MAY’S MISSING MANIFESTO: THE BLANK CHEQUE
Last night’s BBC Election 2017 debate was not the election changing event one might have hoped for. It was nonetheless revealing and insightful.…
Jeremy Corbyn
Nowhere to hide for Theresa May
No sooner had PM Theresa May announced her decision to go to the country in a snap election predicated on a single issue…
Labour’s left need to wake up as the clock on Corbyn’s revolution is ticking
There’s a new saying in America these days: ‘protest is the new brunch’. It means that protest is the first stage of any…
Disabled people: marginalised, dehumanised & declared fit to work
This time next month, council tax bill increases that average five per cent will have arrived on the doormats of millions of people.…
How can Labour still claim it is the party of the working class?
In the latest stage of the identity crisis of Europe’s centre-left parties, Labour is losing touch with its working class heartlands. Disastrous polling …
Come on Corbyn! Theresa ‘Mayhems’ shambolic Brexit deal can be defeated
Theresa May had bowed again to pressure from Parliament and has pledged to release a White Paper to spell out her Brexit plan…
Manufacturing Consent and the Myth of the Unelectable Left
In 1978 the Australian social scientist Alex Carey pointed out that the twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: “the…
Socialist or capitalist? Labour must quickly decide what it is
If the British left want to confront both UKIP and the Conservative Party, it must have a movement with sufficient confidence and energy…
Momentum needs to get a grip, before it drags Corbyn down with it
For the Conservative Party, the by-election victory in Sleaford and North Hykeham on 8 December will have come as something of a relief…
The New “Hard-Left”?
There’s been much discussion in mainstream circles about the so-called “hard-left”, but what actually is the hard-left? What shade of “left”? The hard-left to…