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It’s not been an easy time for anyone on the left in Britain. The pandemic and the appalling way the #ToxicTories have responded to it are obviously dominating most of our waking – and often sleeping – lives. But for those of us on the Labour left there were points of potential demoralisation (...)
Today’s Labour leadership election is a defeat for the Left. But the real victory for our opponents would be watching the forces we have amassed in recent years scatter to the wind.
Mathieu Kassovitz’s 1995 epic La Haine, tracing the lives of disenfranchised youth in the Parisian slums, begins (...)
Despite today’s defeat for the Left in the leadership election, Corbyn’s policies remain overwhelmingly popular among Labour members. And Corbyn’s policies are the only way out of the economic crisis we find ourselves in.
Most people could have been forgiven for forgetting that, over the last several months, Labour members have been in the process of deciding their next leader. Clearly, the Labour leadership contest has been overtaken by events, but even before the coronavirus crisis hit many saw the (...)
Jeremy Corbyn was announced Labour leader on 12 September 2015, having defied initial odds of 200-1 to succeed Ed Miliband in a victory virtually nobody expected – including many MPs who nominated him.
But before Corbyn had even been declared leader, MPs in his own party had already begun (...)
Phil Hearse takes a closer look at the anatomy of Labour’s historic defeat.
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‘Why we lost’ is a recurrent theme in left-wing blogs and magazines, and naturally so. Many, like Laura Piddock’s painfully honest Letter to the Movement[1], are full of defiance and determination not to bow (...)
We must now ensure that the working class, in all its diversity, is the driving force within our party.
We are living in highly volatile times. Two-and-a-half years ago, in the first general election I contested as Labour leader, our party increased its share of the popular vote by 10 (...)
Campaign group has hired more staff and turbo-charged its digital strategy in support of Labour
Momentum is attempting to lead a sophisticated campaign operation for Labour by combining traditional doorstep conversations with bespoke websites, a few borrowed ideas from the US and innovative (...)
The grassroots group Momentum was an instrumental campaigning force for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party during the 2017 election. Now the group is bigger and stronger, and preparing for victory next month.
Momentum has always been a grassroots organization. Formed in 2015 with a mandate to protect (...)
This year’s Labour conference was a dramatic event, in which left wing anti-Brexit activists drove the agenda, writes Michael Chessum, National Coordinator of Another Europe is Possible.
Standing back and looking objectively at the evolution of Labour’s Brexit policy, it is difficult not to do a (...)
When Holly Rigby got back to school last week, she received a special reception from her colleagues. They had seen her on the news, and wanted to congratulate her. A grassroots campaign committed to abolishing private schools, one she helped create just months ago, was officially endorsed by (...)
Seb Cooke writes on his experiences at The World Transformed festival (21-24 September 2019) in Brighton.
The World Transformed is pretty much just nailing it. I know that’s a pretty unhelpful way to start a review but if I was forced to summarise it then it absolutely is nailing it. I made the (...)
For decades a closed network of lobbyists and journalists policed what was politically possible. Now a democratic uprising is transforming the debate.
A common criticism of left-wing politics is that activists always know what they are against, but struggle to articulate what they are for. (...)
Activists are pushing for a hard line on issues such as private schools and housing
With a general election likely to come within months, or perhaps even weeks, Labour activists are pushing for a series of transformative policies to be included in the party’s manifesto, to make it the party’s (...)
The Labour Party cnference is shaping up to be a false contest between Europe and the environment. It doesn’t have to be this way
Atmospherically speaking, Brexit will certainly dominate Labour’s conference, as it has for the Liberal Democrats, and will for the Tories. All the conversations outside the hall, in fringe meetings, on beaches, in pubs, either side of the karaoke (activists love microphones, no one knows why) will revolve around it. The “Love Corbyn, Hate Brexit” tote bags will have been updated. (...)
Momentum founder and Corbyn ally Jon Lansman wins NEC backing to effectively abolish Labour Students
The founder of Momentum, a key ally of Jeremy Corbyn, has succeeded in a bid to make the party effectively abolish its 40-year-old student wing, which is dominated by the more centrist side of (...)
Vast majority of motions submitted to party congress call for Labour Party to explicitly back remain
Labour will face increased pressure from local party activists to adopt a more wholehearted anti-Brexit stance at its upcoming conference, according to an analysis of submitted motions which shows 90% want the party to openly back remain in any future referendum.
The scrutiny of the 90 motions connected to Brexit tabled by local parties ahead of the conference in Brighton, which will begin on Saturday 21 (...)
Motions going forward to this month’s party conference include a four-day week and the abolition of private schools
Labour activists are planning to put forward the most radical set of ideas ever proposed at party conference later this month as they try to shape the manifesto for an expected (...)
In the wake of the 2017 general election, a hastily deleted poll conducted by the Tory-funded think tank Bright Blue revealed that climate change was ranked the number one issue for under 28s in the UK, trumping public service provision and the economy for the first time. Recent events have (...)
Just as the latest round of witch hunting antisemitism allegations against Jeremy Corbyn has reached its crescendo something particularly vile has emerged from the woodwork – a 2400-word open letter to Corbyn from Sean Matgamna of the AWL (Alliance for Workers Liberty) , an organisation claiming (...)
Anti-fascist demonstration organised by Unite against Fascism and Stand Up to Racism in London on October 13.
Demonstrations on successive weekends in London last month shone a spotlight on major political rifts – in the major parties and in the political left.
On October 13, the extreme (...)
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