General Election 2019.
All of the articles we have published under the tag General Election 2019, beginning with the most recent.
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Back to 'Between the Wars'?
Billy Bragg’s 1985 hit remains both a rallying cry and a warning.
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Gaining ground: Socialist Movement-Building for the New Decade
As mass politics has returned, in order to win we need our parties to actively develop institutions which can involve our class. This requires real thought about communities and our media.
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Activists' Inquiry - Hopes and Frustrations
In our final inquiry of 2019, we have collected together submissions reflecting on hopes and frustrations felt during the general election.
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Activists' Inquiry - Canvassing with Care, and Hopes and Frustrations
Following attacks on Labour canvassers, we asked for submissions on the theme 'canvassing with care'. In the final week, we're asking for contributions about hopes and frustrations experienced in the campaign.
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Guide for Canvassing and Getting Out the Vote
We have to win. We will win. How to be an effective canvasser in the final days of the campaign.
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Fracking bans, Election Giveaways and the Fight for the Future
How should the Tory moratorium on fracking be understood in the context of their efforts to reshape society and the state to render them even more subject to the logic of the market.
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The IFS is a Mouthpiece for the Status Quo, including on Financial Transactions Taxes – and It’s Time to Call That Out
The IFS opposes Labour's Financial Transactions Tax, what is its ideological role in trying to discredit new economic thinking about the problems of British capitalism?
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Everything is horribly, brutally possible: On Political Disavowal
The reactionary disavower wants to stake a claim to a mode of rationality which is as equally grounded in feeling and fantasy as the furthest-out-there utopian and moralistic socialists.
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The Fight of Our Lives
Why thousands who had never taken part in political activism before are campaigning for Labour.
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Activists' Inquiry - Campaigning with Kids and Canvassing with Care
Each week for the remainder of the election, New Socialist are inviting contributions of no more than 200 words about an aspect of the campaign. Last week, we asked about experiences of campaigning with children.
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Another Pardoner's Tale: Labour in Canterbury and Whitstable
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.
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Trans Rights and the Labour Manifesto
Labour's manifesto offers a great deal but when it comes to trans rights there is a worrying ambiguity around the Equality Act and trans healthcare is completely ignored.
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Labour Homelessness Campaign: Questions from the Editors
We caught up with Labour Homelessness Campaign activist Tom Balderstone to ask him about the campaign's work, including its current voter registration drive.
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Activists' Inquiry - Beginnings and Campaigning with Kids
For our first set of contributions, we asked about the start to the election campaign. For the next week, we’re looking for contributions on the theme of campaigning with kids.
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Pro-remain electoral pact in Wales – the not very progressive alliance
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.
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Mental Health Vote 2019: Get Involved
In 2010 turnout among mental health inpatients was 14%, Mental Health Vote 2019 are organising to help enfranchise mentally ill people.
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Activists' Inquiry - Beginnings
With another general election well underway, New Socialist is collecting stories from the campaign as it happens.
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Is Labour's new global tax enough?
Labour's new global tax policy rightly draws on radical new ways to ensure wealth is shared even when produced across borders. But limits remain and need addressing if this will challenge uneven development.
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Election Resources for People with Learning Disabilities
People with learning disabilities are systematically excluded from the democratic process, here is a collection of resources of easy read election resources to help try to counter that exclusion.
