Labour Party Conference 1999

Partnership in power - the promises and the reality PiP was sold to Labour members on the basis that the new rules would improve membership and give new rights and opportunities to members in the decision-making processes of the party. Two years on what is the reality? Conference must assert itself Lynne Jones MP argues that PiP has downgraded conference to a body which merely rubber stamps policies handed down from the government.

Policy Forum reports - take it or leave it Delegates to conference will only be able to vote on a set of vacuous and sychophantic policy forum documents which praise government policy to the high heavens. Air traffic privatisation: let conference decide Iain Findlay, IPMS Aviation Officer makes no apology for reminding Labour of its earlier pronouncements on air traffic privatisation

Only the liberals gain from PR
The lesson of the European elections is that PR is a disaster for the Labour Party, argues Dennis Skinner MP

NEC Report: Public spending less than Tories
Report from September Labour Party National Executive

Interest rates should be cut, not raised

Winning London for Labour
For too many months the London debate has been shaped by the endless and boring speculation that I will be stopped from standing, suggests Ken Livingstone

The TUC's Euro-zealotry is misplaced
Not only are pro-euro trade union leaders out of touch with their own members, they are pushing a line devoid of economic coherenece, writes Alan Simpson MP.

Where are Labour's black candidates?
In each election since 1997 the promise of a fair proportion of balck Labour candidates did not materialise, argues Kumar Murshid

Debating the Jenkins Report
The Campaign for Labour Party Democracy's model response to the Labour Party's consultation on electoral reform

Britain and US armed Indonesian death squads
Jeremy Corbyn MP, an international observer to monitor the independence referendum, reports back fromEast Timor.

Building bridges to the people of Yugoslavia
Alice Mahon MP went to see at first hand the effects of NATO bombing on the civilian population of Yugoslavia.