Top Five: The Reds’ most resilient players
On Thursday Jurgen Klopp confirmed what every Liverpool fan already suspected, when he suggested that psychology played a significant […]
No Flag Protest: You don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone
The decline in atmosphere is an issue that worries most Reds. It’ a complex problem with many causes. The […]
Liverpool 2 Bordeaux 1: No vintage red, but rebirth continues
It was a game Liverpool just needed to win. By any means necessary. Still after the sumptuous display dished out […]
Bombing Syria: The politics of despair
History is about to complete another grim full circle. Just as it did in 2003, Britain is about to sleepwalk […]
Liverpool 1 Crystal Palace 2: Forever 8,000 Steps From Heaven
The annoying thing about stereotypes and cliché is that there’s occasionally a morsel of truth in them. On Sunday anyone […]
Peace: The Only Way To Truly Honour The Fallen
Once gain the right-wing media is in ferment. No it’s not rising use of food-banks, homelessness or the ongoing humanitarian […]
Howard Kendall: A Mersey Great
Howard Kendall May 22nd 1946 – October 17 2015 I have been a Liverpool fanatic for as long as I […]
Momentum: Time To Reclaim Democracy
“What is to become of those destitute millions, who consume today, what they earned yesterday; who have created the greatness […]
In Space Nobody can Hear You Dream: Or Can They?
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Why I won’t be giving up the fight for a socialist Labour Party
The challenge that faces Labour today is whether to run from the fight, or stand firm and see it through? I won’t be running.
The ‘moderate tendency’ and the entitlement delusion
The subversion of democracy, even when it seeks to damage those we disagree with, harms all of us.
Jeremy Corbyn: A revolution in plain sight
In their thousands they came. Carrying home-made placards, they came. Women pushing prams, their kids in tow, the young, middle-aged […]
Dear Tom, about this Trotsky thing…..
Attempts to use the word 'Trotskyist' as an insult, are both politically illiterate and designed to place certain ideas beyond the political pale.
Why I’m voting for Corbyn, and why you should too
The idea that any Labour government is better than a Tory one sells our people short. Yes we need Labour in power, but to do what? If not to transform society into one, in which all people are of equal value, and where wealth and power are distributed equitably, then it is for nothing.
Undermining hope: The toxic legacy of a pointless leadership election
Since when has dreaming of a better world been a crime? Life is painfully short and to devote your energies to anything other than imagining a better world, and striving to make it a reality, is a life wasted.
Forged in the fire of protest: A Prime Minister for the many
If you want a Prime Minister who stands on the side of the many, then you should be heartened by a man who has done just that his whole life.
Lies, damn lies and false narratives
Labour's self-styled moderates are using the doctrine of false narrative to undermine party democracy. It is a tool Labour's enemies have perfected down the years and it should shame Corbyn's right-wing opponents.
Peace: The Only Way To Truly Honour The Fallen
Once gain the right-wing media is in ferment. No it’s not rising use of food-banks, homelessness or the ongoing humanitarian […]