Adrian McMenamin Articles

Drawing the line

Most Jeremy Corbyn supporters are not ideologues; the rest are liable to resort to turn on each other, writes Adrian McMenamin The time for holding illusions about where the Labour party is and where it is going are well and truly over. Even if you still thought that...

What will we inherit?

Waiting around for the government to collapse does not inspire confidence, but there is still a reason to have faith in the Labour party, writes Adrian McMenamin I am writing this column instead of attending my Labour party branch meeting. The column offers a chance...

The only show in town

How reformism brings revolution – Adrian McMenamin on what we can learn from a century old leftwing novel The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a book that has gone in and out of fashion: popular with British troops in the second world war it was said, perhaps...

Failing to act, again and again

Failure of those at the top to properly deal with antisemitism on the left for fear of what others may think sends a very clear message to the bigots, writes Adrian McMenamin This week a member of my branch resigned her membership at least in part because of what she...