The Galloway-Miliband affair
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According to the Daily Mail (21 April), Labour leader Ed Miliband had an hour-long meeting in his office with George Galloway.
'Respect' and George Galloway
Left unity must be linked to real action
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The crises and splits in the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and Respect have spurred more talk about left unity. The left needs systematic unity in action where we agree, and honest dialogue where we differ, in order to reinstate socialist ideas as an option in the working class.
“I don’t debate with Israelis”
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When I first entered politics, I used to respect George Galloway, he was one of few prominent politicians with a viewpoint that seemed to resonate with my own.
Learn from this by-election
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Labour activists should not be complacent about Labour’s victory in the three by-elections on 29 November.
Many Bradford Wests?
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Lee Jasper is running as the Respect candidate in Croydon North. Meanwhile, the redoubtable Yvonne Ridley is running on the same ticket in Rotherham, and from what I am hearing, it is squeaky bum time in two places that should be donkey with a red rosette territory.
Why George Galloway is suing NUS
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The debate in the student movement over the Assange affair and rape apology has taken a surreal turn with George Galloway suing the National Union of Students.
Galloway on rape: not an aberration
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George Galloway's comments on rape, in connection with the Assange controversy, have outraged many on the left who have not paid much attention to Galloway before.
Why did Hudson stand down, and not Galloway?
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Kate Hudson, candidate for George Galloway's Respect party in the upcoming Manchester Central by-election, has withdrawn.
Missed chances in May 3 polls?
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Tory MP Nadine Dorries said it: the Government is led by “two arrogant posh boys who show no remorse, no contrition, and no passion to want to understand the lives of others”.
A Galloway spring?
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Many on the left have seized on George Galloway's startling by-election victory in Bradford West (29 March) as proof that the recently-slowing trickle of left-of-Labour electioneering can now become a surge.