Planet B: Planet B: Everything Must Change – Work
Dalia Gebrial finds out what climate breakdown means for the future of work, with Jeremy Corbyn, Sarah Jaffe and more.
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Analysis: Who’s More in Touch With Voters, Labour Members or Labour’s Leader?
Ell Folan
Whether it’s energy nationalisation or a higher minimum wage, Keir Starmer consistently rejects policies that his party members support. His supporters say that Labour members are out of touch with the wider electorate – but polls suggest otherwise.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.