Gouldnomics and the ‘Future of Socialism’

Its 1989 and Labour is going through the throes of its quest for ‘Modernisation’. Tony Benn has just lost the leadership election, depressing a generation of Labour activists, and Peter Mandelson has begun to ramp up his project that would eventually become New Labour. In this rather fluid climate of shifting allegiances, policies and politics,

From Kinnock to Keir: What We Can Learn from the Labour of the 1980s

After the 2019 election defeat, the Labour Party were in similar circumstances to the 1983 election defeat… What lessons can Labour learn from then?

The Great Leftie Lockdown Literature List

Looking for some good lefite literature to read to get you through the lockdown? If the answer is yes, then, good news, this list is for you. If not, try reading Ayn Rand I guess? Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell, 1938) You’ve probably read Orwell’s other books like Animal Farm and 1984 (and if not

The task ahead for Labour

There’s a myth that does the rounds in the wake of a bruising election defeat, as pervasive as it is wrong: you can’t change anything if you’re not in power. Most often this is a line peddled by party ‘moderates’, to either dissuade or besmirch the more radical elements of their party calling for faster,

The Popular Front, Progressive Alliance and one way we could beat Boris…

The 1930s, the height of the Great Depression. In this time of great poverty and unemployment people started to turn towards extreme politics, in particular in the form of fascism. Despite having existed since the 1920’s, the 30’s was when fascism truly started to rise, from the Nazi’s of Germany to the Falange of Spain

It’s Time For Truth and Reconciliation in the Labour Party

Let’s start with a disclaimer: it was reckless and stupid to leak a report into antisemitism to the media and the public without redacting the names of victims in the cases contained within its pages. These people have now been needlessly put at risk as their identities have been revealed to the far right. No