Chris Marsden reflects on how the Haltemprice and Howden by-election illustrates the mainstream, and supposedly ‘liberal’, media’s obsession with party politics above substantive issues such as civil liberties.

For working people, New Labour is a hostile entity that must be replaced by a genuine party of socialism, write Chris Marsden and Julie Hyland.

With the IMF and OECD warning that the US economy is in recession,_Chris Marsden_considers the likely impact of this upon the UK- where the total unsecured debt is more than the rest of the European Union put together..

Free-market thinking is on the rocks as banks and building societies withdraw services and turn away new customers writes Chris Marsden.

This is the second and concluding part of a two-part article by Chris Marsden, analysing the role of Alan Thornett’s International Socialist Group in British Member of Parliament George Galloway’s Respect Renewal project. The first part can be found here.

This is the first part of a two-part article by Chris Marsden, analysing the role of Alan Thornett’s International Socialist Group in the Respect Renewal project led by British Member of Parliament George Galloway. Part two can be found here

In concealing Prince Harry’s posting to Afghanistan, the servile British media have (again) played out the propaganda role assigned to them by the MOD. Chris Marsden reports.

Chris Marsden on the current investigation into illegal donations to the Labour Party.

Key foreign policy announcements, advanced as proof of how Prime Minister Gordon Brown would articulate a new vision following the disaster suffered by Labour under Tony Blair due to Iraq, have only exposed the deep malaise affecting his government, writes Chris Marsden.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown opened Parliament on Monday with a pledge to cut British forces in Iraq to 2,500 troops by spring, conditions permitting.

The Labour government’s pledge to guarantee savings at the Northern Rock building society has been forced on it by a massive public display of no-confidence in Britain’s banking sector, writes Chris Marsden.

Tensions between the Bush administration and the Brown government have progressively worsened, writes Chris Marsden, amid constant speculation on both sides of the Atlantic that a full British withdrawal from Iraq will take place sooner, rather than later.

Military circles in Washington and London are engaged in mutual recriminations over the proposed drawdown of Britain’s troop presence in Basra, with US top brass speaking of the UK’s “Saigon moment” and full withdrawal, writes Chris Marsden.

Much of the press has bought into the illusion that Brown’s relationship with George Bush is different from Blair’s, although no substantive change is apparent, writes Chris Marsden.

Labour’s turn to rich benefactors in order to fund its election campaigns was necessitated by the collapse in its membership and electoral support, write Chris Marsden and Julie Hyland.

Against the background of the terror scare resulting from the failed car bombings in London and Glasgow, Britain’s media has been filled with praise for the newly formed government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, writes Chris Marsden

New Labour’s right-wing course is to continue under Brown, write Chris Marsden and Julie Hyland.

The Guardian offered its May 22 front page as a propaganda conduit for the Bush administration to provide preemptive justification for an escalation of the US military “surge” in Iraq and possible military action against Iran.

The cloying nostalgia, mild rebuke and genuine sense of loss that pervades much of the commentary by Britain’s Guardian newspaper on the imminent departure of Prime Minister Tony Blair are hard to stomach.

The imprisonment of David Keogh and Leo O’Connor under the Official Secrets Act is a flagrant violation of democratic rights argues Chris Marsden.