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5 radical policies Labour should include in its manifesto
Labour Conference 2019 demonstrated the ambition and organisation of Labour’s left-wing grassroots. Campaigns including Labour for a Green New Deal, Labour 4 Day Week and Abolish Eton all had their…
Meet the worker who’s been occupying a Samsung building for 123 days
Activist and former Samsung employee Yong-Hee Kim is occupying a 25-metre Samsung tower at Gangnam Station intersection in Seoul, South Korea. The 60-year-old has been on the tower since 10…
The Global Climate Strike: A light in dark times
“Protecting the climate will destroy jobs.” So goes the often-repeated phrase. This lie is heard in parliaments, economic forums, and from red-faced dads at the dinner table. The false opposition…
Building socialism: Political education for the many
The Labour Left’s annual political education extravaganza, The World Transformed, is back with a bang in 2019. For the fourth consecutive year, the festival is taking place alongside Labour Conference…
UK students to fight Samsung’s labour rights abuses
Image credit: People & Planet Demonstrations outside High Street stores across the UK and Ireland are being organised for 25th-26th October as part of 48 Hours of Action Against Samsung.…
Johnson’s shut down of parliament is the tip of the democratic crisis iceberg
On Wednesday we learnt that Boris Johnson intends to shut down Parliament for five weeks in order to force through a disastrous no-deal Brexit. This week opposition parties met to…
How should Labour approach Britain’s Trump?
Image credit: Andrew Parsons, Creative Commons The temptation to lump together Boris Johnson and Donald Trump as two sides of the same trans-atlantic political coin is understandable. Both are celebrity-politicians…
Sadiq Khan must ditch the Silvertown Tunnel if he’s serious about the climate emergency
Image credit: Creative Commons, Centre for London The cancellation of a major urban road project – the M4 relief road in Newport, Wales – announced on 4 June, should embolden…
Never trust a COP: How the left should respond to COP26
Image credit: COP Paris, Creative Commons The UK will host COP26, the 26th round of the United Nations Climate Change Conferences, in November 2020. Jeremy Hunt is pleased. Buzzfeed reported…
6 reasons Tom Watson has to go
Image credit: Creative Commons: Rwendland Hackney South & Shoreditch Constituency Labour Party (CLP) have passed a motion calling on Tom Watson, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, to stand down…