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Long standing member of the Communist Party of Britain, Andrew Murray, former UNITE Chief of staff who left in 2016 to join Labour and become a key aide of the former Labour leader has a curious relationship with the Ukraine. The admirer of the best aspects of the old USSR, who spent a year (...)
Anti*capitalist Resistance Editorial Board responds to a recent Counterfire Weekly Briefing that unfairly characterised Gilbert Achcar.
At a time of impending conflict between Russia and NATO over Ukraine, with each side driven by internal needs to intensify austerity and repression in their (...)
Veronica Fagan provides an in depth analysis of the recent Labour Party Conference.
There is a bad tradition on the British left that those who write articles or speak at meetings have to present the most optimistic view of any political situation in order to keep up morale amongst our (...)
Criticism of the leader is forbidden, while thousands of members have been expelled or left in disgust
In recent weeks, I have been wearing a badge of honour. I have joined the ranks of those expelled or suspended from the Labour party. My crime? To have supported a group, recently proscribed, (...)
It’s not just anti-vaxxers. The themes of resisting power and regaining control of our lives have been cynically repurposed
It’s an uncomfortable thing to admit, but in the countercultural movements where my sympathies lie, people are dropping like flies. Every few days I hear of another (...)
Dave Kellaway provides a left response to the expulsion of film director and political activist Ken Loach from the Labour Party.
Bureaucrats and witch hunters often fail to see the irony of their actions. Labour under Starmer has been involved in countless discussions, reports and focus groups (...)
Facing disastrous poll ratings, Keir Starmer is looking to the Neil Kinnock playbook and blaming the left, writes Andy Stowe.
There are a number of organisations seeking to influence Labour Party opinion from within. On the left, among others, you have Tribune and Labour Briefing. Progress on (...)
Is Andy Burnham a potential leader the left can get behind? Dave Kellaway argues probably not.
Support from the large minority ethnic electorate may enable the party to hold the Batley and Spen seat and “Starmer to hang on as Labour leader. But if Labour loses again, it must surely be curtains (...)
How does Labour recover from its poor showing in the May 6th elections ?
Blair and Mandleson say go right and reinvent Blairism 2.0. Corbyn and McDonnell argue for a return to their radical manifesto polices, harder opposition and bigger vision. Starmer has ordered a policy review and will (...)
Whatever happened to Momentum asks Dave Kellaway?
Momentum emerged from activists supporting Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership bid in 2015 with veteran Jon Lansman who had been a leader of the left wing movement built up around Tony Benn in the 1980s playing a key role. It grew to over 40,000 members (...)
Neil Faulkner discusses strategy and tactics for the democracy struggle.
With protests in around 50 towns and cities across Britain, often a thousand or more strong, the Kill the Bill campaign has momentum. The main London demo involved at least 10,000. Overwhelmingly young and very diverse, (...)
We, the undersigned groups and organisations, stand in solidarity with all those fighting to #KillTheBill.
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is a dangerous and unnecessary piece of legislation that endangers the rights and safety of every single one of us. It is therefore no (...)
At the end of January 2021, Anti*Capitalist Resistance held its founding conference. The A*C.R is a new socialist organisation made up of members of Mutiny, Socialist Resistance and individual activists. We hope that A*C.R can contribute to a wider realignment of the radical left when we (...)
These problems all seem to be related. The basic conceit of the Left appeared to be that it could win by concentrating on “bread and butter” issues like austerity and public services. Whenever it was forced off this agenda, its perplexity was obvious. Yet the source of Corbyn’s success had been, (...)
Dave Kellaway looks at a new initiative launched last week.
For a while many on the left have been asking, “What is Jeremy going to do?” The response of the Labour left to the disciplinary action against him and others has been uneven. The 30 strong Socialist Campaign Group of MPs have been (...)
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was suspended from the Labour Party on Thursday 29 October. While the action was technically taken by Labour’s General Secretary David Evan it is inconceivable that it did not have the agreement of Corbyn’s successor as Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer.
The (...)
Group shifts away from internal Labour politics towards community campaigns
Momentum, the political group closely linked to Jeremy Corbyn’s former leadership of the Labour party, is launching what it calls a “resistance campaign” against residential evictions as part of a shift in focus for the (...)
Keir Starmer has been praised for ‘sidestepping’ the Brexit trap, but this was always the only option
The latest Tory ruse on Brexit is tediously straightforward. By talking up no deal and expressing a willingness to flout international law, the Conservatives intend to bounce Brussels into a (...)
This country is riven with injustice – and that is one of the most effective drivers of progressive political reform the world over
Everybody loves an obituary, don’t they? The juicier the better. And what succulence the newspapers have in store. I speak, of course, of the memorials to the (...)
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 (...)
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