Opinion: Inside Your Party Conference: Is This Farewell to Corbynism?
Steven Methven
Your Party members voted for collective leadership. But between the two co-founders, there was really only one winner, writes Steven Methven.
Tag: Labour Party
Opinion: Reeves’ Budget Shows Labour’s Backbenchers Are Calling the Shots
Ash Sarkar
After MPs had the whip suspended for rebelling on the two-child benefit cap last year, scrapping it is now government policy. And backbenchers are set to force more concessions, writes Ash Sarkar.
Opinion: The Chancellor’s New Revenue Plans Are a Boon to the Wealthiest
Steven Methven
Freezing income tax bands leaves the wealthiest unaffected, while Rachel Reeves’ deference to the bond markets is another gift to the rich, writes Steven Methven.
Opinion: Scotland’s New Rent Controls Put Starmer’s Measly Reforms to Shame
Gordon Maloney
In September, the Scottish government passed a law limiting how much landlords can raise rents. Labour’s renters’ rights bill is a joke by comparison, writes Gordon Maloney.
ACFM: Do We Still Need Political Parties?
Why do they call them parties if they aren't any fun? ACFM investigates.
Feature: How Can Labour Win Over the Flag Protesters? We Asked Them
Rivkah Brown
Out of work, unable to get an NHS appointment and furiously angry at migrants and the government – has Keir Starmer ever spoken to the people he’s trying to win from Nigel Farage? Rivkah Brown did, outside Labour conference in Liverpool.
Report: Labour Is Struggling to Keep Palestine Off Its Conference Agenda
Rivkah Brown
Palestine Action supporters, anti-genocide marchers and pro-Palestine celebrities have disrupted the start of Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool, which the party had hoped would be about anything but Gaza. Rivkah Brown reports.
Feature: Meet the Socialist Hoping to Lead Britain’s Biggest Trade Union
Polly Smythe
Andrea Egan wants to turn the 1.3 million-member Unison from a creaking bureaucracy to a vehicle for worker power. Polly Smythe meets her.
Opinion: The Mainstream Media Mafia Has Greased Britain’s Slide Towards Fascism
Phil McDuff
Any analysis of the political situation in the UK that does not account for the media is so incomplete as to be useless, argues Phil McDuff.
Opinion: Arrogant and Inept, Keir Starmer’s Hubris Is Blowing Up in His Face
Joe Guinan
Liberals and lobby journalists jubilated last year when the grownups were finally put back in charge. Now, Starmer’s future and indeed Labour’s seem as certain as an iceberg lettuce, writes Joe Guinan.
Report: Here’s All the Government Handouts Landlords Get
Rivkah Brown
News that the chancellor may force landlords to pay national insurance – why don't they already? – got our reporter Rivkah Brown wondering: what other cushy treatment are landlords getting?
Analysis: Angela Rayner Was Labour’s Designated Defender of Workers’ Rights. Now She’s Gone, Big Business Is Swooping In
Polly Smythe
Starmer’s recent reshuffle saw two champions of Labour’s flagship workers’ rights legislation leave the frontbench, creating a vacuum that businesses are eagerly filling. Polly Smythe surveys an uneasy landscape from the Trade Union Congress's annual meeting.
Feature: ‘I Live in Constant Fear’: Delivery Couriers Fight for Survival Amid Labour’s Immigration Blitz
Polly Smythe
Food delivery couriers are facing increased attacks from the rightwing press, far-right thugs and now, the Labour government. Polly Smythe reports.
Report: Reform Voters Prefer Corbyn to Starmer on Almost Every Metric, New Polling Shows
Rivkah Brown
Reform voters think the new party co-founder is more intelligent, trustworthy, hard-working and principled than the prime minister, suggesting Starmer’s attempts to woo the right aren’t working. Rivkah Brown reports.
Feature: The Government Has Been Expanding the Definition of Terrorism for Years. Here’s How
Rivkah Brown & Simon Childs
The recent proscription of Palestine Action has blindsided many who thought terrorism meant suicide bombers and knife attackers. In fact, counter-terror legislation has been broadening for decades, write Rivkah Brown and Simon Childs.
Analysis: A Sultana-Corbyn New Left Party Will Need All the Friends It Can Get
Steven Methven
Zarah Sultana’s shock announcement that she’s quitting Labour to co-lead a new party with Jeremy Corbyn already has the usual media suspects sharpening their knives, Steven Methven writes.
Opinion: The Welfare Bill Is a Patronising Moral Crusade to Save Disabled People From Ourselves
Rick Burgess
Despite concessions, the welfare bill still means cuts and greater state intrusion into disabled people’s lives, writes the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People’s Rick Burgess.
Report: Exclusive: Green Party Membership Surges Following Polanski’s Leadership Bid, Leaked Data Suggests
Adam Ramsay
The Green party has grown by at least 8% to 65,000 members since ‘eco-populist’ Zack Polanski announced his candidacy in early May, according to data from regions representing over a third of the party. Adam Ramsay reports.