Labour Affairs Magazine

Labour Affairs – December 2025 – January 2026

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Labour Affairs –November 2025 Issue

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• On the Road to Digital Serfdom
• Rachel Reeves’ Budget Dilemma – Households and Governments
• The significance of the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike
• The failure of British industry – a personal experience
• Extracts from the BSW Bulletin in October
• Letters about the ‘Unite the Kingdom, Freedom of Speech’ March
• The Crime and Policing Bill 2025
• Palestine Links
• The death of Reagan’s Star Wars
• Notes on the News: ‘Feed the Rich’ – the Creed of Today’s Labour MPs, Who Are the Next Nine?, True-Born English – Not Replaced, But Diminishing, Black Insiders Defending Hedge-Fund Hegemony, China Still Rising, Reform’ – Fools are Fooled Twice, International Law – Never a Reality, Idealism Is Still There, Roosevelt the Hopeful But Imperfect

Labour Affairs –October 2025 Issue

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• Editorial The Onward March of the ‘Deplorables’
• London’s Anti-Immigration Rally
• Notes on the news
• Palestine Links  
• Trotskyism 
• Immigration in Ireland and Britain
• A German Social-Democratic Warning from 2017 
• Sarah Wagenknecht – Letter From Germany
• An Unhealthy Relationship—the Labour Party and the Unions
• Freedom of Speech
• Immigration – Giving Away the Lives of Others; Feed-The-Rich Privatisation; Hungary – the Wounds of 1956; Structureless Protests are Fun, but Failures; USA Resenting Indian Success; Hindu Home-Grown Racism; Poland Replacing Coal With Nuclear; Sunlight for Power and Food; Robots – Dangers and Hopes; Still Fighting to the Last Ukrainian; Did Russia Invade Poland in 1939?; Give Me Liberty; and I Will Morosely Shoot Myself; Corbyn, the Man Who Would Not Be King

Labour Affairs –September 2025 Issue

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• Destruction of Democracy
• Starmer Shuffles
• Rebuild British Manufacturing
• Unite the Union on Profiteering
• Palestine Action is not a Terrorist Organisation
• Palestine Links
• Sahra Wagenknecht Bulletin
• BBC Gaza coverage biased
• Prison for Vandalising Israeli Arms Factory
• The Rejection of the Bullock Report
• Falsifying Darwin and Feeding the Rich
• The recognition of Palestine
• Notes on the News: International Law, Lies about Ukraine’s Civil War, Labour Renewal, US Politics – Corrupt Long Before Trump, Gaza’s Yours, the Donbass is Ours ?, Should Xi try an Aksai Chin gambit?, A Mess in Bolivia, Honeybees Dying

Labour Affairs –July / August 2025 Issue

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• Editorial 1: Britain, Europe and Military Power
• Editorial 2: Starmer’s Partial U-Turn
• Letter on the PIP U-turn
• The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance: The War in Iran
• Will Trump force Iran to give up its nuclear programme?
• Palestine Links
• How the European Commission came to assume power over Europe’s foreign policy
• Letter on Real Economics
• Markets and Socialism
• Notes on the News : The Western Betrayal of Real Equality; Anarchism: a Guarantor of Failure; Iran: a Martyr-Nation for Islam?; Reagan’s Encouragement of Market Parasites

Labour Affairs –June 2025 Issue

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• Editorial: Labour Needs a U-Turn in Economic Policy
• British Foreign policy 
• Liberalism, Neo-liberalism and the trade unions 
• Palestine Links
• How Russia was introduced to capitalism.
• Russia’s “Shadow Fleet”
• Labour’s Policy on  Apprenticeships: Smoke and Mirrors
• Europe is standing in the way of peace in Ukraine
• Notes on the News: China as a Global Example, Society Exists, and Immigrants Strain it, From Slave Plantations to the Vatican, Incomplete Humans Praising Incomplete, Brain-Machines, Cure the Internet with a Digital Passport, Snippets, Young people tricked into crimes, Canada to Split?, Humans With Human Limits

Labour Affairs –May 2025 Issue

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• The Great Reform Fraud
• Sahra Wagenknecht Group—Letter to Supporters
• USA Going to the Robodogs
• A Misfit in Moscow – review
• Uyghurs: why encourage an independentist Islamist group
• The UK Nuclear Deterrent
• Palestine Links
• Israel starving Palestinians 
• KneeCap statement 
• Notes on the News: Crimea, Victim of West Ukrainian Extremism; Lies as the Poison of Democracy; Squeezing Protestors; Global But Ignoble; Fading Fear of China; Old World Civilisations Unite?; Diversity for Superior Persons?; Is Dyslexia a Woke Imaginary Illness?; What Actually Works?; US Pressure on India

Labour Affairs –April 2025 Issue

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• The Workhouse Party
• Peace or Primacy
• Parliament notes: Lord Skidelsky wants to trust Russia
• Palestine Links
• The EU Commission will take us to war 
• Reflections on climate
• Political Parties aligned with the Working Class
• Pensions are not a Ponzi scheme 
• Energy, Russia, Ukraine and the EU 
• How Ukraine failed as a multinational state 
• Has Trump abandoned Ukraine?
• Notes on the News: False Fears of Russia; Russian Nationalism Killed the Soviet Union; From NATO to NUTO?; Decentralised China; Privatisation Blight in Denmark; Kurds Admitting a Tragic Defeat; Revolting Long-term Results of the Anti-; Marcos Democratic Revolt; You Want the Moon? You need SpaceX; Why Workers Tried Trump Again; “Not being the United States is why Canada exists”

Labour Affairs –March 2025 Issue

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• What does Reform UK stand for?
• Trade Unions – what are they for?
• Palestinian Links
• Trump cancels the New World Order
• Ukraine and the supply of Russian gas to Europe
• BSW bulletin: Near Miss in the German Election
• China Talks Peace and Good Sense
• Newsnotes: East Ukraine’s Invisible People; Putin’s Modest Appetite; Vance Orders Europe: Do It My Way; Billionaires: Wealth Accumulators; not; Wealth Creators; Germany: a Nation Once Again?; Germany’s Left Links and Alternatives; Canada An Unwanted Example?; Russia’s Narrow Escape; Poland Stops Pretending to Like Ukrainians; You Want the Law, But the Law Ain’t Coming; Half a loaf is the same as being doomed to starvation?

Labour Affairs – February 2025 Issue

December 2024 / January 2025: click to read it on-line at our website.

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Editorial  Reeves False Debt and Interest Problem

• Sahra Wagenknecht on building a new party
• Is Farage against immigration?  
• Celebrating Hanukkah in Downing Street 
• Conversation with Richard Werner 
• Reflection on Climate Change
• Growth through war?  
• Russian gas and Ukraine
• Mick Lynch resigns 
• Democracy and Freedom of Expression
• UK Terrorism Act and Palestine  1296
• Civil Society and socialism Dave Gardner 
• Notes on the News  : “It’s not that she’s black, but she’s black”; Labour’s Submissive Tendency; Unsuccessful Strife, and Afterwards; Slovakia Dares to Disobey the Anglosphere; Will Trump Dump Kiev?; Snippets; How Russia Was Lost; Trump Endorses Greater Israel; Trump Wants the World: Does the World Say No?; Afghan Failure; Australian decline; Lynching the Audience

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

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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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Contents:

• 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 – April Issue

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Labour Affairs – March Issue

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Labour Affairs – February Issue

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Labour Affairs – December / January Issue

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Labour Affairs – November Issue

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Labour Affairs – October Issue

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