Corbyn Considers Forming New Party
The Telegraph have reported that Jeremy Corbyn is considering launching a new party. Is the story plausible and, if so, would it be a good idea?
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Austerity May Be Over, but the Tories Still Aren’t Spending Enough
James Meadway
The average household is set to be £13,000 worse off by the middle of the decade.
Blaming David Amess’ Murder on Social Media Is a Way of Avoiding the Knottier Problems
Ash Sarkar
Security, radicalisation, the failures of Prevent and the potential role of social isolation or mental health issues to name a few.
Jeremy Corbyn on Green Industrial Revolution
The Labour MP lays out his hopes for the global fight against climate breakdown in a bonus interview episode.
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.
Who’s More in Touch With Voters, Labour Members or Labour’s Leader?
Ell Folan
In opposing the left, Keir Starmer risks alienating the very voters he needs to win.
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!
Britain Needs to Get Over Its Obsession With Flat Taxes
Ell Folan
They’re outdated, regressive and deeply unchic.
This Year’s the World Transformed Is the Perfect Opportunity for the Left to Rebuild Itself
Mark Montegriffo and Adele Walton
It's time to get strategising.
Here’s What Really Happened When Labour Suspended Corbyn
Oliver Eagleton
It’s just as much of a shitshow as you thought.
Generation Left Might Not Be That Left After All
James Meadway
16-24-year-olds want spending cuts over tax increases.
Labour’s ‘Buy British’ Policy Could Be the Start of a Bold, New Economic Approach
Nick Dearden
Neoliberalism is dead. The party must propose something better.
Cummings’ Inquiry Hearing Was a Chance for Centrists To Do What They Do Best: Rehabilitate Rightwingers
Jamie Medwell
A few mea culpas later and all is forgiven and forgotten.
Keir Starmer Is Dragging Down Labour in the Polls. Is It Time the Party Cut Him Loose?
Ell Folan
The leader doesn’t need a focus group to understand what happened in May - he needs a mirror.
Police Brutality in Bristol Has Shocked the Country. Why Won’t the City’s Labour Politicians Condemn It?
Anna Lart Greene
With local elections weeks away, politicians who pit themselves against their constituents are working on borrowed time.
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. The third instalment of the six-part series How We Win.
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? […]
