Tony Lloyd, Labour’s Conscience
Whether Tony Lloyd was opposing attacking Iraq and Gaza or supporting trade unionists and local people, it was never about a parliamentary career — it was about, in his words, ‘that human solidarity that matters’.
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Raven Hart
Raven Hart is co-founder of the Bristol Cooperative Alliance, an organisation that aims to promote a decentralised economy that empowers local communities and facilitates democratic self-determination.
Britain’s Forever Recessions
Today, the economy officially fell into recession — but it’s unsurprising when austerity has starved the country of all the investment it actually needs.
This Is the West’s Genocide Too
Israel is preparing to launch a ground assault against Rafah, where one million refugees are sheltered. Responsibility for the bloodbath won’t belong just to the invaders — this is the West’s genocide too.
Jenny Marx’s Life of Love and Revolution
This Valentine’s Day, we remember the revolutionary life of Jenny Marx — a socialist and feminist whose own activity, no less than her relationship with Karl, helped to shape the struggles of her time.
The Teesworks Scandal Exposes Britain’s Crony Economy
The Teesport Freeport promised to reinvigorate a region ravaged by Thatcherism — instead, it is little more than a taxpayer-funded cash cow for private developers associated with Tory politicians.
No, the Left Shouldn’t Welcome Deindustrialisation
Gabriel Winant’s ‘The Next Shift’ expertly details the growth of America’s health system — but in its hostility towards reindustrialisation, it offers dead-end positions for anyone fighting for working-class prosperity or a socialist society.
The February Uprising
On this day in 1934, Austrian socialists made their final stand to defend democracy from a growing fascist movement.
An Historian Against the Bomb
This week marked the 100th birthday of E.P. Thompson, pioneer of ‘history from below’ and his generation’s foremost crusader against the nuclear arms race and the politics of exterminism.
Labour Has Given Up on the Climate Crisis
On the same day that climate scientists announced the world had breached the warming limit of 1.5 degrees centigrade above pre-industrial levels, Starmer effectively announced that he had given up the fight against climate breakdown.
East London NHS Workers Are Striking for Pay Justice
Barts NHS Trust has refused to pay its mostly migrant women domestic workers the cost of living pay rise it has paid their colleagues. So today, they are striking to demand their worth.
How the Media Still Gets the Miners Wrong
A new series explores the painful realities of the miners’ strike through the eyes of those directly involved. But it ignores the crux of the strike — Thatcher’s determination to crush the organised working class.
Red Rover: Remembering Allan Roberts MP
To mark LGBT History Month, we remember Allan Roberts — a pioneering gay Labour MP who shrugged off media slander about his personal life to become one of the most effective socialist politicians of his generation.
Another Gaza: Israeli Terrorism in Jenin
Israel has unleashed a wave of violence against the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, placing Palestinians under siege and conducting indiscriminate airstrikes. Genocide was always the end goal.
E.P. Thompson at 100
At Saturday’s Palestine solidarity protest — which took place on E.P. Thompson’s centenary — Jeremy Corbyn, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s Kate Hudson and John McDonnell remember the pioneer of ‘history from below’ and the debt owed to him by the anti-war movement.
Race Equality: We Need Systemic Change, Not Sticking Plasters
Labour’s race equality act launch event descended into farce after equality campaigners and media were banned from attendance — signalling the leadership’s dismissive attitude towards black and brown voters.
E. P. Thompson’s Romantic Marxism
Socialist historian E. P. Thompson brilliantly chronicled the ravages of early capitalism — and the fierce resistance it provoked.
Port Talbot Shows Why Wales Needs a New Economic Strategy
The closure of Port Talbot steelworks is the culmination of decades of free market ideology that has devastated Wales. It’s time for a new economy that puts public interest before private profit.
Labour Must Fight the Establishment Media Moguls
Labour looks set to abandon a decade of commitment to media reform. Rather than seeking in vain to appease the media elite, the party can and should promote an alternative model of press pluralism.
El Salvador’s Activists Are Being Punished for Beating Corporate Greed
Five activists involved in El Salvador’s historic metal mining ban have been arrested. The spurious charges are proof of the threat authoritarian president Bukele’s cosy relationship with big business poses — both to democracy and to human life.
‘I Always Wake Up So Scared’: Gaza’s Children Under Siege
Israel’s new massacres have only furthered the massive psychological devastation of Gaza’s children, suffering in huge numbers from mass depression, mutism, bedwetting and suicidal thoughts.