A new history of Labour's engagement with Europe indicates that it has been driven more by expediency than internationalist principle.

by Tom Blackburn
March 9, 2020

Transphobia is intensifying in society as a whole and within the labour movement. We have prepared a model motion to try to help combat it.

by The Editors
March 5, 2020

The Labour left's presence in local government remains weak. What can the history of 'municipal Labourism' teach us about the challenges councils face today?

by Tom Blackburn
Jan. 4, 2020

With the push for Scottish independence only likely to gather in strength, Scottish Labour cannot afford to find itself on the anti-democratic side of the divide.

by Ewan Gibbs
Dec. 19, 2019

As crushing as Labour's electoral defeat was, the Labour left must find a way of picking itself up again - because the alternative doesn't bear thinking about.

by Tom Blackburn
Dec. 14, 2019

The media discourse on the election in Canterbury suggests that Remain will be decisive if Labour is to hold the seat, this erases questions of material need throughout the constituency.

by Leo Cookman
Nov. 28, 2019

The alliance between the Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and the Greens in Wales is a shabby piece of horsetrading that makes a Hard Brexit supporting Tory government more likely.

by Steve Davies
Nov. 20, 2019

Without the backing of a vibrant and assertive social movement behind it, any left-led Labour government risks merely occupying office rather than wielding real power.

by Tom Blackburn
Oct. 15, 2019

Any ‘progressive alliances’ involving the left must be ones of working-class solidarity – across ‘national’ borders, among communities and, where necessary, beyond party lines.

by Gareth Leaman
Sept. 29, 2019

Campaigning to trigger a full selection in Bermondsey & Old Southwark has shown me how ill-conceived this procedure is. We need open selection.

by Sam Foster
Sept. 21, 2019

The prospect of Welsh independence demonstrates how the dissolution of Britain and its rebuilding as a confederation can provide an opportunity for socialist change.

by Ben Gwalchmai
Sept. 5, 2019

Though a relatively forgotten figure today, renewed hostilities between Labour's left and right make the story of Reg Prentice's bitter divorce from the party newly relevant.

by Tom Blackburn
Aug. 14, 2019

Labour's recent struggles in some of its former post-industrial heartlands indicate long-term weaknesses of Labourism itself.

by David Bates
July 23, 2019

A participants overview and thoughts of Labours International Social Forum at SOAS in London on the 13th and 14th July 2019.

by Nolan MacGregor
July 21, 2019

Salford Community Theatre's latest production, 'The Salford Docker', points the way to new and more engaging forms of socialist political education.

by Beth Redmond
July 19, 2019

The achievements of mining communities and unions are celebrated in spite of the conditions in which they arose, not because of them, and this heritage also fuels today's struggles.

by Rhian E. Jones, Tom Blackburn
July 17, 2019

New legislation recently adopted in Scotland could spell the end of the Thatcherite consensus on buses south of the border as well.

by Pascale Robinson
June 20, 2019

With Labour's attempts at securing a Brexit compromise apparently dead, there are no easy answers for Jeremy Corbyn in deciding what to do next.

by Tom Blackburn
June 1, 2019

Universities are not just ‘marketplaces of ideas’ – the fight against racism and fascism must take place in academia as well as on the streets.

by Evan Smith
April 18, 2019

The British government has been unilaterally reneging on its obligations under the Good Friday Agreement, showing nothing but contempt for the citizens of its colony in the North of Ireland.

by Tomás Mac Tíre
April 9, 2019

The infrastructure of Corbynism provides a unique opportunity to build the socialism of the future: it is imperative we take it in our hands.

by Angus Satow
March 14, 2019

Labour Students is an organisation that has a long history of dubious practices, but this year it has provided a masterclass on how to exclude your base.

by Oliver Robinson
Feb. 23, 2019

A series of recent revelations have exposed the close ties between the fossil fuel industry and the higher education sector.

by Beth Bhargava
Feb. 13, 2019

From 7am tomorrow (22 January), outsourced workers across two major government departments — organised through two very different unions — will strike together.

by Joe Hayns
Jan. 21, 2019

To be at the forefront of the battle for an alternative future, Labour cannot be side-tracked into campaigning to restore the status quo ante.

by Paul O'Connell
Jan. 20, 2019

Those pushing for member-led local party democracy must be aware of the opposition they are likely to face, and to be prepared for it.

by James Bower
Jan. 8, 2019

The scheme planned for the Elephant and Castle provides yet another stark realisation of the housing crisis - and how we are still failing to resolve it in ways that meet the needs of existing communities

by Jack Buck
Dec. 18, 2018

Rescuing the memory of past working-class struggles, like Telford's 'Cinderloo', can kindle political commitment for the present and future.

by Paul Walsh, Pete Jackson
Nov. 19, 2018

Radical media reform is an absolute necessity. But redressing the imbalances in our media unavoidably requires prolonged and bitter political struggle.

by Tom Blackburn
Oct. 31, 2018

The people's vote campaign need to clarify key questions of tactics, aims, logistics and strategy.

by anonymous
Oct. 24, 2018

A quick Google of 'Corbyn Militant' can find you the current Labour leader opposing the purge of that organisation from Labour in the 1980s. What does it all mean?

by Stephen Daker
Oct. 20, 2018

The confused goals and loyalties of the anti-Brexit Left have rendered it unable to follow its convictions through to their meaningful conclusion.

by Urte Macikene
Oct. 18, 2018

The fight to save nurseries in Tower Hamlets has much to tell us about how the contradictions within Labour might play out over the coming years.

by NormCoresky
Oct. 17, 2018

With leadership changes in both Plaid Cymru and Welsh Labour, Dan Evans assesses the challenges now facing the left in Wales.

by Dan Evans
Oct. 13, 2018

It would be hard to come by a better opportunity to decriminalise abortion than the one we’ll be presented with on October 23.

by Beth Redmond
Oct. 12, 2018

An interview with two workers at London's Ivy House pub on their strike for union recognition, fixed-hour contracts and the reinstatement of sacked workers.

by Joe Hayns
Oct. 3, 2018

New proposals for Labour leadership nominations thresholds and reselection of MPs risk setting the entire Corbyn project back.

by Callum Cant
Sept. 19, 2018

UVW and PCS are going to be demonstrating together on the 5th September against both the Ministry of Justice and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

by Joe Hayns
Sept. 4, 2018

Momentum's Lead Organiser argues that tactical nous at conference will be crucial to changing the way Labour selects its parliamentary candidates.

by Rachel Godfrey Wood
Aug. 23, 2018

Democratising Labour is an uphill struggle, but we have the opportunity to empower the membership significantly and open up the selection procedure. It is vital we take it.

by Joe Bilsborough
Aug. 20, 2018

Whether UVW and IWGB’s militancy coheres and spreads is now one of the more pressing and increasingly practical questions not only for them, but the wider labour movement.

by Joe Hayns
Aug. 15, 2018

We take a closer look at the most important measures outlined so far by Labour's Party Democracy Review.

by The Editors
Aug. 10, 2018

Labour's Corbyn revolution has been viewed by controlling elements in the party machine in Wales as a dangerous insurgency.

by Meic Birtwistle
July 31, 2018

Except for a tiny few cases, all elected representatives of the Labour Party are only where they are because they enjoy the red rosette as lent by local members.

by Jumbo Chan, Paul William Fleming
July 14, 2018

The community play demonstrates how solidarity and celebration are interconnected and how essential this is to successful collective action.

by Sarah Weston, Isaac Rose
July 5, 2018

It is time for Labour in local government to send a message to the profiteering development industry that our communities are not for sale.

by Jack Buck
June 28, 2018

The weakness of the socialist pro-independence movement should be cause for concern rather than celebration for the Scottish Labour left.

by Laura Dover
June 25, 2018

The object of socialist political education has to be to continually foster the development, sharpening and intensification of popular demands.

by Tom Blackburn
June 17, 2018

Every party should let its members pick their candidates at every election; Labour doing so would lead to a better-functioning democracy for everyone.

by James Mackenzie
June 7, 2018

A statement from Young Labour's National Committee on why it is proposing drastic changes to parliamentary candidate selection.

by Young Labour National Committee
June 6, 2018

Many staff at colleges across Britain - as well as feeling demoralised and undervalued - are finding it increasingly difficult simply to make ends meet.

by anonymous
May 18, 2018

Labour's link to the SDLP should leave a sour taste in the mouth of any progressive or socialist.

by Odrán Waldron
May 17, 2018

A PLP that's in step with the Labour Party as a whole is imperative, and mandatory reselection the only method to realising that goal in the time we are likely to have available to us.

by NormCoresky
May 16, 2018

With its vastly expanded membership, Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party has the potential to help lead a grassroots cultural renewal.

by Tom Blackburn
April 30, 2018

Despite the leftward shift of the British Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn, in Wales it’s hard to be filled with much enthusiasm.

by Gareth Leaman
March 31, 2018

An interview with Lara McNeill, Momentum activist and newly-elected Youth Rep on the NEC

by Daniel Frost, Wendy Liu
March 28, 2018

In an exclusive extract from the new edition of "The Candidate: Jeremy Corbyn's Improbable Path to Power", Alex Nunns explains how the movement behind Corbyn came about.

by Alex Nunns
March 16, 2018

The Labour left shed few tears for Iain McNicol last month when, after nearly seven years in the job, he finally announced his intention to take his leave as general secretary of the Labour Party.

by The Editors
March 4, 2018

Capital taking advantage of post-conflict opportunities is transforming Belfast, but not in the interests of working class residents

by Conor McFall
Feb. 9, 2018

In 2014, I moved to Bath to study for a PhD at a university that was confident, growing and acclaimed.

by Ben Ralph
Feb. 7, 2018

The Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB) union has been organising, in its words, ‘some of the most vulnerable and under-represented workers in the UK’ since August 2012.

by Joe Hayns
Feb. 1, 2018

Over the past decade, north-west England has seen a dramatic rise in the number of people renting privately, and the costs they have to manage.

by Will Todd
Jan. 28, 2018

As we begin 2018, the housing crisis which is blighting the lives of Londoners, threatening communities and changing the face of our city is rolling on with relentless pressure.

by Jack Buck
Jan. 16, 2018

It is quite obvious that local government is, along with public sector unions, in the front line in the struggle against the Tory government.

by anonymous
Jan. 9, 2018

On Saturday February 3rd, London Young Labour will be holding their Annual General Meeting to elect the next chair and committee.

by The Editors
Jan. 2, 2018

In 2015, three retired Scottish workers from the Rolls-Royce factory of East Kilbride, Scotland received the highest honour given to foreign civilians from the Government of Chile to the rank of Commander.

by Felipe Bustos Sierra
Dec. 19, 2017

The Labour Party has long seen itself as the unequivocal champion of values of equality and diversity, and relies heavily on the ‘Ethnic Minority vote’ in elections.

by Rebecca Boumelha
Dec. 19, 2017

In the predictable rush by the right-wing media to label recent developments in the Labour Party a “hard-left purge”, the details of local circumstances are conveniently overlooked.

by anonymous
Dec. 6, 2017

New Socialist is calling on all socialists in the Labour Party to vote for all three candidates from the left slate - Jon Lansman, Yasmine Dar and Rachel Garnham.

by The Editors
Nov. 30, 2017

The Silicon Valley transport app Lyft recently launched a new service, calling it 'Shuttle'.

by NormCoresky
Nov. 20, 2017

Thursday morning tourists filing through Edinburgh’s Medieval old town on the way to view its castle were this week bemused to find themselves amid a far more modern conflict.

by Ewan Gibbs
Nov. 17, 2017

The death of car worker, trade union activist and Communist Derek “Red Robbo” Robinson last month at the age of 90 did not make an especially huge splash in the national media.

by Jack Saunders
Nov. 11, 2017

Let’s face it, local politics can be pretty humdrum at the best of times. Mired in stultifyingly dull procedural detail, it will always struggle - in its formal configuration - to appeal to those of a radical bent.

by Sean Cummins
Nov. 10, 2017

The Paradise Papers are the latest confirmation that when it comes to tax there is one rule for the super-rich and one for everybody else.

by Ewan Gibbs
Nov. 8, 2017

At the start of Richard Leonard’s 'Plan for Real Change in Scotland' he states: “We need to win again for all those people in all those communities who need a Labour government in Scotland."

by Claudia Beamish MSP
Nov. 3, 2017

Three years ago, my university took me to court. I was the first named defendant in an injunction case cracking down on a peaceful protest.

by Shelly Asquith
Oct. 24, 2017

Last weekend, young members of the Labour Party descended upon the University of Warwick to take part in the National Youth Policy Conference, which I attended as a delegate.

by Daniel Frost
Oct. 19, 2017

On October 14th and 15th, Young Labour will meet for its 2017 National Policy Conference where 303 delegates will debate submissions to the Labour Party’s National Policy Forum.

by Lara McNeill
Oct. 3, 2017

The success of the Socialist Health Association (SHA) motion to Labour’s 2017 conference marks significant progress.

by Peter Pannier
Sept. 29, 2017

Part one of a series with New Socialist editors reflecting on their experience of Labour Party Conference and The World Transformed 2017.

by oidptg
Sept. 29, 2017

The IPPR, which describes itself as The Progressive Policy Think Tank, has launched the interim report of its Commission on Economic Justice, titled Time for Change: A New Vision for the British Economy.

by Sahil Dutta
Sept. 28, 2017

Last week, it was announced that the party’s ruling National Executive Committee had agreed a deal relating to the so-called ‘McDonnell amendment’.

by The Editors
Sept. 25, 2017

The Labour Party’s analysis indicates that 86% of the burden of austerity since 2010 has fallen on women.

by Labour Women Leading
Sept. 23, 2017

The Labour Party Conference occupies a central role in the party’s culture.

by Tom Blackburn
Sept. 22, 2017

In choosing Richard Leonard, Scottish Labour would move towards the idea that workers can be active agents of change.

by Lauren Gilmour
Sept. 20, 2017

One of the promises made during Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership campaigns was for greater membership involvement in policy formation.

by Chris MacMackin
Sept. 19, 2017

Voting is now open, until this Wednesday (13th September), for the upcoming Young Labour policy conference.

by The Editors
Sept. 11, 2017

It’s become something of a cliché to say that Momentum and the Left within the Labour Party have not done enough to think about local government and, in particular, about Labour councils and councillors.

by Daniel Frost
Sept. 4, 2017

Since Jeremy Corbyn’s initial election as leader of the Labour Party in July 2015, the hundreds of thousands of people who have flocked into the party have been treated to something of a crash course on it.

by Tom Blackburn
Aug. 28, 2017

It is a truth universally acknowledged by all factions of the Labour Party that we could have done better in Scotland.

by Alex Harris-MacDuff
Aug. 12, 2017

The question of trade union decline is one that’s central to understanding labour relations and political discourse within Britain today.

by Jack Taylor
Aug. 8, 2017

This September, thousands of Labour Party members - including constituency and trade union delegates from across Britain - will descend upon Brighton for this year’s Labour conference.

by The Editors
Aug. 4, 2017

On Saturday 8 July, 200,000 people marched through the narrow streets of Durham city centre to the Racecourse to celebrate the 133rd Gala - the Big Meeting - of the Durham Miners’ Association (DMA).

by Steve Davies
July 29, 2017

This piece is a response to Nadine Houghton's article in New Socialist, 'Re-Newing Trade Unionism: What the Unions can learn from Labour's Election Campaign'.

by Frankie Leach
July 20, 2017

It seems that whenever the Labour left has the temerity to organise to bring about whatever changes it wishes to see, this is almost without fail treated as an unconscionable outrage.

by Tom Blackburn
July 11, 2017

Momentum ran a stellar campaign during the general election. Aside from a formidable ground game, they dominated the social media scene.

by Tom Munday
July 10, 2017

On the 14th of June early morning, I couldn't sleep due to the heat and my ongoing battle with insomnia. I was scrolling through Twitter trying to pass time and boredom when I found out about the Grenfell fire.

by Eleanor White
June 30, 2017

With this year’s Labour Party conference looming on the horizon, it may seem premature to some to start thinking ahead to the party’s 2018 gathering in Liverpool.

by The Editors
June 27, 2017

The province of Northern Ireland has been continually raised as a spectre during the election campaign and is now once more on the forefront of the political agenda.

by Rosa Gilbert
June 21, 2017

Labour Party members, supporters and activists - particularly those on the left - are still on something of a high after the party’s far better than expected performance in the recent general election.

by The Editors
June 21, 2017

I’ve always had a deeply ingrained sense that, rather than Wales abandoning the Labour Party, the Labour party had abandoned Wales.

by immolations
June 19, 2017

Union membership is in decline and yet the unions remain the most relevant and necessary organisations in the fight for a better, more equal society.

by Nadine Houghton
June 15, 2017

We caught up with four activists all of whom went out on the campaign trail for the Labour Party this spring.

by Tom Blackburn
June 14, 2017

There were many exciting outcomes; support for a left wing manifesto, increase in youth voter turnout, and strong performances in unexpected seats.

by Jenny Lennox, Eli Davies
June 13, 2017

It may come as a surprise that people from Protestant backgrounds can just be as anti-choice as their Catholic brethren.

by Eleanor White
June 13, 2017

The Labour leadership must urgently turn its attention to how it harnesses the capacities of the party membership, buoyed up by their recent successes.

by Tom Blackburn
June 12, 2017

Northern Ireland is regarded as a thing that happened rather than a place that exists; the country, and the issues it faces, are all but ignored.

by Conor McFall
June 12, 2017

We have learnt just how much more we are capable of. Everyone will feel able to do more than they did before.

by Daniel Frost
June 12, 2017

The Conservative government have seen a marked decrease in the support and services available to people with learning disabilities/difficulties.

by Christopher Blewitt
June 12, 2017