John McDonnell Articles

There is no going back to New Labour, only going forward with its 'attitude of mind' The Labour party finds success a challenge. It is much more au fait with failure – it expects it. The Conservative party ran Britain for 57 years of the last century. This century...

The ‘McDonnell amendment’ is the ultimate rejection of Clause One socialism, writes Conor Pope ‘Let’s be clear, we don’t believe in leaders,’ John McDonnell told Vice in a joint interview with Jeremy Corbyn ahead of the 2015 general election. In the same interview,...

Paul Richards investigates who will be Jeremy Corbyn’s successor as the hard-left’s anointed leadership candidate One thing you can guarantee, like rain on a bank holiday, is splits on the hard-left. The old Monty Python joke is funny because it is true. For the all...

Labour must show it understands that clamping down on tax evasion alone will not create the prosperity we need to fund our public services, argues Mike Katz Much of John McDonnell’s analysis of the government’s economic failure – and the risk to our prosperity and...