The Tories are ploughing ahead with their plans for a referendum on EU membership. Having been strong-armed by his right wing backbenchers and the rise of UKIP, Cameron is proposing he renegotiates what he calls a “better deal” for Britain in Europe and then puts it to a referendum. Up to now the debate on […]
Labour should attack predator employers, not immigrants
Mar 12th, 2013 by Dominic Curran.Recently Ed Miliband and Yvette Cooper made statements regarding immigration that have been spun as a “toughening” stance on the issue. However Labour needs to present a distinct left critique on the current status quo on immigration and not play into the hands of the right. Labour should focus on attacking the predator companies that […]
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Why horse-meat-gate should outrage all on the left
Mar 6th, 2013 by Dominic Curran.Its very easy to dismiss the horse-meat scandal as a lot of fuss over nothing. Indeed it does fit into a certain British stereotype of a strange sentimentality about animals. However the scandal has exposed the awful regulation of food, the disgrace that the food industry is, and class divisions in society that even manifest […]
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No apathetic generation
Jan 3rd, 2013 by Dominic Curran.With disproportionately low voter turnout among young people in elections, it is easy to claim that our generation is apathetic. It is true that young people are less likely not only to vote, but also to be a member of a political party than the rest of the population. However, to claim that young people […]
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Tory website posing as “non-partisan” in dodgy attempt to fix PCC elections
Nov 14th, 2012 by Dominic Curran.The website www.policeelections.com is posing as a “non partisan” “educational” website for the public in the upcoming elections for Police. However it has been run in a very strange way. We have reports that until recently only Tory candidates in the election had their full details uploaded onto the site and our sources tell us […]
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Ed’s ‘One Nation’ must be built on working people’s terms
Oct 6th, 2012 by Dominic Curran.Ed Miliband’s speech to conference this year was excellent. Following on from his speech in Liverpool last year he put yet more distance between himself and New Labour with a commitment to building a fairer Britain and challenging the laissez-faire and indeed “intensely relaxed” attitude to inequality of the Blair years.
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The left needs to go on the offensive
Aug 1st, 2012 by Dominic Curran.I was recently pondering how, from the rule of Thatcher, the centre of British politics has been dragged rightwards as all political parties have accepted neoliberalism. One Nation Toryism lies all but dead; the LibDems seem to have succumbed almost totally to the “Orange Book” tendency; and then of course there was the rise of […]
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Young European Socialists point the way to a break with neo-liberalism
Jul 23rd, 2012 by Dominic Curran.Over the week of the 13th to the 20th of July, Young Labour and Labour Students attended the 10th summer camp of the European Council of Socialist Youth (ECOSY) in the coastal Camp Veli Joze, Savudrija, Croatia. Counting over forty people, it was the biggest delegation ever sent from Great Britain, up over one-thousand percent […]
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A Very British Radicalism
Apr 27th, 2012 by Dominic Curran.As the Jubilee approaches I am looking forward to the increased republican mobilisation. However, I fear that much of the republican discourse is in a language that will not really resonate with most people. Much of the arguments seem to be based around the liberal ideas of fairness, meritocracy and allowing anyone to achieve the honour […]
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The way forward for Young Labour
Mar 5th, 2012 by Dominic Curran.On the weekend of 24/5 February, Labour Students held its National Conference in Manchester. At this conference really important motions were discussed in terms of reforming the organisation’s internal workings. Aberystwyth University Labour Club had sent in a motion to introduce one-member-one-vote in elections to national committee. The motion passed but with amendments from national committee […]
