 | Editorial | Make it a May Day to remember | |
 | News and views | Unite the left! | Will McMahon, Convenor of the Network of Socialist Campaign Groups, looks forward to the NSCG Conference and the left's first chance to plan for the first year of a Labour government |
| Pensioner poverty - a Tory legacy | Can we afford to pay the elderly a decent pension? Jeremy Corbyn MP debunks some modern myths | ||
| Housing - will Labour make a difference? | Neil Gerrard MP, Walthamstow, looks to a Labour government to provide some solutions to the housing crisis | ||
| Election shorts | Local Labour Parties: the key to victory & Newport East | ||
| Beyond gay marriage | Peter Tatchell makes his proposal for an Unmarried Partners Act | ||
| First we must win equality | Peter Purton and Ajay Johnson of the Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights (LCLGR) | ||
| Britain's torture shame | Centuries of colonialism have left Britain with expertise in internal repression and torture. Repressive regimes come to British companies for equipment. Eric Fergusson, of the Campaign Against the Arms Trade, reports on campaigns to expose this | ||
| No asylum from Britain's shame | What's this? A bout of subversive truth-telling appearing under the imprint of the newly privatised Stationery Office Ltd (formerly HMSO)? For the benefit of those who couldn't be there, LLB reproduces extracts from Hansard of Jeremy Corbyn's remarks in the House of Commons, 5th March 1997 | ||
| Courts versus women | Why are women being forced to undergo unwanted Caesareans by the courts? Leonora Lloyd, Ealing, Acton and Shepherds Bush CLP, reports | ||
 | Labour Party | Glasgow resists council cuts | Barbara Hall, UNISON shop steward in Glasgow City Council reports on "Red Monday" when the citizens and trade unionists of Glasgow nearly stopped the cuts budget |
| LLB's idiot's guide to electioneering | Mike Phipps, Brent South CLP | ||
| Parents of straw | Alex Taylor examines Labour's response to Tory plans to crack down on youth crime | ||
| A fundamental attack | The new proposals on Labour's structure, Labour into Power, adopted by the NEC on 29th January, represent a fundamental attack on the internal democracy of the Party. Don Rocinante explains why | ||
| The wrong stuff | We know what Tony Blair has done to the Labour Party. But what will he do to the country? Looking for answers, Mike Marqusee checks out Tony Wright's pamphlet Who Wins Dares: New Labour, New Politics, published by the Fabian Society and the New Statesman | ||
| The long march of European labour | Andrew Coates looks at the clash between New Labour and new labour unrest in Europe | ||
| Undoing the Tory damage | Dr Brian Burkitt, Pudsey CLP and Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Bradford, offers Gordon Brown a practical socialist strategy | ||
| Suspended for keeping the rules | Mike Davies argues that the New Labour attacks on Leeds North East are a threat to all Constituency Labour Parties | ||
| Splitting sides | George Eden reports | ||
| Labour abstains on PTA | |||
| Debate | Stay, fight, prepare! | Bryn Griffiths and Graham Bash, both of Hackney North and Stoke Newington CLP, argue that left activists must stay in the Party and build a political alternative to New Labour within the structures of the labour movement | |
| Make them pay for our support | Blairites may attack the policies and the democratic structure of the Party but as long as it has mass working class support socialists should stay and fight, argues Mike Phipps, Brent South CLP | ||
| Vote Labour! | David Pope, Leyton and Wanstead CLP, argues that LLB should have no qualms about campaigning for a Labour government | ||
| Britain's winter cull | The Alan Simpson column | ||
 | Trade union news | Magnet workers still fighting | Liz Knight |
| April 12th: join forces with the future! | Chris Knight, London Support Group for the Liverpool Dockers | ||
| Trade Union Notebook | |||
| Leading with the left | The Geoff Martin Column | ||
 | International | Nigeria: new union determination | Sean Coyne from LLB recently spoke to a leading trade union activist from Nigeria, the third interview the comrade has given to LLB |
| Release Roisin McAliskey! | After months awaiting extradition to Germany, campaigning has improved Roisin's prison conditions. Dorthy Macedo reports | ||
| Euro marches head for Amsterdam | Alan Thornett reports | ||
| News from Nicaragua | Mike Phipps | ||
| Solidarity with Renault, Vilvoorde | |||
| German consensus shows signs of cracking | The Michael Hindley Column | ||
 | Fighting Racism | Labour council axes anti-racist group | |
| Operation Black Vote - vote Labour | Mike Rahman | ||
 | Reviews | On line with the class struggle | Chris Croome reviews The Labour Movement and the Internet, The New Internationalism, by Eric Lee |
| The maverick genius | Dan Carter enthuses about Chomsky for Beginners | ||
| Epic triumph | Mike Marqusee reviews When Memory Dies, a novel by A. Sivanandan | ||
| Crash | Michael Courtland reviews the latest Cronenberg film | ||
| An economic alternative | Brian Burkitt reviews Tackling Britain's False Economy by John Mills | ||
| How America destroyed Angola | Mike Phipps reviews The Destruction of a Nation, by George Wright | ||
 | Correspondance | ||
 | Periscope | A real victory in West Belfast, The Sun Wot Did It, Spell it out, John!, Low pay capital of Europe & Privatisation - bad for your health? | |
| AOB | Any Other Business | ||
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Editorial Board: Graham Bash, Pat Byrne, Tony Dale, Liz Davies, Steve Faulkner, Paul Field, Jenny Fisher, Bryn Griffiths, Colin Hall, Chris Knight, Francis Koch-Krause, Leonora Lloyd (Co-Chair), Sue Lukes, Dorothy Macedo (Co-Chair), Mike Marqusee (Political Correspondent), Fiona Monkman, Dave Palmer, Mike Phipps, David Pope, Jon Rogers, Steve Smith, Alistair Ward (Editor). Production Team: Graham Bash, Gary Drostle, Jenny Fisher, Louise Kawakami, Simon Kennedy, Dave Lewney, Leonora Lloyd, Mike Marqusee, Mike Phipps, David Pope, Paula Smith, Alistair Ward. Contact LLB at PO Box 2378,London, E5 9QU. Telephone: 0181-985 6597; Email: llb@gn.apc.org; Fax: 0181-985 6785. |
