Labour Party

‘Don’t silence our criticism of Israel,’ Palestinians tell Labour Party

18 September 2020
A group of prominent Palestinians in Britain have written an open letter to the Labour Party insisting on their right to call Israel—and its founding ideology Zionism—racist.

The story of how Corbyn’s compromises led to defeat

11 September 2020
Left Out is a book for people who think Keir Starmer is doing a good job. But it also holds some valuable lessons for genuine socialists—and hard truths about the Labour Party.

Letters—It’s time for a new squatters’ movement to win us housing

05 September 2020
The horrendous situation facing renters during the Covid-19 pandemic, especially in the private sector, is going to get much worse after 21 September

Labour campaign director accused of undermining the leader of his own party

01 September 2020
A former senior Labour Party official has admitted to undermining left wing leader Jeremy Corbyn during the 2017 general election campaign.

Chile 1970—why the hope was broken

30 August 2020
50 years ago Salvador Allende was elected Chile’s president. A US-backed coup overthrew him three years later. But, writes Sophie Squire, there were deeper problems than the US and the military that helped turn hope into horror

Why the Labour left is weak

25 August 2020
Even some of the Labour right are starting to get fed up with their party leader Keir Starmer.

How super-rich buy their way out of the coronavirus crisis

18 August 2020
The super-rich are buying citizenship in countries with lower coronavirus rates in order to protect their health.

Tower Hamlets strikers block road as defiant resistance continues

17 August 2020
Workers in east London finished their latest round of strikes by marching to demand the Labour council call off their attacks.

Tower Hamlets strikers savage Labour mayor and his vicious attacks

13 August 2020
Workers in east London have fired the opening shot in the latest round of council strikes.

Back new strikes by Tower Hamlets council workers

11 August 2020
A THREE-DAY strike was set to hit Tower Hamlets council this week, with workers planning to walk out to defend terms and conditions.

Battles and infighting inside Labour reflect the party’s limits

10 August 2020
A vicious battle is being fought inside the Labour Party over a dizzyingly complex series of leaks, rumours and court cases.

Letters- 'We are determined to stay on the streets in Portland'

07 August 2020
Our protests In Portland started with the Minneapolis uprising and have continued every day for well over two months.

NHS protests point the way to win change

04 August 2020
The NHS workers’ pay revolt is hugely welcome. It shows how there is real anger in society and working class fury can explode unexpectedly, often outside the official channels of the labour movement.

When Labour leader Starmer stood up for Palestinian rights

04 August 2020
In 2019 the vile slur was spread that the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PCS) is antisemitic.

Smears used by the Labour right to marginalise the left

27 July 2020
Right wing politicians, journalists and supporters of Israel have launched a new attack on the left after the Labour Party apologised to people who labelled it antisemitic.

Fight the claim that the left is antisemitic

27 July 2020
The renewed assault on the left is bigger than Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party. Disgraceful accusations of antisemitism are flung almost indiscriminately at the whole of the left.

Letters - ‘Kickstart’ program will give bosses opportunity to exploit

23 July 2020
Measures announced in Rishi Sunak’s mini-budget supposedly to help workers have been welcomed by the TUC.

Labour payouts after antisemitism claims will mean more assaults on the left

23 July 2020
The left faces further assaults from the right following a huge pay-out and apology to so-called whistleblowers who appeared in a BBC documentary last year.

Lisa Nandy draws line under Corbyn and attacks Tories from the right

20 July 2020
The Labour Party is desperate to prove it can be right wing over accusations of Russian interference and the West’s trade war with China.