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Mainstream – Labour needs its movement back
Luke Hurst and Neal Lawson explain how Mainstream aims to help Labour open up and rediscover its values and thirst for radical change
When a party...
Hope and faith — but no vision
Amsterdam’s PES Congress showed social democrats know what they’re against. They still struggle to say what they’re for.
From 16–18 October, Europe’s social democrats gathered...
Where is housing for social rent?
Duncan Bowie on the Government’s failure on affordable housing
Not only is the Government’s target of 1.5 million new homes over the five year parliamentary...
Government versus Students, Migrants, and Education
There are deep roots to the crisis in higher education. Labour's policies on multiple exam retakes for troubled students and restrictions on the rights...
Dutch template for red-green alliance
Julie Ward surveys the decline of social democracy across Europe identifying a possible alternative
European social democracy, as we have come to know it, is...
Big Green State needs political courage
Ann Pettifor says Labour needs to escape the ideology of financialisation if it is to successfully tackle climate breakdown and build a greener just...
Red Welsh way
Eluned Morgan says Wales is at a crossroads, and it’s a battle that will resonate across the UK
Journalists who are usually London-based and London-focused...
Local socialism – making it happen
Tom Miller outlines a range of measures to improve local services and wellbeing while boosting local Labour
Central planks of the Labour government’s ambitions depend...
Returning to basic socialist values – and soon!
Duncan Bowie on finding Labour's soul
The current Labour government is seen as lacking a clear political objective, which can be viewed as value-based. The...
Organised irresponsibility
Mary Kaldor and Luke Cooper explain how Britain’s defence strategy clings to a bygone world
The German sociologist, Ulrich Beck, coined the term “organised irresponsibility”...
Is Starmer meeting the challenge?
The two party system is over but Trevor Fisher argues digital ID cards and tacking to the right on immigration show Labour is failing...
The human cost of Trump’s War on Foreign Aid
Micheal Nelson Byaruhanga reports UK and US foreign aid cuts will consign millions of people to disease and early deaths
At Biiso Health IV in...