Whatever the result of the Democratic Primaries, the Socialist Republicanism of Eugene V. Debs offers a way forward in conceptualising socialism as a politics of freedom.

by Tom O'Shea
March 15, 2020

Public ownership is popular, was a key feature of the last two manifestos and is necessary to address the ecological and regional crises. Only Rebecca Long-Bailey takes it seriously.

by Terry Cox
Feb. 22, 2020

Post-War New Towns were shaped by the contradictions in social democracy and then the destructive effects of neoliberalism, but New New Towns should be part of imagining new possibilities.

by Holly Firmin
Feb. 5, 2020

John McDonnell's UBS report offers a potential framework for a revolution in the ways we conceive of and meet our needs.

by Tom Gann, josie sparrow
Sept. 23, 2019

Today, the Labour Party launches an official National Policy Forum consultation on the subject of democratic public ownership.

by Thomas M. Hanna
Feb. 25, 2019

Defending Labours ambitious and potentially transformative agenda for reforming the economy—one with new, cutting edge forms of public ownership and economic democracy.

by Thomas M. Hanna
Sept. 24, 2018

We have the potential to rewrite history if we understand the magnitude of the situation we find ourselves in.

by John McDonnell MP
June 23, 2018

The plans for partial re-nationalisation of energy in Labour's manifesto are too locally-oriented. Instead, we should embrace national planning of electricity through centralised ownership.

by Chris MacMackin
April 12, 2018

This is the seventh (and final) part of our write-up and analysis of Labour's New Economics Conference on alternative models of ownership.

by Tom Gann
March 4, 2018

This is the sixth part of our write-up and analysis of Labour's New Economics Conference on alternative models of ownership.

by Tom Gann
March 2, 2018

The fifth part of our write-up and analysis of Labour's New Economics Conference on alternative models of ownership.

by Tom Gann
Feb. 28, 2018

The fourth part of our write-up and analysis of Labour's New Economics Conference on alternative models of ownership.

by Tom Gann
Feb. 26, 2018

The third part of our write-up and analysis of Labour's New Economics Conference on alternative models of ownership.

by Wendy Liu
Feb. 24, 2018

The second part of our write-up and analysis of Labour's New Economics Conference on alternative models of ownership.

by Wendy Liu
Feb. 21, 2018

The first part of our write-up and analysis of Labour's New Economics Conference on alternative models of ownership.

by Tom Gann
Feb. 21, 2018

The Meidner funds, proposed in Sweden in the seventies, offer a potential complement to Labour's Alternative Models of Ownership report.

by Mio Tastas Viktorsson
Feb. 20, 2018

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

The Labour Manifesto proposes to establish a National Investment Bank and a network of regional development banks.

by John Marlow
Aug. 11, 2017

There’s a difference between policies and power. If a left-wing party wants to turn its manifesto promises into political practice it needs to construct the capacity to do so.

by Sahil Dutta, Paul Gilbert
Aug. 7, 2017

Labour is now on a permanent war footing and is a realistic contender for office. As a result, the left must now get much more serious about policy and strategy.

by Joe Guinan, Thomas M. Hanna
June 19, 2017

Our economy is clearly not working, and this report provides an indispensable analysis of why, situating present outcomes in fundamental structural flaws.

by The Editors
June 11, 2017