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 297 – May 2019.
April 2019: Editorial: The Last Throw Of The Dice?; Parliament And World War One; Froggy; Notes on the News; Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier; Parliamentary Notes; Listening to Italy; Labour & Anti-Semitism plus Reply; Letter to the Guardian; Forbidden Meeting about Anti-Semitism; Letter on Grenfell Tower; Letter on Education (3) plus Reply; Anxieties of a Digital Age; Trade Unionism and ‘In Place of Strife‘; Rexit (poem)
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 296 – April 2019.
March 2019: Editorial: Paper TIGers; 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; Letter on Education (2); Fear of Socialism (by the Labour Defectors); Jewish Socialists Denying Labour anti-Semitism; The Economy and Brexit; 1919(poem).
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 295 – March 2019.
February 2019: Editorial: Once More Unto Brussels; 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; The Belfast ‘Yellow Jackets’ Of 1950; Letter on Education (1); Letter Extra; Tribute to Max Levitas; Third Avenue (poem).
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 294 – February 2019.
December 2018 – January 2019: Editorial: Back To The EU Cap In Hand; Parliament And World War One; Froggy; Notes on the News; Letter from New Zealand; Parliamentary Notes 1 – Mrs May; Parliamentary Notes 2 – Legal Position; Listening to Italy; The BBC & World War One – what about the German side of things?; The Brexit Conundrum; Underlying Brexit Issues; ‘Nae Passaran‘ – film about the 1973 coup in Chile; Corrections for “New Labour and the NHS”. No ‘Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier’ or Poems.
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 293 – December 2018.
November 2018: Editorial: The Troublesome 5%; 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; US Military Planning (book review); New Labour and the NHS – part 3; Black ’47 – review of a film about the Irish Potato Famine; Poems: Killer Graves, Two Of Many, Trump and the Synagogue Killings.
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 292 – November 2018.
October 2018: Editorial: Catching the Mood of the Nation; Parliament And World War One; Notes on the News; Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier; Letter from New Zealand; Parliamentary Notes; Listening to Italy; Kaufman on Gaza, Palestine & Israel; Antisemitism in the Labour Party; Review of ‘Prosperity and Justice: a plan for a new economy; New Labour and the NHS Internal Market; Industrial Schools; Poems: Another Fine Mess, 100 Years, Dear Mrs Merkel. (No Froggy.)
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 291 October 2018
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
July / August 2018: Editorial: Funding the NHS (the sudden discovery of a ‘Magic Money Tree); 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; Review of Pinker’s ‘Enlightenment Now’; Poems: The Sad Sands of Rafah (a sonnet); Another Death Another Shekel; Fear.
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 289 – July / August 2018
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
May 2018: Editorial: Labour And Antisemitism; 2nd Editorial: What Should Labour’s Foreign Policy Be?; Parliament And World War One; Notes on the News; Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier; Parliamentary Notes; Listening to Italy; “Tunbridge Wells has a Drugs and Murder Problem” (false accusations that Labour has an Antisemitism problem); Brian Behan Remembered (Communist building-worker and militant); Tax Evasion by the Rich (Paradise Papers); Missile strike against Syria. (No Froggy, New Zealand or Poems this month.)
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 287 May 2018
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
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
February 2018: Editorial: What A Carry On, Carillion; Parliament And World War One; Froggy; Notes on the News; Letter from New Zealand; Walter Citrine in the Soviet Union in 1925. Part 2; Local Government and the national Labour agenda; German Social Democracy; Parliamentary Notes; Listening to Italy; Comment on Carillion.
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 284 February 2018
December 2017 – January 2018: Editorial: Faint-Hearted Phil (Tory Budget); Parliament And World War One (USA and Russia); Froggy; Notes on the News; Letter from New Zealand; Walter Citrine in the Soviet Union in 1925. Part 1; Feed-the Rich in Haringey (new housing); Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier; Parliamentary Notes; Listening to Italy; Shoe Horn (poem).
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 283 December 2017
November 2017: Editorial: Corbyn On a Roll; Parliament And World War One: ; Froggy; Notes on the News; New Zealand ‘Populism’; Zionism as the Abolition of Jews; Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier; Parliamentary Notes; Listening to Italy; Poems: Disembodied Voices, Truth as an Illness, Mannequin as President.
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 282 November 2017
October 2017: Editorial: Brexit Divisions; Parliament And World War One: German Prisoners; Froggy; Notes on the News; Northern Ireland: Britain’s Responsibility; Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier; Parliamentary Notes: European Union (Withdrawal) Bill; Listening to Italy; Poems: Now They’ll Go On About This For Days And Days, Of Tills And Pills, Tourist Class, Flag Of Convenience, But Not Like That, Now Why Did I Think Like That.
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 281 October 2017
September 2017: Editorial: Brexit Blues; Parliament And World War One; Froggy; Notes on the News; Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier; Parliamentary Notes; Listening to Italy; Labour in Northern Ireland; Baby Boomers to Blame?; Taylor report on Industrial Practices; Poems: Barcelona, Gaza City, Hallelujah!, Did You Pack This Bomber Yourself.
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 280 September 2017
July / August 2017: Editorial: They’re All Corbynites Now!; Parliament And World War One: Ireland, Greece and Enemy Propaganda; Froggy; Notes on the News; Grenfell Tower; Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier (No 12); Parliamentary Notes; Listening to Italy; Poems: Grenfell Tower, Climbing The Money Tree, Not Another Burden.
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 279 – July / August 2017
June 2017: Editorial: Corbyn’s Comeback; Parliament And World War One; Froggy; Notes on the News; Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier (No 11); Corbyn’s speech on Foreign Policy; David Morrison on Corbyn and Foreign Policy; Awed by Amazing Twentieth; Listening to Italy; Poems: A New Low, Taking A Rise Out Of Him, The Sacrificial.
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 278 – June 2017
May 2017: Editorial: Trusting Theresa May; Labour has the Young Voters (graphic); Parliament And World War One: The Irish Convention; Froggy; Ken Livingstone’s Unwelcome Truths about Antisemitism; Listening to Italy; Notes on the News; Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier (No 10); Parliamentary Notes; Poems: Our Day, Gasworks, Beholding, What A Spiffing Game!
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 277 – May 2017
April 2017: Editorial: The PLP: Labour’s Timid Tendency; Parliament And World War One; Froggy; Labour’s Industrial Strategy; Worker Representation in Companies; Notes on the News; Theresa May’s letter to Donald Tusk; Parliamentary Notes; Listening to Italy; Poems: Nimby; A Steppe Too Far.
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 276 – April 2017
March 2017: Editorial: Testing Times For Corbyn And Labour; Jewish Socialist Group on Gerald Kaufman; Parliament And World War One – entry of the USA; Froggy; Citrine and Bevin Part 2; Notes on the News; Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier (No 9); Parliamentary Notes; Listening to Italy; Poems: Conditioning, Outlaw.
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 275 – March 2017
February 2017: Editorial: May’s Fantasy Brexit; Parliament and WW1 – Russia’s February Revolution; Froggy; Charities and Organiser Salaries; Citrine and Bevin Part 1; Notes on the News; Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier (8); Parliamentary Notes: NHS; Listening to Italy; Poems: Immunisation, When We Think Of Victory.
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs – 274 February 2017
December 2016 – January 2017: Editorial: Corbyn: Could Do Better; Making worker representation on company boards a reality; Parliament And World War One – Abdication of the Czar of Russia; UK manufacturing declining; Richmond Park by-election; Notes on the News; Froggy; Antisemitism in the UK; Free Speech On Israel; Debased Globalisation; Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier (No 7); Parliamentary Notes: the National Health Service; Listening to Italy; Don’t Cryogenic Me (poem).
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 273 – December 2016
November 2016: Editorial, Labour: the Unions and Workers on the Board; Parliament and WW1: Industrial Conscription; Immigration, the labour market and family policy; The Battle Of Cable St, 80th Anniversary Commemoration; Notes on the News; Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier (No 6); Biting the state that feeds it: the Apple corporation; Parliament Notes; Listening to Italy; White Cotton (poem).
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 272 – November 2016
October 2016: Editorial, Corbyn’s re-election: There will be trouble ahead; Parliament & WW1, War Policy & Peace; Froggy; Notes on the News; Tories & Grammar Schools; Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier (No.5); Blair Inc – The Power, The Money, The Scandals; Parliament Notes; Listening to Italy; Dark Deeds By The River Of January (poem).
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 271 – October 2016
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
July-August 2016: Editorial: Divisive Politics. Rules for election of Labour Party leader; T-shirts were in! (Labour in Northern Ireland); Parliament And WW1; Froggy; Notes on the News; Jackie Walker interview; Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier (No.3); Parliament Notes; Listening to Italy; Poems: Miss Social Housing 2016,; Nearer Thy Battlefield To Thee, Piggy Bank Burglar.
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 269 July-August 2016
June 2016: Editorial: Corbyn’s Heavy Burden. Parliament and WW1: Why Must the War Go On?; Froggy; Zionism; Labour Briefing on Anti-semitism; Notes on News; Letters on EU referendum; Diary of a Corbyn foot soldier (No.2); Parliament Notes; Orecchiette; Poems: Maybe You Can Explain This, Own Goal, Warming Earth Freezing Hearts.
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 268_June_2016
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
April 2016: Editorial: The Nationalisation and Privatisation of English Education. Second Editorial: Beware The IDS Of March; Parliament And World War One: the Allies and Greece; Froggy. Industrial Democracy and Social Partnership; Notes on the News; Listening to Italy; Letter about the Ghurkhas; Parliament Notes – Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation; Social Cleansing (poem); Gone West (poem).
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 266- April 2016
March 2016: Editorial: If Britain leaves Europe should we care?; Parliamentary Notes; Rail, Rents and Housing (Part 2); Parliament And World War One – Banning Bertrand Russell; Froggy; Notes on the News; Europe is Built on Corpses and Plunder by Andre Vitchek; NATO and War by Mairead Corrigan; Listening to Italy; Gurkhas; Advert for a report on poverty; Wow it’s Jeremy!; Thank You For Self-Harming (poem).
Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 265 – March 2016
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
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