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Downstream: Ash Sarkar Meets Zarah Sultana. Downstream-on-Sea

At Labour Party Conference 2021 Ash Sarkar & Zarah Sultana MP shared fish and chips by Brighton Pier. They discussed why the Labour Party is so boring, being a muslim woman of colour on the left and trans rights amongst other things. Batter not miss it!

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak holds up the red box outside Number 11 on his first Budget.

Analysis: Britain Needs to Get Over Its Obsession With Flat Taxes

Ell Folan

From national insurance to council tax, Britain has an unhealthy obsession with flat taxes that hit the poor hardest. It’s time for the British state to be funded fully by progressive taxation, writes Ell Folan.

Opinion: This Year’s the World Transformed Is the Perfect Opportunity for the Left to Rebuild Itself

Mark Montegriffo and Adele Walton

After election defeats, the decimation of the Labour party and a devastating global pandemic, this year's The World Transformed festival offers a much-needed opportunity for the left to come together to build a strategy to win back power.

Long Read: Here’s What Really Happened When Labour Suspended Corbyn

Oliver Eagleton

Nine months on and the world has all but forgotten about one of the most significant events in Labour history. Oliver Eagleton gets the inside scoop on Jeremy Corbyn’s suspension and what it tells us about Labour’s current management.

Jeremy Corbyn meets supporters in Middlesbrough, 11 December 2019.

Analysis: Generation Left Might Not Be That Left After All

James Meadway

The left is wrong to take young people’s support for granted, writes James Meadway.

Labour leader Keir Starmer having a pint of Guinness with Hartlepool by-election candidate Paul Williams

Opinion: Labour’s ‘Buy British’ Policy Could Be the Start of a Bold, New Economic Approach

Nick Dearden

Labour's 'Buy British' policy could be a reactionary gimmick; it could also contain the first glimpse of a new economic approach, which sees communities empowered to build wealth from the bottom-up, writes Nick Dearden.

Opinion: Cummings’ Inquiry Hearing Was a Chance for Centrists To Do What They Do Best: Rehabilitate Rightwingers

Jamie Medwell

The man who just a few months ago was public enemy number one is now a harmless whistleblower. It's a frightening sign of how willing the centrist media is to let the right off the hook, writes Jamie Medwell.

Analysis: Keir Starmer Is Dragging Down Labour in the Polls. Is It Time the Party Cut Him Loose?

Ell Folan

Labour’s recent electoral decimation has been blamed on everything from Brexit divisions to a “vaccine bounce” and “long Corbyn”. The data paints a simpler picture, writes Stats for Lefties founder Ell Folan: the problem is the party leader.

Official portrait of Bristol West MP Thangam Debbonaire

Opinion: Police Brutality in Bristol Has Shocked the Country. Why Won’t the City’s Labour Politicians Condemn It?

Anna Lart Greene

Labour’s complicity with police savagery is an insult to Bristolians, one they are unlikely to forget come 6 May, writes Bristol student and Labour activist Anna Lart Greene.

People holding up 'Vote Labour' placards

Analysis: How We Win: The Party

James Schneider

Labour is not a socialist party, particularly not with Keir Starmer as leader. Yet it remains the best vehicle for socialism we have. In the third instalment of his six-part series How We Win, James Schneider sets out the work we must do to render the party capable of social transformation in government.

Downstream: Can the Left Trust Keir Starmer? Interview With Richard Burgon

Was the Corbyn leadership a complete failure for the left – and what can be learned for next time? What are the chances of a socialist Labour government implementing the kinds of policies seen in the 2017 and 2019 manifestoes? And can the left trust Keir Starmer as party leader after a disappointing first year? […]

Opinion: I’m a Discrimination Lawyer – the Labour Party Has Probably Broken the Law by Removing the Whip From Jeremy Corbyn

David Renton

It's unlikely Keir Starmer's punishment of his predecessor would stand up in court, writes specialist discrimination barrister David Renton.

Novara Live: May the Farce Be With You

Keir Starmer has given himself three months to find a rule Corbyn might have broken that justifies him losing the whip. Meanwhile, Johnson has decided that, when it comes to his allies, rules don’t apply at all. Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial discuss Priti Patel keeping her job after breaking the ‘ministerial code’ and Corbyn […]

Novara Live: Starmer Gets Whiplash

Labour have re-admitted Corbyn, but now Starmer’s suspended the whip. What’s the real story behind the chaos of the last 24 hours? And what happens next? Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani discuss the reinstatement of Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour party.

Novara Live: Corbyn Reinstated

Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani discuss the reinstatement of Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour party.

Opinion: In Suspending Jeremy Corbyn, Did the Labour Leadership Ignore the EHRC’s Key Recommendation?

Aaron Bastani

Within minutes of accepting the findings of a report into antisemitism in Labour, the party had bypassed the usual system to suspend Jeremy Corbyn via the general secretary, in a move Aaron Bastani argues could amount to 'political interference' in the complaints process.

Novara Live: The Fallout

A day after Keir Starmer threw a grenade into the Labour Party by suspending Corbyn, what do we now know about how MPs, unions and members will respond? With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.

Novara Live: Corbyn Suspended

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been suspended from the party. What the hell happens now?! With Michael Walker, Aaron Bastani and Rivkah Brown.

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Downstream: Ash Sarkar Meets Zarah Sultana. Downstream-on-Sea

Analysis: Britain Needs to Get Over Its Obsession With Flat Taxes

Ell Folan

Opinion: This Year’s the World Transformed Is the Perfect Opportunity for the Left to Rebuild Itself

Mark Montegriffo and Adele Walton

Long Read: Here’s What Really Happened When Labour Suspended Corbyn

Oliver Eagleton

Opinion: Labour’s ‘Buy British’ Policy Could Be the Start of a Bold, New Economic Approach

Nick Dearden

Opinion: Cummings’ Inquiry Hearing Was a Chance for Centrists To Do What They Do Best: Rehabilitate Rightwingers

Jamie Medwell

Analysis: Keir Starmer Is Dragging Down Labour in the Polls. Is It Time the Party Cut Him Loose?

Ell Folan

Opinion: Police Brutality in Bristol Has Shocked the Country. Why Won’t the City’s Labour Politicians Condemn It?

Anna Lart Greene