Read regular columns by Jim Mortimer, former general secretary of the Labour Party and members of the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs

Winning back Labour voters
Ken Livingstone analyses Labour's electoral prospects and the policies needed if Labour is to win a fourth term
Labour needs an independent foreign policy
Jeremy Corbyn MP calls for Tony Blair to listen to his party members instead of George W. Bush
More action needed now for equal pay
Diana Holland of the TGWU outlines the problem of unequal pay and key recommendations for solving it

State funding of parties threatens union link
Kelvin Hopkins MP warns that state funding is the wrong way to fund political parties
No to Trident replacement
Kate Hudson of CND examines Tony Blair's impending 'nuclear legacy' and warns of a confrontation with China
State funding will not deal with corruption
Diane Abbott MP puts the recent loans scandal in perspective
Stopping the BNP's advance on 4 May
John Campbell of UAF explains the strategy needed to defeat the fascist BNP in the local elections
Securing Royal Mail's future in the public sector
The Royal Mail needs investment and must be kept public, argues Billy Hayes, CWU.
Reverse bus privatisation
Linda Riordan MP says it is time to reverse the Tories' bus de-regulation
No markets in education
Michael Meacher MP on why the new education bill is the wrong model for improving our schools

Report of the Labour Party National Executive Committee meeting of 21 March 2006

Iran, the US and oil
Paul Sharpe analyses the politics of oil and power that lie behind the US's hostility to Iran
Poland's reactionary right
Poland's ruling Law and Order Party is moving increasingly to the right, says Gavin Rae