New Labour is dead. The New Tories are in the ascendancy. The left needs to look beyond its existing, inbred networks, writes Hilary Wainwright

Hilary Wainwright says that while the radical left are in no position to say ’I told you so’, reviving public service values and practices is the only way to renew the Labour Party

The membership and influence of political parties is declining throughout the western world, and most quickly in Britain. Hilary Wainwright examines the role of the party in transformative politics and asks how the left might reimagine this crucial instrument of political change

Hilary Wainwright examines how new technology and new forms of organisation are coming together to transform the left and labour movements, political representation and democracy

Despite the split, members of the Respect party are furthering socialism around the country. Hilary Wainwright asks what we can learn from them.

Hilary Wainwright, co-editor of Red Pepper, reviews the role of the magazine in providing a platform and a voice for all those whose hopes of change in 1997 have been deflated by the Blatcherism that followed, but who still share a real sense of possibility for the future.

The Brazilian experience shows us that local participation can be more than just consultation, argues _Hilary Wainwright_

With Gordon Brown set to become British Prime Minister without a challenge, it is now clear that privatisation and marketisation will only be challenged effectively from outside parliament, argues __Hilary Wainwright.__

Hilary Wainwright takes a look at the agenda needed for an independent left to work towards an egalitarian vision of democracy in the UK.

From academic seminars to birthday parties, there are no end of ways to blockade Faslane, writes Hilary Wainwright.

The left needs to do much more than simply oppose the marketisation of public services - it must promote a positive alternative.

The fourth European Social Forum, held in Athens in May, outstripped the modest expectations of the Greek organisers. A report on the key themes of the Athens forum – and what might come next.

From Norway’s Left Socialist Party to Rifondazione Comunista in Italy, a new European left is emerging...

There is a deepening crisis of political representation in the UK. As the main parties narrow the electoral contest to a diminishing patch of ‘centre-ground’, who will give voice to those whose views are unrepresented?

According to Martin Kettle, 1956 marked the death knell of socialism. Another member of the '68 generation disagrees...

Members of a pan-European party are optimistic they can create a new political identity for the left.

Passion and the development of shared cultures are vital if better relations are to be forged between Britain and Europe.

More than a decade after the fall of the Berlin wall, communist successor parties are winning support as they struggle to reinvent themselves.

New Labour's crusade to convert Europe to the American economic model: Europe must unite against it.