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Green Parties must embrace class politics
Green Parties have long championed universal provision as a means of avoiding the cruelty, waste, and coercion of means tested systems of welfare provision. Universal Basic Income, for years a…
The future of the Labour Left under Keir Starmer
After four and a half years of dominance in the Labour Party, the Labour Left have lost control of the leadership and the National Executive Committee with the election of…
What does Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet mean for the Labour Left?
As Keir Starmer’s election as Leader of the Labour Party became increasingly inevitable over the three and a half months following Jeremy Corbyn’s resignation, Labour Party hacks had to turn…
Where Rebecca Long-Bailey went wrong
Jeremy Corbyn famously said during the 2019 General Election that: "There is no such thing as Corbynism. There is socialism, there is social justice.” If Corbynism did ever exist as…
Where next for the green left after Corbyn?
Keir Starmer’s victory is bluntly put a set back for the left. Since 2010, politics has been transformed with the once dominant neoliberalism of figures like Tony Blair, apparently, on…
How coronavirus is impacting workers in the electronics supply chain
With millions of UK workers last week told to work from home, many are finding themselves increasingly reliant on technology. The demand for electronic tablets increased in China during quarantine…
Bangladeshi workers show how organised labour can defeat coronavirus
The global pandemic is stripping away the ‘ethical’ veneer nurtured by high street brands as they meet economic threats to the trillion-dollar garment industry by maneuvering to save money at…
It’s time to get PR done
Image credit: Ryan Hodnett - Creative Commons Playing a role, however small, in pushing the Labour Party to commit to a voting system based on proportional representation is a campaigning…
Keir Starmer’s pledge to ‘end factionalism’ would take Labour back to vapid personality politics
Image credit: Chatham House - Creative Commons Keir Starmer’s campaign to be Leader of the Labour Party has so far pitched left narratively, hamming up his history of supporting unions…
How can Labour rebuild its base?
Photo credit: Andy Miah - Creative Commons With Labour's serious loss to Boris Johnson's Conservative government, much of the British left is in a period of mourning and reflection. The…