Andy Burnham became Prime Minister, ousting the failed Keir Starmer, but will he make the difference to British people's lives that they need and want? He has made modest social democratic proposals, but his commitment to military spending and war are a serious problem.

Founded in 1694, the Bank of England created the necessary conditions for the making of profit and the successful protection of property rights in the developing bourgeois state. Over three centuries later, in a dangerously financialised economy, the great engine of state is intent on preserving its achievement and those profits by any means necessary and at sharply increasing cost to the population it claims to serve.

During the years in office of the post-war Labour Government D N Pritt was an Independent M.P. In this book he here records and analyses the Government’s acts and policies, session by session, in the various fields of foreign affairs, colonial policy, economic policy and industrial relations, and the social services.’

On the 40th anniversary of the great miners strike this book is a timely reminder of the battle to save the mining industry and the jobs and communities of the mineworkers. The strike was a great example of working class solidarity and struggle but its defeat reinforced the power of capital against the working class.

It is 100 years since the only General Strike to have taken place in the history of the British labour movement. That high point of class struggle provides many essential lessons about the nature of the movement, the role of the capitalist state and the potential power of the working class to organise in its own interests.

The UK's Privy Council operates largely behind the scenes, controlling major levers of state power and ensuring that they stay outside democratic control. It's powers are wide ranging an fundamental to issues like declaring war.

All attempts to found alternative parties to Labour have failed and there remains a fight within it and beyond in the Trade Unions and wider movements to change its policies. With no serious alternative to Labour that fight is crucial.

Tam McFall was one of the very best of the working class in the struggle to end capitalism and win socialism. He made a lasting impression on countless people’s lives.

Jury service has been part of creating consent for the system's legitimacy. But it affords juries the power to act according conscience and they have a history of acquitting defendants in political trials. This right is under attack.

The edifices of political liberalism are disappearing and the ability to criticise governments and speak the truth is being criminalised. Free speech is being suppressed by a wide variety of institutional means to narrow the window of permitted discourse.