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Faith Workers are Workers Too

As a church minister, CHRIS WILSON at least knows “the boss” is OK, although “the middle management can be a real problem”. Clergy need trade unions as much as any other workers, he says.

Faith workers are still contesting basic employment rights that others take for granted. Some denominations insist we are not workers at all but “office holders”.

Features

Labour in Government: The Welfare Revolt

After a week of parliamentary rebellion and government chaos, ERNIE JACQUES assesses the outcome and impact of Labour’s ‘crazy’ welfare proposals.

Winning Hearts & Minds Through Community Enterprise

The success of Sheffield Renewables has shown how attitudes to energy policy can be changed with local engagement and a co-operative business model that offers much more than profit. DAVE BERRY explains.

Labour in Government: Joseph Rowntree & the Need for a Moral Crusade

Sick of waiting for free markets and trickle-down economics to make us all better off, ERNIE JACQUES looks for hope in the legacy of a northern factory owner and philanthropist whose social reforms inspired the welfare state.

Ethical Socialists Unite!

CHRIS WILSON issues a clarion call for a modern movement for change based on the best traditions of the past.

A Brief History of Quaker Socialists

GRAHAM TAYLOR traces the birth, growth and continuing struggles of Quakerism’s ‘extreme left’ and its ethical ideas.

News

ILPer’s Radical Novel Reissued in Graphic Form

Poet, campaigner and pioneering author – Blackburn ILPer Ethel Carnie Holdsworth was a radical writer of the early 20th century who made history as the first working class woman to have a novel published in Britain.

Events

September

Thu 18 Sep

Inaugural Robin Cook Memorial Lecture

Comment

Parliament, Apathy & an Agenda for Change

Proportional representation is not the only answer to voter disengagement, argues JOHN CUNNISON. Compulsory voting, party primaries and a new parliament should also be part of a radically re-worked political system.

History

ILP Profiles: Minnie Pallister – The Extraordinary Life of a Forgotten Rebel

Pioneering south Wales ILPer Minnie Pallister was one of the most important feminists, pacifists, socialists and journalists of the 20th century. But her life and legacy have been largely forgotten in recent decades. Author ALUN BURGE aims to put that right.

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