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Burnham at Party Conference:  Has the  left-progressive message advanced?

Hope back on the agenda with sketchy plans to deal with the cost-of-living crisis. Is it enough?  Don Flynn argues the long years of...
Youth View

‘We are at risk of a lost generation’

How serious will the new government be about the Young People and Work Interim Report asks Rebekah Morton? One in eight young people, those aged...
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What Ukraine needs now

Ukrainian trade union organiser Artem Tivda spoke to Chartist about the challenges facing Ukrainians under Russian bombardment. Before the full-scale invasion, Ukrainian official statistics reported...
Books

Which people, which revolution?

Victor Anderson on Populism in France Now, the People!: Revolution in the 21st Century by Jean-Luc Melenchon published by Verso Jean-Luc Melenchon could become President of...
Features

Free the Filton 25

Burnham says Labour got Gaza wrong but what about the Filton 25 asks Caitlin Barr Andy Burnham has apologised for Labour getting Gaza wrong. He...

Editorial

Editorial

Editorial 342

Great Expectations Andy Burnham’s swift return to Parliament and ascent to Labour leader and prime minister has inevitably raised expectations among supporters and a wider, volatile electorate. Now...
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Free the Filton 25

Burnham says Labour got Gaza wrong but what about the Filton 25 asks Caitlin Barr Andy Burnham has apologised for Labour getting Gaza wrong. He...

Where Next?

After over 20 years on Labour’s NEC Ann Black reflects on Starmer’s wasted years and a new leader As I leave the NEC, the political...

From vision to reality

Duncan Bowie on three key challenges for Burnham and Rayner Andy Burnham has had a very busy first few weeks as Prime Minister. Parliament is...

Rebuilding Labour’s Democratic Left

Back in the Autumn of 2023 Labour Hub launched a new podcast, with host Bryn Griffiths, one of their regular contributors to foster strategic...
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Uxbridge not a bellwether

In the wake of the Uxbridge by-election Bryn Jones says Labour’s wobbling on green policies will not win it any votes
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Driscoll affair echoes Livingstone

Will Jamie Driscoll’s departure be a repeat of the Livingstone London mayor fiasco? asks Trevor Fisher
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Labour’s National Policy Forum must back proportional representation

The vast majority of CLPs support it, as do two-thirds of affiliated trade unions. So, will the NPF accept the case for PR? Maximilian Czekalski explains why it should
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No time to stay silent

Margaret Owen asks why Starmer is ignoring the obvious ways to win the women’s vote
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Books

Life of a German Jacobin

Glyn Ford on a great visionary The Traveller: The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and his Search for Humanity by Andrea Wulf published by Allen...
Books

Revolutionaries in Fitzrovia

Duncan Bowie on Communards in exile The Paris Commune in Britain by Laura Forster published by Oxford University Press   This is an important book as...
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Our International History 21

Lajos Kossuth: Hungarian republican nationalist Kossuth was a deputy in the Hungarian diet (Parliament), and a journalist who was imprisoned for criticising the Austro-Hungarian government....

Westminster View

Saving Durham Pride from Reform

Mary Kelly Foy on community action The results of the recent local elections were, for many, a jarring wake-up call. While the headlines focused on...