The Lessons of the 1926 General Strike: Marxism 1996
Weighing in at 550 pages, including a long and detailed index, Jad Adams’s biography of Tony Benn is just the sort of traditional and detailed work of biography that befits a politician who was an MP for half a century and who became a government minister, won promotion to the Cabinet and served his last
The recent UK demonstrations by students against the huge increase in university fees has provided the latest example of media coverage of such events: they are often presented as being motivated by violence which endangers the fabric of our society.
The referendum on voting reform in May will see strange bed-fellows in both the No and Yes camps. Much of the left of the Labour Party will be supporting AV, including Ken Livingstone, Jon Cruddas and Tony Benn, as well as Sam Tarry, Chair of Young Labour. AV is also supported by bloggers Sunder Katwala, Sunny Hundal
Coalition of Resistance Against Cuts & Privatisation | Newsletter 4 | October 6 Protest at Downing Street on 20 October US Civil Rights activists Jessie Jackson is the latest speaker to confirm for the protest Stop the Con-Dem cuts! Build the Resistance! Can’t Pay, Won’t Pay! Speakers include Tony Benn, Caroline Lucas MP, Jessie Jackson, Jeremy Dear (NUJ) Dot
