Today young centre-left activists from all over the world will gather for the International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) summer camp in Malta for a week of debate, discussion and socialising with comrades from all different walks of life. However Young Labour will be not be attending the occasion as party staff have once more […]
Busting the myths of the WW1 apologists
May 6th, 2014 by Dominic Curran.This summer will mark the outbreak of the First World War and, although comment has gone quiet since the beginning of this year, the usual apologist discourse for the waging of this war will doubtlessly soon recommence. Such accounts are however part of a revisionist attempt to construct a myth of a ‘just war’ to justify present western military […]
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The housing bubble shows this “recovery” is fatally short-sighted
Dec 12th, 2013 by Dominic Curran.Amid the arguments that the UK is headed towards a new housing bubble, it seems clear that the so called recovery is simply a “return to normalcy”, with none of the lessons from the crash being learned and dooming us to make the same mistakes. At the time of the crash, the bailouts themselves seemed […]
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Of course Labour needs to be “tough”, but not to our own
Aug 13th, 2013 by Dominic Curran.Some time ago I wrote about the way that the right had hijacked the notion of “aspiration” as an individualist notion of personal accumulation and ambition, when it was the left that really stood for true aspiration of people towards a better shared society and that contesting this space must be a fundamental to One […]
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Eywitness to the Bolivarian Revolution: Report back from a delegation to Venezuela
Jul 23rd, 2013 by Dominic Curran.The first thing that strikes you as you drive into Caracas is how the skyline is punctuated by tall blocks of government housing missions often bearing the signature of Hugo Chavez painted on their side: a testament to the social progress and investment in human need in Venezuela. On our fifth day we went to […]
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Shouldn’t it be up to affiliates themselves how they manage their link with Labour?
Jul 9th, 2013 by Dominic Curran.This morning Ed Miliband will make a speech in which he will lay out his support for changes to the trade union link including the limited use of primaries, but possibly more crucially forcing trade unions to get their members to “opt in” for Labour party affiliation rather than “opt out”. This proposal will not […]
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Attacks on the International Brigades are symptomatic of the rewriting of history
Jun 7th, 2013 by Dominic Curran.In a shocking ruling the other day, a Spanish court endorsed the tearing down of a recently erected memorial to the International Brigades in Madrid, after much outrage from right wingers. This is an outrageous attack on those who sacrificed everything for democracy. The International Brigades volunteered to fight fascism at a time when British aristocrats fraternised […]
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Why should the Labour Party make arbitrary rulings on Young Labour’s international participation?
Apr 13th, 2013 by Dominic Curran.I reacted with dismay and astonishment by the Labour Party’s arbitrary decision to limit the number of participants at the Young European Socialists summer-camps to five (out of a possible fifty), stopping most members from attending. I attended the 2012 summer-camp in Croatia and it was a really rewarding experience. It’s a really rare chance […]
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Labour has always been the natural party of “aspiration”
Mar 29th, 2013 by Dominic Curran.Aspiration: its a political buzzword that has been hijacked by the right. The Tories have launched their “aspiration nation” tagline of helping those who want to “get ahead”. Indeed the Blarites in the party have laid the ridiculous charge that “Old Labour” did not understand the aspiration of people wanting to do well for themselves. […]
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Trade union freedom is the key to an equal society
Mar 28th, 2013 by Dominic Curran.Last Saturday the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom held its launch rally, a well attended event with good speakers from all across the Labour Movement. Trade Union freedoms need to be on the agenda for a Labour government in office as the cornerstone of any fairer economic settlement. This view has been echoed by Len […]
