by Stephen Beer | Feb 7, 2017 | Section: Web exclusive
Those hardest hit by globalisation have been betrayed not by free trade, but by governments unwilling to protect them from exploitation, argues Stephen Beer Not so long ago, free trade was seen as the route to greater prosperity and multilateral trade deals were...
by Conor Pope | Feb 6, 2017 | Monday Politics
While Labour ought to hold Copeland and Stoke, there was very little appetite for Labour’s current direction in either seat, writes Progress deputy editor Conor Pope ‘Well, now I’ve got that off my chest.’ With that, she smiled and closed the door. This was...
by The Progressive | Feb 6, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine, The Progressive
The eternal truth that the far-left loves schisms has been proved right again There is an old joke on the left which runs something like this: if you put five Trots in a room, pretty soon you will have six different factions. It is not a great joke, I will grant you,...
by Charlie Samuda | Feb 6, 2017 | Democracy in America
The first fortnight of Donald Trump’s presidency has been an unrelenting series of man-made horrors, writes Charlie Samuda Netflix’s show Designated Survivor is not very good, but it does make a point about the different sources of political power in the United...
by Richard Angell | Feb 3, 2017 | The Last Word
Article 50 has plunged Labour into the thick of the controversy of leaving the European Union this week. The very issue Labour could once use to divide the Tory party leaves Labour looking like they are all over the place. The vacuum in leadership allows a three line...
by Richard Carr | Feb 3, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
Brexit reveals the Labour leader’s longstanding worldview as a paradox of open borders and a closed shop economy, writes Richard Carr We live in uneasy political times. If Whitehall might be ‘muddled’ on Brexit, Labour is currently mystifying on the issue. This...
by Grace Skelton | Feb 3, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
It is anti-imperialism that drives Jeremy Corbyn and his hard-left cadre, argues Grace Skelton Speak to most Momentum activists and they will proudly tell you that for decades Jeremy Corbyn has stood shoulder to shoulder with those struggling against the establishment...
by Greg Rosen | Feb 3, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine
Socialist protectionism is as unattractive now as in the 1970s After Labour’s 1970 election defeat, Tony Benn convinced himself that he could succeed next time where last time he and his colleagues had failed. Benn’s ‘alternative economic strategy’ envisaged import...
by Richard Angell | Feb 2, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine, The Progress interview
Labour must accept – and understand – the referendum, Keir Starmer tells Richard Angell and Conor Pope While the vote to leave the European Union last June may have quickly claimed the career of a Conservative prime minister as its first political victim, it is...
by The Insider | Feb 2, 2017 | Section: Progress Magazine, The Insider
Another dispatch from inside the Westminster village Something is just not working. No matter how much he tries, Jeremy Corbyn just cannot find any peace and quiet. There was only one thing that could fix this: a brief foray into the world for a relaunch. We know it...
