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All The Best: ATB: Stick Your Bipartisanship up Your Arse

Max Shanly and Matt Zarb-Cousin explore the phenomenon of issues being “politicised” by political parties in the mother of all Parliaments, and politicians who politicise events complaining when Jeremy Corbyn responds in kind. Enjoy and take care

Interview: Interview With Laura Parker (Momentum)

Aaron Bastani sits down with Momentum’s National Coordinator Laura Parker.

Tackling the Mental Health Crisis Means Defeating Neoliberalism Once and For All

Jay Watts

Labour needs to get radical, resisting the cross-party agreements on mental illness which foreclose the reality that though we may ‘all have mental health’ the chance of us breaking down are deeply indexed to our relative place in society.

Novara Live: Labour: Who’s the Boss?

On this emergency TyskySour Aaron Bastani and Michael Walker discuss who will be the next general secretary of the Labour Party after the riotous resignation of Iain McNicol.

Labour’s Next General Secretary Must Be Elected

Aaron Bastani

Iain McNicol's resignation immediately raises the question of his successor. McNicol's term became defined by opposition to internal democracy where it involved new members, which is why the next general secretary needs to be elected.

Britain’s Newspapers Are Waging Psychological Warfare Against the Public

Aaron Bastani

Disinformation, ambiguity and unsupported smears like the Corbyn spy claims aren’t features of a healthy media - they’re tactics of psychological warfare waged against the British public.

The Elite Stands to Lose Everything – No Wonder ‘Defeat Socialism’ is Its New Mission

Paul Mason

Clutching at unfounded fantasies, the Corbyn and McDonnell 'spy' smears show the desperation of an elite which is all out of credibility and ideas.

Long Read: How Labour’s Campaigns Attempted to Make the Political Personal

Nathan Akehurst

In both Labour and Momentum, since the general election there has been a stronger focus on making political communication personal. In this Long Read, Nathan Akehurst takes a closer look at the practical and ideological aspects of 'mass personalisation'.

Labour and Brexit: The Mason Plan

Paul Mason

The time for vagueness is over - Labour needs to box clever on Brexit if it stands a chance of ousting the Tories. That means establishing a clear soft Brexit position, a progressive vision for migration and promising a referendum on the final deal, argues Paul Mason.

All The Best: ATB: Now We’re Paying Even More to Commute to Work for the Privilege of Being Exploited

Becky Boumelha joins Matt Zarb-Cousin and Max Shanly to talk the serious issue of party democracy after a bit of to-ing and fro-ing on the important matters of the day such as “melt of the week” – Richard Branson’s little beard.

All The Best: DUP… Easy As 1, 2, 3

Max Shanly and Matt Zarb-Cousin return for yet another episode of All The Best exploring the chaos at the heart of Brexit, please enjoy and tell your comrades about it

How Can We Make Labour Councils Fight Austerity? The View From Bristol

Joe Hayns

Bristol's mayor, Marvin Rees, has boxed clever on the anti-austerity surge within Labour. Yet the question of how to turn local government into a vehicle to stop cuts - and whether doing so is possible with the Tories in Whitehall - has divided the left.

All The Best: You Lost, but Call It a Purge If It Makes You Feel Better

Max Shanly and Matt Zarb-Cousin return for episode three of All The Best, with a new feature – “Melt of the Week” – and a highly developed discourse on the ethics of growing human organs in pigs