The Complex Legacy of Tony Blair
The rise of Owen Jones as a persuasive and articulate exponent of socialist politics is certainly a very welcome development, and the reach of his articles in the Independent gives him a useful vehicle...
View ArticleOne Nation Labourism
There were certainly positives from Ed Miliband’s speech to conference today. A clear commitment to repeal the Tory reforms to the NHS, an explicit distancing of the party from the politics of New...
View ArticleKen Loach’s “The Spirit of ’45″
The achievements of the 1945 postwar Labour government, explored and depicted in Ken Loach’s documentary, The Spirit of ’45, should be part of the school curriculum in every generation as a model of...
View ArticleLabour 1983: the Most Inspiring Suicide Note in History
30 years since its publication, I thought it would be worth re-publishing in full Labour’s 1983 election manifesto. It’s a marvellous feat of propaganda that this manifesto has gone down in memory as...
View ArticleGlenda Jackson Speaks for All of Us on Thatcher
An excellent speech by Glenda Jackson in Parliament during what George Galloway called a “state-organised eulogy”. Glenda was one of the only people to depart from the official outpouring of praise for...
View ArticleEd Miliband in Chippenham
Ed Miliband visited the Wiltshire town of Chippenham on Saturday, as part of a busy day’s campaigning that also took him to Bristol and Stroud. He spoke and answered questions from around 50 people at...
View ArticleThatcher’s Legacy
This is a guest post by Labour MP Jon Trickett Although the right wing did not hesitate for a second to criticise Hugo Chavez following his death, in Britain the bulk of the Left have accepted the...
View Article1945 Labour Party Manifesto
After our recent publication of the 1983 Labour Party election manifesto, and following Ken Loach’s film The spirit of ’45, we thought it would be good to revisit the 1945 Labour Party Election...
View ArticleMADE BY THE MANY: NEW VIDEO FROM LABOUR
Excellent new video from Labour, outlining Ed Miliband’s vision of an economic recovery made by the many. see my website: Vote Labour The post MADE BY THE MANY: NEW VIDEO FROM LABOUR appeared on...
View ArticleTHE PARADOX OF GEORGE GALLOWAY
It is fair to say that George Galloway is not universally popular. It is therefore unsurprising that his attendance at a meeting with Ed Miliband was used by the increasingly desperate Blairites as...
View ArticleLink: ED MILIBAND WILL LOSE ELECTION IF HE IS ‘SEDUCED’ BY BLAIRITES, SAYS...
Len McCluskey says Labour leader will be ‘cast into dustbin of history’ if he simply offers voters an ‘austerity-lite’ programme. Click here to read the story. The post Link: ED MILIBAND WILL LOSE...
View ArticleGeorge Galloway: Ed Miliband & me
This post was written by George Galloway for his Red Molucca blog Secrets are sometimes necessary in politics. So is telling the truth but not the whole truth. What is never acceptable are lies....
View ArticleWill the real Andy Newman please stand up?
The media brouhaha that surrounded poor Paris Brown has still not quite subsided, and the crack team of journalists who landed the scoop that teenagers can sometimes act stupidly must be very proud of...
View ArticleCounty Council elections: vote Labour
Vote Labour in today’s County Council elections The post County Council elections: vote Labour appeared on Socialist Unity.
View ArticleSouth Shields by-election results
Emma Lewell-Buck (Labour) 12,493 votes ELECTED Richard Elvin (UK Independence Party) 5,988 votes Karen Allen (Conservatives) 2,857 votes Ahmed Khan (Independent) 1,331 votes Phil Brown (Independent...
View ArticleLink: How well did Labour do in 2013 County Council elections?
Every year Luke Akehurst writes an article looking at what the benchmarks are for Labour in the May County Council elections. Luke then follows it up with an analysis of the results. It makes very...
View ArticleEd Miliband: a One Nation approach to Social Security
Transcript of Labour leader Ed Miliband’s speech on 6 June, 2013 Speaking at Newham Dockside, Ed Miliband said: It is great to be here in Newham. Where a Labour Mayor and council are doing so many...
View ArticleLabour’s embrace of welfare reform is a victory for the right
The Labour Party leadership’s embrace of welfare reform – set out in Ed Miliband’s keynote speech on welfare to a select audience in Newham, East London – marks a victory for the right and describes...
View ArticleLabour and rebuilding Social Security
This post, from A Very Public Sociologist, follows on from Ed Miliband’s speech and John Wight’s response to it. Look, I get it. No one needs to tell me that the antipathy towards the unemployed, the...
View ArticleAnne Marie Waters – the worst possible potential Labour PPC
I was recently horrified to discover that the anti-Islam extremist, Anne Marie Waters, is considered one of the front-runners to be Labour’s candidate for Brighton Pavilion, for the next general...
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