As if Baron Glasman's 'Blue Labour' was not enough to stomach, Luke Bozier has offered up something even more noxious. In an article written for Labour List, Bozier has suggested that the British Labour Party should consider, of all things, adopting the platform of the American 'tea party movement'!?

Bozier concedes that 'the tactics the group and many of its representatives use to achieve their political goals are nothing short of political thuggery', but he nevertheless argues that...

Two threads on this board have caught my eye over recent days. The first concerns how the ISO (US) is funded, and the second addresses the mythology that has come to surround the 'Bolshevik newspapers', Iskra and Pravda.

The ISO discussion is based on some revelations that came to light via the financial returns of one of its front organisations, The Center for Economic Research and Social Change. This document, in short, shows them to have received funding from a liberal NGO - $250k...

In my last entry on the public sector pensions dispute in Britain, which was, incidentally, also my first entry, I argued that the most fundamental question of the class movement is whether it has organised itself into a distinct political party for its own interests. This means that a working class party must be capable of advancing working class demands, which although something of a tautology, is also a point which should not be forgot. For too many on the radical left the simple cry of 'revolution'...