Progress, class and parliamentary selections: Ken Livingstone makes the case for more working class candidates, and questions the motives of Progress in this debate. Ed needs to work out where disunity comes from, and let the party decide its direction: Jon Lansman examines the public spat between Ed Miliband and Len McCluskey, and argues that Ed […]
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Lutfur Rahman: former party official threatens to “load the revolver”
Mar 29th, 2013 by Keith Wright.Hatred runs deep in Tower Hamlets Labour – as we’ve reported before. The East London borough’s party branch still remains deeply divided after Lutfur Rahman, selected to fight for the directly-elected mayoralty by Labour, was dropped by the party national executive committee, after one of his rivals made allegations of extremism against him – claims […]
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Bloggers’ letter to the Guardian raises Leveson concerns
Mar 23rd, 2013 by Newsdesk.Our editor, Jon Lansman, was a signatory to this letter in today’s Guardian, which raises concerns about the inclusion of not-for-profit multi-authored blogs on the same level as newspapers within the new press regulation framework. Other signatories include the editors of LabourList, Conservative Home and Left Foot Forward. The Leveson inquiry was set up to address […]
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Leveson should not apply to the not-for-profit blogosphere
Mar 18th, 2013 by Jon Lansman.Mark Ferguson raises an important issue which has been neglected in the last minute deal-making and it is important albeit not what most politicians are currently hacked-off about — on the important question of whether the deal meets the requirement of adequate statutory backing see the Spectator or Labour List, although be warned that they […]
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The six most popular stories this week
Mar 17th, 2013 by Newsdesk.Join the protests against the ‘Bedroom Tax’ – Jon Lansman reported on over 55 protests around the country with links to more information.This piece had over 5000 hits – the highest ever for an article on Left Futures. Up your bedroom tax, Duncan Smith! – Michael Meacher exolains why Duncan Smith’s backtracking isn’t nearly enough, […]
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Karl Marx for Today
Mar 14th, 2013 by Carl Packman.On this very day, 130 years ago, Karl Marx died in his house in Chalk Farm Road, London. Shortly after the death of Jenny Marx, his wife, in late 1881, Marx developed a catarrh, making him very ill for at least the final 15 months of his life. What eventually came to kill the old […]
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On Eastleigh, or the return of the right wing protest vote
Mar 1st, 2013 by Carl Packman.David Cameron, before Michael Gove announced that his brand of liberal Conservatism was not for turning, has been heard saying that the way in which to look at the Eastleigh by-election results is as a protest vote. With this much he is right, but perhaps not in the way he imagines. Firstly it should be […]
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The six most popular stories this week
Feb 24th, 2013 by Newsdesk.Mail on Sunday in smear attempt on John O’Farrell – Jon Lansman argues that the tabloid is only digging up what the Eastleigh candidate wrote in a humorous memoir out of desperation. Owen Jones on austerity, class and the prospects for capitalism – the Chavs author in a new video Anti-fascists: five reasons we’re protesting […]
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The six most popular stories last week
Feb 18th, 2013 by Newsdesk.Mail on Sunday in smear attempt on John O’Farrell – Jon Lansman shows how the Mail distorted extracts from a comic account of “eighteen miserable years in the life of a Labour supporter” under Thatcher and Major Ed’s speech and the elephant in the audience – The good bits, the pleasing noises and the continuing […]
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How relevant is Kropotkin today?
Feb 8th, 2013 by Carl Packman.I recall a point in my youth when I took to the streets of London in celebration of May Day. Once the day had started to settle and the Trots entered the pubs, the anarchists started to congregate in the middle of Trafalgar Square. One very young boy mounted a statue in the square and […]
