The sacking of Long-Bailey requires a drawing of a firm line. Socialist Campaign Group members on Labour's front bench should resign.

by The Editors
June 25, 2020

To begin the era of Starmer and Rayner by taking sides in a battle between two non-socialists would be a mistake. The left needs to develop an independent socialism.

by Nicky Hutchinson
May 13, 2020

The decision not to readmit Williamson offers a sliver of hope that the left of the Party, and its apparatus, may yet be able to tackle antisemitism.

by The Editors
June 30, 2019

Both the Conservative and Labour Party have found themselves divided over Brexit, but neither calls for a People's Vote or 'Lexit' are an adequate response to an insurgent nationalism

by Jules Joanne Gleeson
April 4, 2019

To claim that working-class women don't do politics is to overlook past and present experience of how, and what happens when, they do.

by Rhian E. Jones
March 8, 2019

To get further than vapid statements about ‘change’ and ‘politics being broken’, centrists must ask themselves some fundamental questions about beliefs and strategy.

by Juliet Jacques
March 5, 2019

The departure of seven Labour MPs from the party, with the possibility of more to follow, offers Labour an historic opportunity to resolve a fundamental identity crisis.

by The Editors
Feb. 18, 2019

Corbyn’s digital speech is a good start, but we should look to redecentralise the web rather than build new social media monopolies.

by James Moulding, Irina Bolychevsky
Aug. 25, 2018

An interview with Richard Burgon MP: 'We need to be ready for a general election whenever it comes'

by The Editors
July 25, 2018

The US government is not the only government separating migrant families - the UK government is also complicit in this, and it must end

by Diane Abbott MP
July 4, 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

Do plans for an elected Lords go far enough or should the Labour leadership look to ideas around full abolition and the creation of a Citizen's Assembly?

by oidptg
April 5, 2018

Left-wing women have long struggled to feel fully represented in parliamentary politics.

by Eve Livingston
Nov. 28, 2017

Wednesday’s budget was more striking for the economic indicators and forecasts produced by the Office for Budgetary Responsibility than for any of its specific policies.

by Tom Gann, Wendy Liu, Kyle
Nov. 25, 2017

This week in Parliament: ten minute rule bill on medical cannabis, a debate on supported housing and the publication of a bill on the energy cap.

by oidptg
Oct. 9, 2017

Through fairly obscure means and made possible only by the support of the DUP, May's creeping despotism is set to skew Parliament's weak legislative scrutiny function even further.

by oidptg
Sept. 11, 2017

Parliament returns today after the long summer recess. While Parliament is sitting, we will be looking to highlight interesting items on the agenda.

by oidptg
Sept. 5, 2017

“Nowhere is more important to delivering another Labour government than Scotland,” commented Jeremy Corbyn ahead of embarking on his tour of marginal constituencies north of the border earlier this week.

by The Editors
Aug. 25, 2017

This episode serves as a timely reminder that having cemented the left of the Labour Party into the leadership, our work is far from over.

by Hayley Masi
Aug. 22, 2017

Even if Bernie Sanders in 2016 and Jeremy Corbyn in 2017 did not win their respective elections, they showed that democratic socialism is back as an electorally viable proposition.

by Dan Hind, W. Elliot Bulmer
Aug. 15, 2017

Ever since Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party, commentators have revelled in the idea that this left a vacant space in the political centre ground, waiting to be occupied by the right party.

by Tommy Hodgson
Aug. 8, 2017

After two years of internal battles and a hostile right-wing media, Corbyn’s team shifted the debate on some of the country’s biggest issues in a way many thought unimaginable.

by Maya Goodfellow
Aug. 6, 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

Earlier this week, Corbyn announced a second tranche of post-election appointments to the shadow front bench.

by oidptg
July 8, 2017

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.

by Charlotte Nichols
June 22, 2017

Earlier this week Corbyn quietly announced a reshuffle of his Shadow Cabinet.

by oidptg
June 18, 2017

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.

by The Editors
June 15, 2017

A hugely significant but largely unremarked upon aspect of last Thursday’s election result is the fact that the parliamentary left has grown.

by oidptg
June 14, 2017