community organising Articles

The Guardian’s story last month about rising membership in the Labour party is welcome news. On 6 May last year, 201,293 people were members of the party. This number is now around the 388,407 mark. It nearly reaches our last high point of 400,000 odd in 1997, before...

Field ops matter in tight fights We are the postmen and postwomen of the party – we deliver the message. That is essentially the job of field operations – the campaigners, the footsoldiers, the volunteers, call us what you will. And fieldwork can, done right, make all...

The Labour party in government will urgently need to cultivate the seeds of movement politics it sowed in opposition, writes Mark Ferguson The Labour party is not a staid, safe and secure party ensconced in Westminster. It is not enshrined in a single man or woman. It...

Margaret Hodge has set about engagement in our communities as the topic of the week. I have thought about how we are doing this in Bristol West, how we might improve and how it is currently connected to what we are picking up on doorstep and on the phone. In the...