The Left List provides an analysis of the recent elections for London Mayor.

Labour is flailing in the face of new Conservatism, says John Cruddas. The fightback has to start with reclaiming fraternity.

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

While the government has dithered, low-paid, insecure employment has flourished like some rapacious mould. Madeleine Bunting reports.

With global capitalism facing possible collapse and the American empire in decline, a political vacuum is developing in the space formerly occupied by New Labour. It must be filled by a revitalised, unified Left, argues Richard Seymour.

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.

Power can shape ‘truth’, but not forever, says Tariq Ali. That is the lesson he draws from New Labour’s crushing defeat in the recent elections.

Labour’s defeat in the recent elections was a result of disillusionment with New Labour, the influence of the “war on terror” and the failure of the Left to capitalise on anti-war and anti-neoliberal sentiment, says Richard Seymour

We can’t just carry on as though nothing has happened. The time is ripe for a return to real Labour, writes John McDonnell.

What more can the government shut down, asks George Monbiot. Oh yes, doctors’ surgeries.

Every effort has been made during the past 20 years to discredit socialism as outdated and irrelevant. No other ideology has been subject to such an onslaught. But socialism remains the only alternative ideology that can challenge capitalism effectively and offer humanity a future. Nick Toms reports.

Brown was one of the principal architects of New Labour, and his true colours have been visible throughout that Government’s 10 year reign. The Independent Working Class Association reports.

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.

British troops appeared to play more of a role in the latest fighting in Basra than the government cares to admit, says Julie Hyland. And the chances for an inquiry into the war received a further blow with the Conservatives’ motion easy defeat in the Commons.

The Government is making further cuts in state funding for higher education – and encouraging business to fill the gap. Robert Stevens reports.

NUS: managing apathy?

The Independent Working Class Association looks at the increasing gap in life expectancy between different social classes.

Drawing on the detailed research of their book ‘New Labour/Hard Labour? Restructuring and Resistance Inside the Welfare Industry’, |Alex Law & Gerry Mooney draw “attention to some of the many ways in which welfare workers are being adversely affected by the restructuring of the welfare state and, more importantly, how they are resisting New Labour in new and significant ways.

This is the first of a two-part series by Julie Hylandanalysing the political issues in London’s May 1 elections for Mayor and the London Assembly. The second part will appear on March 15.