Labour Affairs Magazine

December 2013:  Editorial, The TUC And Industrial Democracy.   Also Revitalising Social Europe by Francis O’Grady,  Froggy,  The “English Defence League” and Muslims,  Construction Safety, Ireland, Notes on the News, Parliamentary Notes, It’s a Fact.  Also available as a PDF, Labour Affairs 242 – December 2013.

Mary Tudor and Elizabeth – almost a beautiful story. (2011)

Business Success a Mix of Skill and Luck (2012).

Classes in Britain (2011).  How older categories have broken down.

Everyone and Anyone are Rival Simplifications of Human Nature (2011).

Evolution Prevented By Competition (2011).

John Stuart Mill twisted the idea of liberty (2011).

Market Minorities Across the World (2010).

Minterism: an English Vanity (2011).

The many versions of democracy (2013).

The Usefulness of Group Thinking (2012).

Why Trotsky’s politics achieved nothing solid (2011).

Some older articles can be found at “Older Newsnotes” and Previous Articles on Gwydion M. Williams’s “Long Revolution” website.

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Past Issue PDFs:

LTUR 206 – April 2010, LTUR 217 – May 2011, LTUR 219 – July August 2011, L&TUR 224 February 2012, Labour Affairs 225 – March 2012, not 226, Labour Affairs 227 – May 2012, Labour Affairs 228 – June 2012, Labour Affairs 229 – July August 2012, not 230 or 231. Labour Affairs 232 – January 2013, not 233, Labour Affairs 234 – February 2013, not 235 or 236, Labour Affairs 237 – May 2013, Labour Affairs 238 – June 2013, Labour Affairs 239 – July August 2013, Labour Affairs 240 – September 2013, Labour Affairs 241 – October November 2013, Labour Affairs 242 – December 2013, Labour Affairs 243 – January 2014,  Labour Affairs 244 – February 2014, Labour Affairs 245 – March 2014,

Some are more conveniently laid out at pages 2013, and 2012.  Incomplete, unfortunately.

Newly available:

Labour Affairs 235 – March 2013: Pension Reform (editorial).
Britain’s Purely Imperialist War Against Nazi Germany.
Pessimism in 2013: “Two years after the “Arab Spring” revolutions, political turmoil and uncertainty prevail in Tunisia and Libya”.
Notes on the News: The Closer To Rome, The Less Christian, Weak Britain, Finance Is a Gun, Hedge-Funds Delinda Est, Die Hard With China Dogs, Cameron of Amritsar, Muslim Male Violence
Parliament Notes: Paying For Immigrants Kids, The EU Referendum, Cameron’s “Falsehood”, De-Regulation: Has It Delivered?
France: ‘Untouchables’ Factory closures, The Agricultural Show, The sanctity of marriage.

Labour Affairs 232 – November 2012:
Shedding Crocodile Tears over the Strivers. (Editorial).
Hobsbawm as England’s Pet Marxist
The Swedish Pension System
Iran is not alone
Notes on the News: War Memories, Pussy Riot and the Boat Race saboteur, Who put the ‘vile’ in Savile?, US Republicans Don’t ‘Reap the Whirlwind’, Crazy US Democracy, Star Wars: a New Look at Luke, Red Flag, Red Sorghum, China Expects Another Successful Decade, Goodbye to the admirable Han Suyin.
Parliament Notes: Trident: Yes Or No?, Iraq: Bring Out The Bodies, Syria: UK Supports The “Opposition”, Richard 111: Bring Up The Body.
France: All Saints Day, The new President, Black nannies, white mothers, The industrial situation

Labour Affairs 231 – October 2012:
Miliband’s Clever Trick: Is ‘One Nation Labour’ a Fraud? (Editorial).
Welfare reform: pain but no gain?
North Waziristan… Not Many Dead.
Incarceration American-style.
Hitting Back: The protests in West Asia and Libya are less about sentiments of religious outrage than about resentments against the West’s political domination in the region.
Newsnotes: Disenchanted Britain, Thatcher, Mother of All Chavs, How Finance Soiled Itself,the fall of Bo Xilai.
Parliament Notes: Hillsborough: The Truth, But Not Justice, For The 96, Tackling Tax Dodgers, Afghanistan: The Triumph Of Hope Over Experience.
France: A Germanophile speech, A fair budget, The fiscal pact, The Tax on Financial Transactions

Labour Affairs 230 – Sept 2012:
Parliamentary Democracy and the Working Class. (Editorial).
The Slow Death of English Careers Education.
Inhuman Supermax
The French Pension System
France: Mayor and Senator: multiple electoral mandate, Women and pensions
Notes on the News: Real Capitalism and Transcendental Mammonism, Permissive Economics, The Night-Watchman State, Leninism — explaining its rise and
fall in Europe, Chinese Inequalities, Bad Girls Aren’t Horrified By Sex, Assange and Definitions of Rape, Ayn Rand — the Woman Who Cursed Love, Egypt’s Islamists and Egypt’s Liberals, Olympic Glory.
Parliament Notes: Syria: One-Sided Reporting, No More Dad’s Army, Labour’s Kate Hoey showed her unionist-monarchist colours, Crime And Punishment, The Feel Good Olympics.
France: Mayor and Senator: multiple electoral mandate, Women and pensions