Despite Gordon Brown’s recent criticisms of the system’s ‘excesses’, his government is completely intertwined with big business, argues Simon Basketter.

The current economic crisis is being exploited in order to extend the neoliberal dogma that created it. It is now crucial, writes David Wearing, for the Left to engage in and win the battle of ideas to prevent this from happening.

The analysis that appears to be taking hold among the ‘soft left’ is that New Labour is losing ground among its core constituencies because the working class is unable to recognise its true allies. Nothing could be further from the truth, argues Richard Seymour.

Peter Oborne says that Robert Peston’s new book brilliantly shows how New Labour, hand-in-hand with a rapacious capitalist class, have created the conditions for our present crisis.

Britain is going to suffer acutely in the forthcoming downturn, says Jonathan Rutherford, since our social infrastructure has been heavily eroded by economic liberalism

Christopher Harvie looks at the assent to Gordon Brown into the Office of Prime Minister and concludes that the Britain New Labour created is in serious trouble.

Dave Prentis makes the case against public sector pay cuts.

Media Lens on the inherent instability of capitalism and the false promise of neoliberalism, tackling in particular the mythical capitalist “success stories” of China and India.