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Labour’s Budget Choice
Taxing the rich, closing loopholes and ending privatisation can reduce child poverty, inequality and boost investment argues Prem Sikka
Sustained economic growth has been the...
Taxing the rich
Ignacia Punto asks to tax or not to tax the rich? Will Labour meet the challenge in the Autumn Budget
It has now been over...
England for the English?
John Denham examines the flag phenomenon, why Labour is getting its response to England dangerously wrong and why it should develop a programme of...
The Resistible Rise of Donald Trump
As Trump’s authoritarian rule rumbles across the US and internationally Paul Garver examines its impact and the resistance
Nearly a full year since Trump’s re-election,...
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...
Political lessons from France
Patrick Costello sees Macron on the back foot with the far right threatening and the left alliance fracturing
Possibly the biggest irony of Emmanuel Macron’s...
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...
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...
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...