![[Ted Grant Archive – Update] I.L.P. Conference](https://communist.red/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/ted_grant.jpg "[Ted Grant Archive – Update] I.L.P. Conference")
At the 1944 conference of the ILP there were
clear indications that a steady move to the right on the part of the leadership
was taking place. This posed the question of what the left wing of the party
should do. Here Ted Grant raises the need for the left to sharpen up its ideas
and take a firm stand.
Read the full article in the Ted Grant Archive.
Former Labour deputy prime minister John Prescott died yesterday. The ex-union official played a key role in Blair’s government, serving as a left cover for New Labour’s big business agenda. The lesson for the left is clear: beware of false friends.
As Starmer’s government nears its fourth month, we are republishing for the first time online an article by Ted Grant, which compares the second and third Labour governments, and explains why reformism leads to betrayals of the working class.
The Great Miners’ Strike, 40 years ago, saw working-class women fighting alongside striking men. This experience of united struggle began to cut away at sexism, providing a glimpse of how socialism could transform relations between men and women.