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Keir Starmer’s decision to ban Jeremy Corbyn from standing as a Labour MP isn’t only an attack on the Left – it is an enforced erosion of the dissent that is vital for a healthy party and democratic society.
Keir Starmer promises to unite the party and appear prime ministerial while sticking by Labour's left-wing policies. But if elected, he would be forced to choose between these priorities - and it's clear which one would lose out.
Keir Starmer's speech today was an opportunity to present a bold alternative to growing inequality under the Tories – it failed spectacularly.
Keir Starmer was elected to the Labour leadership on a pledge of party unity, but his actions since have shown that Labour's right-wing cares more about defeating the Left than winning power.
Last night local parties across Britain – from Edinburgh to Newcastle, Bolton, Bristol and Liverpool – passed motions opposing Keir Starmer's decision to deny Jeremy Corbyn the Labour whip in the broadest rebellion against his leadership to date.
For Keir Starmer, scrapping the Community Organising Unit and attacking party democracy are part of a single project: to turn Labour back into a party of the establishment.
Keir Starmer's latest attack on Stop the War had nothing to do with peace. Its aim was simple: to convince the hawks who dominate Western foreign policy that Labour no longer stands in the way of their warmongering.
As workers across the country fight for pay rises, Keir Starmer could have highlighted the failure of the Tories to tackle the cost of living crisis – instead, he started a massive public spat with the trade union movement.
Labour’s disgraceful treatment of Diane Abbott and Faiza Shaheen sends a very clear message to Black and Asian voters — give us your votes and know your place, or face humiliation.
Labour has been rocked by a wave of resignations after Keir Starmer endorsed the collective punishment of Palestine. One councillor leaving the party explains why
Keir Starmer is looking at ‘every conceivable way’ to block compensation for myself and over 300 people wrongly imprisoned in the 1970s — an arrogance in full keeping with the British establishment's imperial mindset.
Labour's razor-thin victory in Batley and Spen owes to Kim Leadbeater's popular local candidacy – not to a party leadership that continues to alienate its own core voters.
After meeting with Giorgia Meloni, Keir Starmer expressed admiration for the Italian prime minister's plans to deport refugees to camps in Albania — signalling the Labour government's willingness to embrace the policies of neofascism.
By folding to a pressure campaign orchestrated by the far-right BJP government, Keir Starmer's statement on Kashmir today not only betrayed Labour members – it abandoned a people living under brutal oppression.
Keir Starmer claims ‘difficult choices’ have forced him to abandon his progressive economic agenda – but it’s yet another sign that Labour plans to do little to threaten the establishment.
Labour's right-wing has treated the razor-thin victory a week ago in Batley and Spen as vindication – but it exposed a stark reality: the party's problems are even greater now than they were in December 2019.