General Election 2017.
All of the articles we have published under the tag General Election 2017, beginning with the most recent.
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A closer look at #Grime4Corbyn and the 2017 ‘youthquake'
How the alliance of grime and Corbynism bridged the gap between formal and informal politics and strengthened youth engagement.
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The Ends of Austerity: Reflections on the 2017 UK General Election and its immediate Aftermath
In the United Kingdom, the ends of austerity have been served, although – despite its final whistle ostensively being blown – its end is nowhere really in sight.
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Poor Gramsci
In 1987, the late Stuart Hall published an essay titled ‘Gramsci and Us’ in Marxism Today, then (still officially at least) the theoretical journal of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
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Understanding and Building on the Manifesto
The General Election result not only settles the question of the Labour leadership but also of the broad contours of the programme, at least in terms of social and economic policy, for the next election.
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Community Solidarity after Grenfell
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.
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Transforming Labour: Rule Changes for 2018
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.
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Class Interests and Campaigning in 2017
Some insightful comparisons have been drawn in recent weeks between the Labour Party’s platform at the recent general election and their platform in 1983.
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Reproductive Justice and the 2017 General Election—What Could Have Been
I've been a Labour member and activist for around a decade, and one of the most common refrains I've heard on the doors over the years is that politicians can't be trusted: all the parties are the same.
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No Time For Game Theory
"Credibility" is a sort of shadow-play in which sincerity is always understood to be instrumental, a token, something more or less successfully faked.
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Northern Ireland, The DUP and Colonialism
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.
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Organising for Conference
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.
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Full Corbynism: Constructing a new left Political Economy beyond Neoliberalism
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.
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Reflections from Wales
I’ve always had a deeply ingrained sense that, rather than Wales abandoning the Labour Party, the Labour party had abandoned Wales.
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Notes on the Reshuffle
Earlier this week Corbyn quietly announced a reshuffle of his Shadow Cabinet.
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Fantasy Politics
What happens when the most firmly held of common senses meet the hard reality of political transformation?
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Pragmatics for Pragmatists
‘Fucking melt’, ‘salt the slugs’, ‘absolutely bodied by the absolute boy’. The left internet at the peak of the election was alive with raucous glee.
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Corbyn's Emerging Class Coalition
After the June 2017 General Election, can we see a new class coalition emerging?
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The Hegemon Crack'd
After the election result I couldn’t help being reminded of the classic TV show Columbo. It played out a little like that.
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Re-Newing Trade Unionism: What the Unions can learn from Labour's Election Campaign
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.
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A Vow of Silence? A Chronicle of Internal Attempts to Sabotage the Labour Election Campaign
Throughout the election campaign, New Socialist kept a record of what we argue amounted to attempts at sabotage of the Labour Party’s election campaign.
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Hope, Slammed Doors and "Ronnie Corbett": Tales from the Campaign Trail
We caught up with four activists all of whom went out on the campaign trail for the Labour Party this spring.
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Terror, Tragedy and the Political
In British society, war is presented as a ‘pragmatic’ matter; this depoliticisation of war has created a politics that revolves almost entirely around it.
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The State of the New PLP
A hugely significant but largely unremarked upon aspect of last Thursday’s election result is the fact that the parliamentary left has grown.
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The Stuplime Object of Ideology
It’s worth exploring precisely why there is, and will continue to be, a lingering anxiety about the trustworthiness of centrist détente.
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A Missing Link: British Attitudes towards Abortion in Ireland and Northern Ireland
It may come as a surprise that people from Protestant backgrounds can just be as anti-choice as their Catholic brethren.
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The Red Tide Hits Chingford
There were many exciting outcomes; support for a left wing manifesto, increase in youth voter turnout, and strong performances in unexpected seats.
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It Was a Fantasy: Centrist Political Commentators in the Age of Corbynism
A small group of handsomely paid political commentators convinced themselves that they understood the governing laws of electoral politics.
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On the Croydon Central Campaign
We have learnt just how much more we are capable of. Everyone will feel able to do more than they did before.
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Independence is not the Same as Isolation: Political Experiences of People with Learning Disabilities/Difficulties
The Conservative government have seen a marked decrease in the support and services available to people with learning disabilities/difficulties.
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Northern Ireland: Past and Present, Real and Imaginary
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.
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Corbynism from Below?
The Labour leadership must urgently turn its attention to how it harnesses the capacities of the party membership, buoyed up by their recent successes.
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This is Just the Beginning: Corbynism's Next Steps
Despite the polling uncertainty of the last couple of weeks, the overall picture of this general election is now clear.
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Election Special 2017
What happened? Why did it happen? What do we do now? New Socialist will launch on June 12th with our election special which will address these questions.