by Mike Katz | Mar 3, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Labour must show it understands that clamping down on tax evasion alone will not create the prosperity we need to fund our public services, argues Mike Katz Much of John McDonnell’s analysis of the government’s economic failure – and the risk to our prosperity and...
by Richard Angell | Mar 2, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Recognition of some of Jeremy Corbyn’s shortcomings is a step forward, but competence is not the only problem the leadership has, argues Richard Angell in response to Owen Jones The video Owen Jones published this week was brave. Many in his position would not...
by The Progressive | Mar 2, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine, The Progressive
Emmanuel Macron stands the best chance of beating Marine Le Pen but offers no hope for Labour’s modernisers Twenty years ago, the centre was radical, popular – even, at times, exciting. The Third Way was ascendant. Wim Kok, Gerhard Schroder, and Lionel Jospin were in...
by Kevin Peel | Mar 2, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
Keeping the United Kingdom intact could unite the party and the country, writes Kevin Peel At its annual conference at the end of February, the Scottish Labour party voted to make support for a federal United Kingdom its party policy. It is time for UK Labour to do...
by Richard Angell | Mar 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
British workers for British jobs: Can Labour revolutionise Britain’s skills offer? 6-7.30pm, Wednesday 15 March 2017 Committee Room 16, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA Our panellists will be discussing the long-term solutions for Britain’s skills shortage,...
by Bex Bailey | Mar 1, 2017 | Progressive reviews, Section: Progress Magazine
Bex Bailey finds encouragement from Jess Phillips’ feminist volume ‘You will never be popular’, starts Jess Phillips – words spoken to her by Harriet Harman when she first began speaking out for women in parliament. Women who speak out tend to receive a barrage of...
by Miriam Mirwitch | Mar 1, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
The Tories are failing people – and particularly failing young people – when it comes to mental health, argues London Young Labour chair Miriam Mirwitch Mental health services in the United Kingdom are chronically underfunded and ill-equipped to meet the needs of our...
by Leo Gibbons-Plowright | Mar 1, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
If Labour is to earn back trust in Copeland, it must stop pining after a working class that no longer exists and champion the interests of actual working people, writes Leo Gibbons-Plowright Copeland faces the same issues as so many places in England — poor transport...
by Spencer Livermore | Feb 28, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
In ordering peers to vote against retaining Britain’s membership of the single market, the leadership has placed Labour on the wrong side of history, writes Spencer Livermore The Labour party should always stand up for Britain’s national economic interest. That...
by Asif Mohammed | Feb 28, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Labour must have the moral courage to fight rightwing narratives that dehumanise refugees and asylum seekers, argues Asif Mohammed of the Labour Campaign for Refugees Seven years ago I stood in Rawalphindi’s busy Raja Bazaar drenched in sweat and drinking chai....
