Respect

Articles

Car crash on the left by Alex Nunns (December 2007)

The increasingly bitter division of Respect into two conflicting factions looks set to destroy the most effective electoral challenge to the left of Labour in many years. Alex Nunns spoke to the main protagonists on either side of the split

Any Respect left? by Hilary Wainwright (November 2007)

With the implosion of Respect, Hilary Wainwright asks can anything be learnt for the future or is it a moment simply of despair?

Respect where it’s due? by Natasha Grzincic (April 2005)

Is George Galloway’s ‘unity coalition’ the model of how a new party can break into a closed political system, or just a single-issue organisation with no prospects beyond the East End of London? Natasha Grzincic reports

Respect is diverse, transparent and open to all by Asad Rehman (August 2004)

The success of Respect and the Greens in June shows there’s a constituency out there that will vote for an alternative left, anti-war space. Had the left vote been unified, its message to the general public would have been more credible. A big left vote could have encouraged the trade unions to break open more political funds, and could have also galvanised the left inside Labour.