Labour Party

Labour nationalisation plan will pit party against bosses

13 February 2018
The Labour Party’s left wing leadership promised an assault on private energy and water firms last weekend.

Haringey residents fight the HDV

11 February 2018
Haringey residents fight to keep their homes

Haringey—the people against the developers

10 February 2018
A battle by ordinary people against estate demolitions in north London could be on the edge of victory. Alistair Farrow spoke to residents about the fight, and explains why it matters to everyone facing cuts and selloffs

A chance missed to bury HDV scheme but battle continues

08 February 2018
Labour councillors in Haringey, north London, squandered the chance to bury a high-profile redevelopment deal but it's still on the rocks

Councillors tell Corbyn to back off and let them make cuts

06 February 2018
Right wing Labour Party councillors are trying to lead a fightback against Jeremy Corbyn and Labour’s left wing leadership

Lies about the single market

02 February 2018
Sadie Robinson looks at the new pamphlet by the Labour Party right wingers claiming to bust “Lexit myths”. It weakly accepts the limits of the bosses’ system

Activists won’t let cuts fell Yorkshire trees

02 February 2018
Outside my front door on a tree-lined Sheffield street, protesters were up against private security guards as police looked on.

Property bosses and Labour right are scared of the revolt against redevelopments

01 February 2018
A shiver of fear is running through the boardrooms of property developers—and the cabals of right wing Labour councillors.

After Claire Kober quits in Haringey - turn the tables on pro-cuts Labour councils

30 January 2018
Defeat for the Labour right in Haringey could spur wider resistance, writes Alistair Farrow

Doncaster protest defends woman who is fighting domestic violence service cuts

28 January 2018
Protesters gathered to defend South Yorkshire Women’s Aid and Louise Harrison.

At the Presidents Club: Tory donors, Labour businessman

26 January 2018
Attendees have tried to defend the event, but it's indefensible

NHS rally hears from Jeremy Corbyn - now march on 3 February

25 January 2018
Some 1,500 people joined a Labour Party rally for the NHS in the Methodist Central Hall in central London on Thursday night.

The Haringey Development Vehicle is on the ropes - now fight to put it down for good

25 January 2018
The HDV is a 'social cleansing' redevelopment affecting seven estates and 4,000 households. A demo and vote on 7 February could kill it.

Global elite wallow in wealth at Davos summit

23 January 2018
Bosses, politicians and celebrities descended on Davos in Switzerland this week for the World Economic Forum (WEF).

Join protest over dismissal of activist Louise Harrison and to defend women’s aid

23 January 2018
Supporters of South Yorkshire Women’s Aid (SYWA) and Louise Harrison were set to protest in Doncaster on Saturday.

The great PFI swindle

20 January 2018
It’s a long way from the partly built 40-mile £750 million Aberdeen bypass, work on which has been routinely delayed, to the £4 billion luxury development in Doha, Qatar.

Seize every chance to defeat the Haringey social cleansing plan

20 January 2018
The fight against the Haringey Development Vehicle (HDV) continues to expose the contradictions inside the Labour Party.

What would Labour in office need to survive?

19 January 2018
New books try to answer how a government led by Jeremy Corbyn would survive, writes Nick Clark

Elephant and Castle campaigners tell developers to pack their bags

17 January 2018
A strong campaign pressured the Southwark council planning committee to vote down proposals to redevelop the Elephant and Castle shopping centre in south London.

Corbyn caves in to pressure as ally Chris Williamson goes

16 January 2018
The Labour Party’s left wing leadership has shown serious signs of accommodating to the right and big business in a bid to appear respectable.