New Labour’s sudden concern for the wellbeing of the ‘white working class’ is a product solely of the threat they feel from the BNP. Aside from its cynicism, this move is too little, too late. New Labour made the conscious choice to turn its back on the working class once and for all in 1994. They have sowed the wind, now they will reap the whirlwind. Read the rest of this entry »

A recent article in The Observer gives the lie to the rhetoric of both the liberal left and neo-liberal right – that economic immigration is a purely benign phenomenon that benefits all. Read the rest of this entry »

Recent developments suggest that the Labour Party is starting to realise the terrible truth about the BNP – that the interlopers represent a threat to its very existence as a party of government. But its response shows that it still hasn’t fully grasped the situation. If Labour can only move within the parameters of the neoliberal consensus it has helped to build then it will be unable to halt its own decline. Read the rest of this entry »

Recent weeks have seen racial tensions in the news once more, with the antics of the ‘English Defence League’ and those responding to them featuring high in the headlines. Like the BNP, the EDL claim to be defending the rights of the majority culture in the same manner as minorities, with support from their liberal sympathisers, defend theirs. As times get harder and the economic cake shrinks over the coming years, the battle for the crumbs will, as things stand, be fought along racial lines. This is the legacy of identity politics and multiculturalism. Read the rest of this entry »

In politics, being competitive in the realm of ideas is a prerequisite to being competitive anywhere else. The following is the first part of an attempt to start mapping out an explicitly pro-working class vision upon which a wider movement might be built, namely that of economic democracy as opposed to state socialism or ‘free-market’ capitalism. Part 1 attempts to cover the philosophical underpinning, the ‘why’ of economic democracy; part 2 will begin looking into the ‘what’ and ‘how’. Read the rest of this entry »