Blog archive - July 2010

No Going Back to New Labour, eh?

Marie Lynam
26th July 2010 at 16:37
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Hello all Wasn’t it great that Clegg could only defend himself from Jack Straw by firing the bullet that the Iraq war was illegal? I take it there is an enquiry going on regarding this. It is therefore possible, since Clegg can do it, to pre-empt the result of enquiries.
The Labour Party, with a lot of help from its LRC friends and other tendencies of the Left, needs to start a revision of its imperialist stance. Starting with the ‘illegal’ war on Iraq.  [continue/comment...]
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Renouncing New Labour

Michael Chewter
15th July 2010 at 09:21
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With John McDonnell excluded from the Labour leadership contest and despite the best efforts of Dianne Abbott, it looks as though the Labour Party is now sleep-walking into a revised version of New Labour. [continue/comment...]