Labour Party
16 January 2021 · EU, Labour Party, Scotland · 1 comment
Leonard resigns, as Starmer abandons Scotland’s voters
Richard Leonard has bowed to the inevitable and resigned as Scottish Labour Party leader, just 16 weeks before the most critical Scottish Parliament elections since devolution on 6 May. The …
17 December 2020 · Labour Party · 2 comments
Reverend Jeremy’s Christmas message
At Christmas, Christians are invited to imagine a world transformed by the arrival of the infant Jesus into a realm of peace, benevolence and universal kindness. It’s fair to say that for ma…
7 December 2020 · · Britain, EU, Labour Party · 2 comments
Labour must oppose any Brexit deal
Whilst after years of Brexit and the end-game of the end-game taking place we still don’t know if there will be a deal with the European Union (EU), writes Alan Thornett . What we do know if…
10 November 2020 · · Labour Party, Wales
Wales and the pandemic: a view from the frontline
The politics of dealing with the pandemic has played out in a distinctive way in Wales. Health in the United Kingdom state is devolved along with a number of other services. The UK Tory gove…
5 November 2020 · · Britain, Labour Party, antisemitism
Solidarity with Jeremy Corbyn
The suspension of Jeremy Corbyn from the Labour Party comes as no surprise to those who have been watching developments over the past few years, writes Roger Benjamin . This was always the a…
30 October 2020 · · Britain, Labour Party · 6 comments
Starmer suspends Corbyn - some initial thoughts
One stand out reaction to the news is that we were all blindsided. We really did not expect the Spanish Inquisition, writes Dave Kellaway . The right, the mainstream media, the left media an…
29 October 2020 · Labour Party · 9 comments
Solidarity with Jeremy Corbyn - Fight the witch-hunt
Socialist Resistance stands in solidarity with Jeremy Corbyn and is totally opposed to his suspension from the Labour Party. This is a politically motivated move by Keir Starmer to crush the…
22 September 2020 · · Britain, Labour Party · 2 comments
Starmer says if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em
In his first conference speech as Labour leader Keir Starmer mentioned “Britain” seven times, “family” nine times, “opportunity” eight and “country” twenty-six writes Andy Stowe . Some cynic…
21 September 2020 · Labour Party, Palestine
British Palestinians speak out
Socialist Resistance has always stood in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. We have opposed the silencing of Palestinian voices inside the Labour Party, which has been a hidden conseq…
26 July 2020 · · Britain, Economics, Ecosocialism, Labour Party, Uncategorized · 1 comment
Relaunch Labour’s Green New Deal
According to the World Health Organisation, the Covid-19 pandemic is still accelerating globally; infections have doubled in the past six weeks, writes Alan Thornett . This is another sharp …
16 July 2020 · · Britain, Labour Party, trade unions · 2 comments
Tower Hamlets strike reveals Labour fault lines
Sometimes an individual rises to the top of a large organisation because they are the only person so equally disdained by all the personal cliques and ideological factions that they emerge a…
2 July 2020 · Labour Party · 7 comments
Labour is still where socialists should be
Labour under Starmer’s leadership remains a place where the class struggle is happening, and it is mistake for socialists in England to leave it argues Andy Stowe. Is it only three years ago…
26 June 2020 · Labour Party, Uncategorized, antisemitism · 6 comments
If They Come In the Morning
The Labour Party’s antisemitism witchhunt has just claimed its highest profile victim, with the sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey from Starmer’s shadow cabinet for the crime of tweeting a link …
15 May 2020 · Labour Party, Palestine, Uncategorized
British Palestinians' letter to Labour's leadership candidates
My brothers, sister and I sent the letter below to the three Labour Party leadership candidates because we were increasingly horrified by their capitulation to the extreme Zionist lobby’s ou…
12 May 2020 · · Britain, Labour Party · 1 comment
Don’t despair, organise!
It’s not been an easy time for anyone on the left in Britain, writes Veronica Fagan. The pandemic and the appalling way the #ToxicTories have responded to it are obviously dominating most of…
8 April 2020 · · Labour Party · 3 comments
How should the left respond to Starmer's election?
Keir Starmer’s election as Labour leader is a serious defeat for the left, writes Veronica Fagan , and is further compounded by the results of the deputy leadership election, the NEC electio…
3 March 2020 · · Britain, Labour Party · 5 comments
Starmy times ahead
It seems inevitable that Keir Starmer will be the next Labour leader and Angela Rayner will be his deputy writes Andy Stowe. At any other time, a Labour MP who’d been a successful lawyer who…
12 February 2020 · Britain, Labour Party, Racism, Tories · 3 comments
Analysing a disastrous result
What happened? Like many others on the left, we got the election result seriously wrong. Most thought a hung Parliament or even a Labour minority government was a real possibility. It was no…
10 January 2020 · · Britain, Labour Party · 2 comments
Must Labour move right to secure its working-class base?
Phil Hearse argues that the Blairite Right and Lexit Left are drawing all the wrong conclusions from the general election. In the wake of the Tory electoral victory, attempts to draw lessons…
30 December 2019 · · EU, Labour Party, Racism · 1 comment
Actually, it is racist
One conclusion being drawn from Labour’s defeat is that the party under Corbyn was insufficiently concerned about migration, English nationalism and the concerns of the “majority of the work…
13 December 2019 · · Labour Party · 6 comments
A disastrous election result: defend the gains of Corbynism.
On an emotional level it feels like a death in the family writes Andy Stowe . The Tory victory was, above all else, a triumph for a reactionary project of the hard right that has been incuba…
1 December 2019 · Britain, Climate Change, Labour Party
Labour’s Green New Deal
Labour’s manifesto represents the most radical environmental offer ever proposed by a major party challenging for government. It’s a remarkable response to the rapid advance of the ecologica…
26 November 2019 · · Labour Party · 3 comments
Corbyn is right to be neutral on Brexit
Labour is the only party with a chance of forming the next Westminster government which is committed to giving us a second referendum on Brexit writes Andy Stowe . Remainers should vote Labo…
21 November 2019 · · Britain, Labour Party · 2 comments
Labour’s election winning manifesto
Labour’s 2019 election manifesto could very well be the set of ideas that wins the election writes Andy Stowe . One of the things that tells you it’s very different from every manifesto of t…
20 November 2019 · Britain, Labour Party
Corbynism from Below
C orbynism from Below edited by Mark Perryman, Lawrence and Wishart (2019) reviewed by Dave Kellaway In France and Italy political leaders like Mélenchon or Bertinotti inevitably write tomes…
14 November 2019 · · Labour Party, Racism, trade unions
Union leaders shouldn’t make excuses for racism
The Brexit referendum result showed that there is large scale racism in British society writes Andy Stowe . It affects both the Labour Party and the unions. There’s the infamous “controls on…
5 November 2019 · Britain, Labour Party, Scotland · 3 comments
Labour off to remarkable start
Labour has got off to a flying start since the general election was launched last week. Corbyn launched its campaign the very next day in Battersea Town Hall in front of a hugely enthusiasti…
14 October 2019 · · Britain, EU, Labour Party · 2 comments
Hold the referendum before an election
In the parallel universe that exists between today’s fake Queens speech and the so-called ‘special session’ of Parliament on Saturday – that does not yet have anything to discuss – support f…
31 August 2019 · · Britain, EU, Labour Party · 4 comments
Labour movement begins to face down the coup
Jeremy Corbyn encouraged people to take to the streets on Saturday 31 August to protest against Boris Johnson’s attempt to shut down Parliament writes Andy Stowe . A massive crowd filled Whi…
28 August 2019 · · Britain, Democracy, EU, Labour Party, Tories · 1 comment
Only Labour can stop Johnson’s coup
John McDonnell is absolutely right to say that Johnson’s suspension of Parliament is a “very British coup”, writes Andy Stowe . A government of hard right ideologues is shutting down the ver…
16 August 2019 · · Britain, EU, Labour Party, Tories
Confrontation looming on Brexit
With Parliament neutralised by the summer recess, battle lines are being drawn for the biggest constitutional crisis in modern times when it comes back next month, writes Alan Dav ies. With …
20 July 2019 · · EU, Labour Party
A Missed Opportunity
The March for Change could have made July 20 th 2019 one of the most significant days in recent British political history writes Andy Stowe . Instead of a contingent of Cornish nationalists …
19 July 2019 · Britain, Labour Party
Shipwreck of the Third Way: Tony Blair, New Labour and Inequality
As a general election approaches, especially one which might lead to a Johnson or Johnson-Farage government, (and, less likely, a Corbyn government) the record of the last Labour government …
18 July 2019 · · Labour Party, USA
Ermine robes and baseball caps
The closest thing to a Hitler rally most people alive today will have seen was Donald Trump’s audience in Greenville chanting “ send her back ” writes Andy Stowe . An enraged white mob was p…
14 July 2019 · Antisemitism, Labour Party, Labour Party, antisemitism · 1 comment
Another crude smear campaign
Jonathan Freedland continues his crusade against Corbynism and the Left with another disreputable column in the Guardian. Basing himself on an article by two academics , (Matt Bolton and Fre…
10 July 2019 · EU, Labour Party
Stop Brexit: march on the 20 July
The shift in Labour’s position to backing Remain in another referendum on a No Deal Brexit or a Tory Deal is very welcome. But its position is still ambiguous as it implies that a new Labour…
28 June 2019 · Britain, EU, Labour Party
Do Remainers want to abandon the working class?
Jon Cruddas' Guardian article has a simple message, widely backed by left-wing Brexiteers, that Labour will lose its traditional working class base if it backs a ‘Remain’ position on Brexit.…
21 June 2019 · · Britain, Labour Party, Tories
Johnson government is a threat to Labour
Nothing short of an alien invasion in the next couple of weeks is going to stop Boris Johnson becoming the next British prime minster writes Andy Stowe . His well-documented dishonesty , rac…
12 June 2019 · · Britain, Labour Party · 2 comments
Diane Abbott, John McDonnell and Emily Thornberry are correct on Brexit
The Corbyn project is in crisis, writes Alan Davies . The EU elections results were a disaster for Labour, brought about by a major failure by the Corbyn leadership. It was an election that …
27 May 2019 · Britain, Labour Party, Uncategorized · 1 comment
Labour should be the anti-Brexit party
The message the EU election results send to the Labour party Leadership could hardly be more stark: get off the fence over Brexit or risk losing the next general election as well – particula…
24 May 2019 · Britain, Labour Party, Tories
May resigns and Brexit moves to the right
So May, with her cabinet falling to pieces around her and the 1922 Committee pulling the rug from underneath her, has at last accepted the inevitable and announced her resignation. She chose…
6 May 2019 · Britain, Labour Party, Tories, local government · 2 comments
What the local elections mean...
What is my verdict on the local elections that took place in Britain on May 2, asks Susan Moore ? A catastrophe for the Tories with the loss of 1,269 seats out of around 8,500 that were up f…
5 May 2019 · · Britain, EU, Labour Party · 1 comment
Every Labour vote counts in the European election
Labour voters should ignore the Morning Star’s call for a “ people’s boycott ” of the European elections writes Andy Stowe. The left campaign in favour of Brexit never really took off. Lexit…
24 April 2019 · Britain, EU, Labour Party, Uncategorized · 1 comment
Dangers for Labour in the EU elections
Unless there is a last-minute deal between Labour and May, which fortunately looks highly unlikely, we are facing EU elections on May 23 rd – something that will pose major problems for both…
28 February 2019 · · EU, Labour Party, Tories · 1 comment
Labour declares for a second referendum
Yesterday’s debate was a turning point in the Parliamentary battle over Brexit, writes Alan Thornett. The session turned out to be more significant than expected given that May had put off t…
28 February 2019 · Labour Party, antisemitism · 2 comments
Lift Chris Williamson’s suspension – Stop the Witch hunt
Socialist Resistance calls for the lifting of the suspension of Derby North MP Chris Williamson from the Labour Party. Chris has a long record of antiracism including opposition to antisemit…
17 February 2019 · · Britain, Labour Party, Tories · 3 comments
Labour are also running down the clock
The Tories are in beyond a mess, writes Alan Davies. The fragile truce they put together last month when Parliament instructed Theresa May to reopen negotiations on the withdrawal agreement …
17 February 2019 · Labour Party, Reviews, antisemitism · 4 comments
WitchHunt – how antisemitism is weaponised
A review of the new film WitchHunt (Jon Pullman, 2019, 62 mins) by Dave Kellaway The Rio cinema in Hackney was nearly completely full for the premiere of the new film WitchHunt by Jon Pullma…
8 February 2019 · · EU, Labour Party · 3 comments
The British Road to Brexit
Jeremy Corbyn’s papacy of Labour’s broad church has been successful in keeping together all the party's doctrinal strands and potentially schismatic sects writes Andy Stowe . MPs like Kate H…
30 January 2019 · · Britain, EU, Labour Party, Tories
Labour must change course as crash out looms closer
The clear and highly dangerous outcome of the shenanigans in the House of Commons on Tuesday 28 January, is that as a result of May’s dramatic U-turn into the arms of the European Research G…
29 January 2019 · · Britain, Labour Party, Uncategorized · 2 comments
Labour's Immigration Bill fiasco
Diane Abbott, John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn are distinguished by political careers devoted to anti-racism and defending migrants’ rights writes Andy Stowe . So, it’s entirely legitimate t…
17 January 2019 · Britain, EU, Labour Party, Tories · 3 comments
Put Labour at the head of the anti-Brexit movement
May has, unsurprisingly, survived the vote of no confidence moved by Labour with the solid support of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and the European Research Group after suffering the …
11 January 2019 · Britain, Labour Party · 3 comments
A general election will not resolve Brexit
The government is in a state of collapse. May has suffered two humiliating Parliamentary defeats in the last week and will suffer another one on Tuesday. Meanwhile Britain is in a free-fall …
31 December 2018 · Labour Party
In and against the state
Labour needs to develop a socialist strategy that goes beyond a single election manifesto. Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin look at the challenge of state transformation Just a few years ago, it w…
16 December 2018 · Britain, EU, Labour Party, Tories
Theresa May, Theresa Might, Theresa Can’t … The Brexit Boogie
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loos…
3 October 2018 · · Labour Party · 1 comment
Corbyn triumphant at Labour Conference
After a summer in which Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn faced endless vitriol from the right in the party and the media, Labour’s conference was a triumph, writes Veronica Fagan . Commitments fr…
22 September 2018 · Britain, EU, Far right, Labour Party, Racism · 1 comment
Resisting the right
As the Labour Party conference starts, Socialist Resistance looks at the challenges for the left in the coming months. Resisting the right has been a theme over recent months on three interr…
22 August 2018 · Labour Party, antisemitism · 2 comments
Labour must stand firm on antisemitism code of conduct
Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee (NEC) will next meet on September 4. There are many crucial matters on the agenda including which of the proposals from the Democracy review will…
17 August 2018 · · Labour Party
Feeling under siege
These past couple of weeks have put me in a particularly vile mood, to the point when watching Family Guy with my husband yesterday, there was a scene where Lois is having severe allergies w…
7 August 2018 · · Britain, Labour Party
Momentum, antisemitism and the coup
Just when you think that the attacks on Jeremy Corbyn can't get any more ludicrous writes Andy Stowe , a journalist working for Rupert Murdoch remembers something he read in The Sun a year a…
5 August 2018 · · Israel, Labour Party, Palestine, antisemitism · 4 comments
The New Coup
The shape and direction of the current coup are clear, writes Roland Rance . Corbyn is being set up to lose, and Jews are being set up to take the blame. The plotters will not be satisfied w…
21 July 2018 · Britain, EU, Labour Party · 2 comments
Oppose Tory Brexit and win a radical Labour government
Another Europe Is Possible (AEIP) has produced two model resolutions which makes the left case in Labour for opposing Brexit. Socialist Resistance is encouraging readers of this site who are…
11 July 2018 · Britain, Labour Party
Barnet left activist targeted
Veronica Fagan from Socialist Resistance talked to Fred Leplat about his political history and his recent exclusion from the Labour Party VF: Tell us something about your history of politica…
25 June 2018 · · Britain, EU, Labour Party · 2 comments
People's vote march shows potential for left anti-Brexit voice
When tens of thousands of people take to the streets you know you are dealing with a spontaneous movement writes Andy Stowe . This of course means that they might turn up with all manner of …
17 June 2018 · · Labour Party
Labour Live festival disappoints the sneerers
If the organisers had contrived to have Mozart, Elvis Presley and Prince emerge from a spaceship to perform an amazing new bit of music at the Labour Live festival on June 17 th , Jeremy Cor…
12 June 2018 · · Ecosocialism, Labour Party, transport
Heathrow: step up the campaign against expansion now
Tory Transport Minister Chris Grayling announced to Parliament on June 5 th , after endless prevarication, what he called the government’s ‘final proposal’ on airport expansion in the shape …
8 June 2018 · · Labour Party, local government · 3 comments
Local Government feels the effects of austerity
The effects of austerity are very visible in the attacks on local government spending. Underfunded council services are one of the first points of impact for the poorest and most vulnerable …
15 May 2018 · · Israel, Labour Party, Palestine · 1 comment
Palestinian Lives matter
It seems almost inevitable that by the time this short piece is published more Palestinians will have been murdered in Gaza by the Israeli state, writes Veronica Fagan . And yesterday’s deat…
12 May 2018 · Labour Party, Palestine, antisemitism
Corbyn under Fire
For weeks, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party has been the target of a defamatory campaign meant to undermine it, wrote Daniel Finn on April 9. The dominant narrative in the British media about Je…
6 May 2018 · · Britain, Labour Party, Tories, local government
Council election results reveal polarised situation
The council election result in Kensington and Chelsea is a good indicator of how polarised the political situation is in Britain writes Andy Stowe . The Conservative controlled council there…
26 April 2018 · · Britain, Labour Party, antisemitism, local government
How Labour could win in Barnet
As the Tories fall apart in Barnet, will Labour win the elections??? Frank Morris reports on the campaign and what’s at stake in what was once the Tories flagship for privatisation. Tory Bar…
22 April 2018 · Britain, Labour Party, antisemitism · 2 comments
Jewish Voice for Labour in Manchester
An important meeting for Labour Party members about antisemitism was held in central Manchester in April. Ian Parker was there. We know very well that Jeremy Corbyn has been under attack fro…
13 April 2018 · · Britain, Labour Party, Syria · 4 comments
Don’t bomb Syria - No support for Assad
A decade ago, a time when Boris Johnson was able to present documentaries on the BBC about the glories of Roman imperialism, visitors to the main market in Damascus could still see the bulle…
6 April 2018 · · Israel, Labour Party, Palestine, antisemitism
How not to fight antisemitism
On March 30 2018 Israel accelerated its practice of deliberate cold-blooded murder of Palestinian civilians demonstrating peacefully in their own land, writes Ariel Pardess . But you might n…
6 April 2018 · · Israel, Labour Party, Palestine
Palestinians will not be silenced
As a British Palestinian Arab and member of the Labour Party I am beginning to feel there is a minority who do not want the Party to welcome people like me. And they sure don’t want to make …
23 March 2018 · Britain, Labour Party, Reviews
Corbyn's path to power - a review
Alex Nunns', The Candidate; Jeremy Corbyn's improbable path to powe r, second edition is reviewed here by Margot Lindsay. Introduction In discussing the path to power, Nunns explains that th…
22 March 2018 · · Labour Party · 1 comment
Labour must promise referendum on Brexit deal
Brexit will be the culmination of the British right's most successful project since Thatcherism and Andy Stowe argues that Labour must offer voters a chance to vote on the deal that is event…
21 March 2018 · · Britain, Labour Party, Russia, Tories · 1 comment
No rush to judgement
Whoever was responsible for the use of chemical weapons against a Russian ex-spy in Salisbury, the main political beneficiary so far appears to be Teresa May, whose bellicose response has le…
19 March 2018 · · Britain, Labour Party
Corbyn supporters on a roll
It has been a good few weeks for Corbyn supporters in the Labour Party writes Andy Stowe . Steven Saxby, described by the Evening Standard as an "arch-Corbynite" has been selected as the par…
17 March 2018 · · Labour Party · 2 comments
Tory Liars: Corbyn and the Labour left opposed the East European regimes
The document below, taken from the Ukrainian Solidarity Campaign website, demonstrates just how absurd and misleading the recent slurs on Jeremy Corbyn presenting him as a supporter of Stali…
13 March 2018 · · Britain, Labour Party, Uncategorized · 1 comment
Austerity, Brexit and the Corbyn challenge
After the harshest winter for more than a decade, Britain finds itself still gripped by the icy fingers of neoliberal austerity, writes Phil Hearse . Both the health service (NHS) and local …
9 March 2018 · Britain, EU, Labour Party, Tories · 2 comments
Labour should grasp the Brexit nettle
Just when you think the crisis of the Tory party has reached rock bottom it gets worse, argues Alan Davies. Claims of ‘unity’ by Theresa May after her ‘keynote’ Mansion House Brexit speech o…
8 March 2018 · Britain, Labour Party, Women, trade unions
A red thread of militancy for March 8
Sylvia Pankhurst and the East End branch of the Women's Social and Political Union were kicked out of that organisation for supporting political causes other than women's suffrage and becaus…
4 March 2018 · Britain, Labour Party · 6 comments
Labour General Secretary – the agony of choice
Jon Lansman should let Jennie Formby have a clear run at a crucial Labour Party job, argues Andy Stowe. Corbyn supporting members were pleased when Iain McNicol announced in late February th…
28 February 2018 · Labour Party, Reviews
For the Many … Preparing Labour for power
This impressive and varied collection of voices from the left weaves this anthology assembled by Mike Phipps. F or the Many …Preparing Labour for power is reviewed by Margot Lindsay. In the …
6 February 2018 · · Housing, Labour Party, Regeneration, local government
How the Haringey Development Vehicle was defeated
On Wednesday February 7, another protest will be taking place in the London Borough of Haringey against the Haringey Development Vehicle ( HDV), marching through the area and then lobbying a…
26 January 2018 · · Labour Party, NHS
Build Feb 3 emergency demonstration for the NHS
1500 people thronged into Central Hall Westminster last night for a Labour Party rally to defend the NHS, writes Terry Conway . An enthusiastic audience, warmed up by the NHS choir, then hea…
5 January 2018 · · Labour Party, Reviews
The Radical Rebirth of Corbynite Politics
Jo Taku reviews the Second Edition of Richard Seymour’s Corbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics (Verso, 2017). This is a book that had its finger on the pulse in 2016 when it was fir…
3 January 2018 · · Labour Party, local government
The significance of the Birmingham bin workers’ strike
On November 24 2017, a resolution was reached to the Birmingham bin strike. Meeting at ACAS, Unite the union, representing the affected workers, agreed terms to end the strike with the counc…
22 December 2017 · · Labour Party
The party transformed?
2017 has been a remarkable year from Labour under Jeremy Corbyn, writes Susan Moore . Labour did so much better in the general election than anyone, including Labour activists, expected – im…
16 December 2017 · · Ecosocialism, Labour Party, Uncategorized · 1 comment
Corbyn to make politicians pensions greener
This week, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell signed the pledge for the Fossil Free UK campaign to Divest Parliament , writes Joe Walsh The Parliamentary …
13 December 2017 · · Britain, EU, Labour Party, Tories
May and EU staring down barrel of a Corbyn government
To say that last week was a remarkable week in politics does not do it justice, writes Alan Thornett. Theresa May travelled to Brussels at the start of the week to try to persuade Michel Bar…
8 December 2017 · · Housing, Labour Party
Haringey Labour steps up the fight against HDV
The wards in both constituency Labour Parties in the London Borough of Haringey, Hornsey & Wood Green and Tottenham have selected their candidates for next May's local council elections. The…
13 November 2017 · Labour Party, Reviews
1997 - The Future that never happened
1997: The future that never happened by Richard Power Sayeed, published by Zed Books Ltd October 2017, 341 pages reviewed by Tony Traub The author, Richard Power Sayeed, takes a broad sweep …
29 October 2017 · Labour Party
Antizionism does not equal antisemitism - defend Moshé Machover
Update : Following the huge display of support for Moshé Machover, with dozens of motions passed in CLPs and branches and an open letter to Jeremy Corbyn signed by more than 1300 Labour Part…
24 October 2017 · Climate Change, Ecosocialism, Labour Party
Young Labour supports fossil fuel disinvestment
Young Labour are calling for action on the climate crisis after a motion was passed at the National Youth Policy Conference 2017 over the weekend of October 14-15 reports Joe Walsh . It will…
21 October 2017 · · Britain, Ireland, Labour Party, Tories · 4 comments
Labour for Irish Unity
At a packed fringe meeting at the recent Labour Party Conference a new campaigning organisation, ‘Labour for Irish Unity’ was launched. The headline speaker was Ken Loach whose prize-winning…
5 October 2017 · · Labour Party
Transforming Labour
It’s difficult to convey the exhilaration felt by those present at Labour Party conference 2017; #Lab17. Some of the electric atmosphere seems to have reached those following through the med…
24 September 2017 · Britain, Labour Party, Tories, trade unions
Manchester – protest at the Tory conference
When the Tories gather for their conference in Manchester on Sunday 1 October, they will be greeted in the city by a demonstration marching behind the banner of “No More Austerity - Scrap Th…
21 September 2017 · Labour Party, Women
Democratise Labour Women's conference
Labour Women’s conference takes place in Brighton on Saturday September 23. But the conference will consider no resolutions and has no mechanism to impact on the main conference which will s…
15 September 2017 · Israel, Labour Party, Palestine
No backsliding on Palestinian rights
Labour’s National Policy Forum is trying to weaken an already inadequate party policy on Palestine explains Ariel Pardess Jeremy Corbyn led the Labour Party into the May general election wit…
29 August 2017 · Labour Party, antisemitism · 2 comments
Jewish Voice for Labour launched
As awareness of, and hostility to, the racism and war crimes of the Israeli state continue to grow, the state and its Zionist apologists respond ever-more desperately. Since they have compre…
6 July 2017 · Britain, Housing, Labour Party, trade unions · 1 comment
Step up the noise!
My ears are ringing says Terry Conway In four days I was on two protests when noise has been a central element of the action. Defend the Ritzy workers I spent time last Friday evening as par…
27 June 2017 · · Britain, Labour Party · 6 comments
Stop messing about - The Marxist left and Labour
The Socialist, paper of the Socialist Party (SP), estimates that Labour may now have more than 700 000 members writes Andy Stowe . There’s no doubt that the party’s membership has increased …
9 June 2017 · · Labour Party · 7 comments
A stunning result for Corbyn and Labour
Alan Davies argues: The election result is a triumph for Labour. Although the party has fallen marginally short of enough seats to form a government, Jeremy Corbyn has pulled off the biggest…
1 June 2017 · Labour Party
All to play for!
This is the most remarkable election campaign in living memory, argues Veronica Fagan. Labour under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership has dramatically narrowed the Tory lead. Yesterday The Guardian…
30 May 2017 · Labour Party
More than voting now!
Ian Parker is on the doorstep with Labour. These are the last days, a countdown to 8 June, and to a vote that will set the course for more austerity, more privatisation and a crackdown on ci…
18 May 2017 · Britain, Labour Party · 2 comments
For a Labour victory on June 8
Labour’s election manifesto launch has boosted Corbyn’s campaign, which has been drawing thousands to rallies across the country. Debate has shifted to a new level, replacing endless ridicul…
11 May 2017 · Labour Party, Scotland, Tories
Tory threat rises in Scotland
It’s not possible to deal with the local election results in Scotland in the same breath as those in England and Wales, argues Susan Moore. There are some organisational reasons for this to …
9 May 2017 · Labour Party · 2 comments
Local elections – disappointing but not disastrous
Veronica Fagan says that people shouldn’t just take their assessment from the BBC when thinking about the local election results in England and Wales. There is no doubt that the results, wit…
4 May 2017 · Labour Party · 1 comment
Corbyn presents a radical alternative
Jeremy Corbyn has done remarkably well since the general election was called, argues Alan Thornett. He hit the ground running and launched Labour’s campaign with a speech that attacked the r…
29 April 2017 · · Labour Party, Tories · 2 comments
Theresa May - a strong and stable leader?
Dave Kellaway looks at how far Theresa May is from the image she tries to project: Theresa May = Geoffrey Boycott Theresa May confesses that the former English opening batsman, Geoffrey Boyc…
19 April 2017 · · Labour Party, Tories
General election: Labour must present a radical alternative
by Alan Thornett Theresa May has called a general election for June 8 th hoping that Labour has been sufficiently weakened by the attacks of the right on the Corbyn leadership that she will …
8 April 2017 · Labour Party, antisemitism · 2 comments
Hero or villain? The Livingstone question
Continuing our discussion on the decision of the Labour Party to continue Ken Livingstone's suspension and the events surrounding it, we are happy to republish David Rosenberg's article belo…
6 April 2017 · Britain, Labour Party
A letter to Jeremy about Ken
On Wednesday, Ken Livingstone was suspended from membership for a further year for bringing the party into disrepute for comments he made in the defence of MP Naz Shah on a radio programme. …
28 March 2017 · Labour Party, trade unions · 1 comment
Vote McCluskey in the Unite election
As the ballot papers go out for the Unite General Secretary election, the need to re-elect Len McCluskey, in what is one of the most critical trade union elections in Britain in many years, …
12 March 2017 · · Britain, Labour Party · 1 comment
Momentum conferences are like buses
Andy Stowe reports from the first of this month’s Momentum conferences. Momentum describes itself as having “evolved out of Jeremy Corbyn’s 2015 Labour leadership bid to build on the energy …
27 February 2017 · · Britain, Labour Party · 8 comments
Corbynism after Copeland
by Alan Thornett It is to Jeremy Corbyn’s great credit that he has faced down, once again, the usual chorus of demands for him to resign—following Labour’s defeat in the Copeland by-election…
7 February 2017 · EU, Labour Party · 4 comments
No blocking and No hard Brexit – Abstain on Article 50
Below and here we present two positions on what approach Labour should take to article 50 from Socialist Resistance supporters: The vote for Brexit in last year’s referendum and the election…
7 February 2017 · EU, Labour Party · 1 comment
Labour’s conundrum over article 50
Below and here , we present two positions on what approach Labour should take to article 50 from Socialist Resistance supporters : The difficult situation Labour finds itself in over article…
2 February 2017 · · Labour Party, Uncategorized · 2 comments
Corbyn’s relaunch
Susan Moore looks at what the Labour leader has been doing since Christmas: Corbyn’s relaunch since the start of the year has seen him take a more combative and pro-active approach in puttin…
23 November 2016 · · Britain, Labour Party
A tale of two parties?
Veronica Fagan reports: Being in Liverpool during Labour Party conference was an extraordinary experience which I will struggle to adequately convey. In terms of what happened on conference …
15 October 2016 · Labour Party · 1 comment
‘Corbynism’ and the challenge for the left
The Corbyn movement is the most significant development on the left in British politics that has occurred in the course of most of our political lives. It is certainly the radicalisation wit…
24 September 2016 · Labour Party · 6 comments
Inside Labour is the heart of the class struggle
Andy Stowe writes about Jeremy Corbyn's election victory for leader and the process of change of the Labour Party. The Labour right, its friends in the press, the commentariat and their alli…
31 August 2016 · Labour Party
Corbyn: a new vision of democracy
Socialist Resistance has asked supporters of Jeremy Corbyn to tell us what they think are the most important things he has achieved in the last year and what their hopes are for the year ahe…
28 August 2016 · · Labour Party
Jeremy has put socialist politics at the heart of the Labour Party
Rodger McKenzie Socialist Resistance has asked supporters of Jeremy Corbyn to tell us what they think are the most important things he has achieved in the last year and what their hopes are …
26 August 2016 · Labour Party · 1 comment
The Kurdish community supports Jeremy Corbyn
The Kurdish community supports Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party and the next prime minister. The Kurdish community have known Jeremy Corbyn over many years during which time he ha…
24 August 2016 · Labour Party
Why we will win!
In the last rally of Jeremy Corbyn's campaign before the ballot papers went out, an huge crowd of 3,500, in Kilburn in North West London, brought together in less than 72 hours, were electri…
23 August 2016 · Labour Party
"Antisemitism" - a stick to beat Corbyn
AR Clarendon writes: Despite the comprehensive discrediting of the false allegations of widespread antisemitism in the Labour Party, this lie refuses to die, and has been more recently suppl…