Recently support for New Labour registered at 23% nationally, the lowest since opinion polling began back in 1938. The Independent Working Class Association reports.

Jon Cruddas argues that poverty of aspiration is the biggest hurdle to a revival of bold Labour

Stoke-on-Trent faces the prospect of the British National Party seriously challenging for mayor in next year’s election. The stakes are too high for the mainstream parties to ignore the threat, says Nick Lowles

New Labour’s debts are beginning to worry senior figures in the party. The Independent Working Class Association looks at one considered response, characteristically taken from the world of business.

IWCA asks why the Labour Party tried so hard to unseat their candidates in the recent council elections.

The Morning Star tells Gordon Brown that the Labour wipe-out was a result of mistaken policies, not of failing to get a message across.

Jack Straw needs to remember that the unions support the Labour Party when it serves working class interests, and not otherwise. The Morning Star reports.

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.

Kim Howells’ photograph alongside Colombian armed forces responsible for the execution and torture of trade unionists reveals the dark side of British foreign policy, writes Johann Hari.

Many people are furious at the Labour Party, yet still see no alternative but to support it at elections. Sadie Robinson looks at why this loyalty persists – and how it can be overcome.

If Kim Howells’ recent photo op is anything to go by, solidarity with the torturers and executioners of trade unionists is now one of Labour’s core values.

The current onslaught on Ken Livingstone is driven by a neocon agenda, but the fallout could have a far wider social impact, warns Seamus Milne.

Liz Davies looks at Labour’s post-Neil Kinnock drift to the right, and questions whether there is any point in the Labour left remaining in the party at all.

What is it about new Labour that makes it incapable of suggesting a means of overcoming a lack of qualifications among 16 and 17-year-olds without turning it into a punitive exercise?, asks the Morning Star.

Peter Tatchell argues the Greens are now the only credible radical left-wing alternative and the best hope for advancing a progressive political agenda.