Section: Progress Magazine Articles

Australia has a new prime minister, again Malcolm Turnbull has long been Tony Abbott’s nemesis. My first contact with both was as a teenager campaigning for Australia to become a republic at the 1999 referendum. Turnbull was leading the Australian Republican Movement,...

Tanked up Adam Harrison with the latest from the wonk world One of the most seminal texts in Labour party history – yet one that is unfortunately not heeded enough – is Southern Discomfort, Giles Radice’s 1992 study of floating voters in southern marginal seats who...

Of all Labour’s ‘great resignations’, arguably the most celebrated is Nye Bevan’s in 1951. Bevan famously refused to accept the introduction of NHS charges for teeth and spectacles. Hugh Gaitskell, Clement Attlee’s chancellor and Bevan’s then rival, insisted charges...

Transforming trade unionism in the modern world When I became a trade union member a month shy of my 16th birthday in 1989 in Rosyth Royal Dockyard, every one of the other 150 or so apprentices joined too. We were entering a workplace that had 6,000 employees where...