SWP Articles

The post-budget discussion has rightly focused on the deficit, borrowing and growth. Talk of more cuts just around the corner has largely been lost, even though those cuts (or tax rises) are potentially enormous. No area of public service has been – and will be – hit...

Like a kind of Miranda (from the Tempest, not the woman who falls over on BBC1) in reverse, Laurie Penny has decided the Socialist Workers’ Party is a Bad Thing. She has looked at the comrades who hitherto she admired as part of a giant, mythological, heroic brave new...

I have always liked Tip O’Neill’s judgement that all politics is local. It rings true, and it comforts the weary councillor after another round of emails chasing a missed bin collection. It is why our local representatives hold more power over Labour’s national...