On 12 September we will find out whether Jeremy Corbyn is the next leader of the Labour Party. There is, of course, an increased reluctance to accept opinion polls at face value, so any optimism is still cautious. But whatever the result it is already clear that the Labour Party has changed. There has been […]
Posts Tagged ‘Political Strategy’
Continuing the Corbyn momentum – relaunching the Labour Left
Aug 24th, 2015 by James McAsh and Rida Vaquas.
Gordon Brown and power
Aug 17th, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.Has Gordon Brown reached down from heaven and, like the vengeful Presbyterian God, smited Jeremy Corbyn with his great clunking fist? Well, no. The much-trailed Power with a Purpose speech wasn’t the knock out some were hoping for, as if a talk could derail the Jeremy juggernaut anyway. Instead we had a thoughtful, nuanced and […]
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The Labour leadership candidates should turn to Barbara Castle
Jun 27th, 2015 by Calum Sherwood.As the Labour leadership election picks up pace, and some of the dividing lines between the candidates are beginning to emerge, I feel that it is becoming increasingly necessary for the some of the so-called frontrunners to revisit the career of Barbara Castle. One of the most esteemed figures from Labour’s history, Castle proved that […]
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Today MPs will determine whether party members get real choice and real debate
Jun 15th, 2015 by Jon Lansman.Shortly after midday today we will learn whether Labour MPs have determined whether the party’s 200,000 plus members will be allowed to vote for Jeremy Corbyn to be their leader, whether a proper debate about what went wrong in May and what we need to do to put it right in five years time will be allowed to happen. Although many […]
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A Lab-Lib Dem merger? A very, very bad idea
Jun 12th, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.One question that comes up time and again from punters on the doorstep to far left activists is “why can’t you all just unite?” (although, ironically, Left Unity has ruled out unity with the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition for next year’s London Assembly elections). Of course, there are Very Important Reasons why myriad groups in the revolutionary […]
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Labour needs its leader and candidates to offer an alternative to austerity
Jun 9th, 2015 by Barry Gray.A fundamental weakness of Labour’s recent general election campaign was the failure to offer voters hope of a return to prosperity. Shackled to the Coalition’s economic framework, the core of which is slashing the public sector, Labour’s small progressive proposals were drowned out by the overwhelming commitment to austerity. Focusing on a promise to introduce […]
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Jeremy Corbyn makes his pitch for the Labour leadership on Newsnight
Jun 9th, 2015 by Newsdesk.Jeremy Corbyn makes his pitch on Newsnight, interviewed by Evan Davis, answering a wide range of questions: how Labour can win, why austerity lite lost us votes and drove people to UKIP, Green and SNP candidates, what he thinks about the monarchy and why he talked to Sinn Fein.
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What is Scottish Labour for?
Jun 9th, 2015 by Dave Watson.As Scottish Labour regroups after the General Election, the temptation will be to focus on organisation and structure. Important though these are, the real question the party has to ask itself is – what is Scottish Labour for? After the 2007 and 2011 Scottish Parliament elections, Scottish Labour held reviews that gave detailed consideration to […]
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How the politics of fear may help the Tories win again
Jun 8th, 2015 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.I hate being wrong, but there’s no point running away when you do screw things up. In politics and the analysis thereof, when you make mistakes you have to ask where you went wrong and, crucially, why. And so, the Conservatives winning the general election. That was a turn up for the books. No one […]
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For Labour to succeed it must get real
Jun 7th, 2015 by Jeremy Corbyn.The Labour Party was founded by the trade unions and later developed into a federal structure of local constituency parties, trades and Labour councils, and socialist societies. The link with the trade unions has always been under attack, either legislatively by successive Tory governments, or by the right wing of the Labour Party. As we move […]
