After Commons rebellion...Government must drop disability benefit cuts

Government must drop disability benefit cuts
More than 80 MPs - 67 votes against and more 'active abstainers' - stood firm in their support for disabled people and against the government's plans to restrict benefit entitlement to Incapacity Benefit writes Lynne Jones MP.

National Executive Committee Report
Report from the 25th May NEC

Creeping privatisation
There are three main ways in which the pursuit of private profit can be made dominant in industries and services previously under public ownership and democratic accountability writes Jim Mortimer.

Voters humiliate control freak tendancy
In the 6th May local government, the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly elections voters delivered a crushing rebuff to the control freak tendancy writes Paul Roberts.

Irish parties stay stop delaying Northern Ireland Executive
Representatives of the Alliance Party, SDLP, Sinn Fein, Progressive Unionist Party and Northern Ireland Women's Coalition spoke at a meeting at Westminster on implementing the Good Friday Agreement writes John McDonnell MP.

Human consequences of the GM monopolies
Alan Simpson MP looks at the uncertainties surrounding the testing of GM crops.

'The worst asylum and immigration measure for 20 years'
Neil Gerrard MP criticises the new immigration and asylum bill being proposed by the government.