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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 (...)
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 (...)
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