Westminster.
All of the articles we have published under the tag Westminster, beginning with the most recent.
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Editorial: The Sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey
The sacking of Long-Bailey requires a drawing of a firm line. Socialist Campaign Group members on Labour's front bench should resign.
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Neither Holborn & St Pancras nor Ashton-under-Lyne but independent socialism
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.
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Editorial: Chris Williamson
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.
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A Curse On Both Your Brexits
Both the Conservative and Labour Party have found themselves divided over Brexit, but calls for a People's Vote, or 'Lexit', are inadequate responses to an insurgent nationalism.
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From Revolting Housewives to Big Problems: Women, Class and Politics
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.
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Questions for Centrists
To get further than vapid statements about ‘change’ and ‘politics being broken’, centrists must ask themselves some fundamental questions about beliefs and strategy.
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Good Riddance
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.
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Do we really need a StateBook?
Corbyn’s digital speech is a good start, but we should look to redecentralise the web rather than build new social media monopolies.
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Richard Burgon on Arise Festival, Trump and Stephen Yaxley-Lennon
An interview with Richard Burgon MP: 'We need to be ready for a general election whenever it comes'
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This Government Must Stop Separating Families
The US government is not the only government separating migrant families - the UK government is also complicit in this, and it must end
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When we go into government, we all go into government together
We have the potential to rewrite history if we understand the magnitude of the situation we find ourselves in.
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A House of Lords of the left? Corbynism and parliamentary reform
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?
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'Old White Men?' Labour and the Question of Representation
Left-wing women have long struggled to feel fully represented in parliamentary politics.
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Social Murder, Productivity Crisis & Irresponsible Technology Policy: The 2017 Budget
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.
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This Week in Parliament: Medical Cannabis, Supported Housing, Energy Cap
Looking ahead to the coming week in Parliament: a ten minute rule bill on medical cannabis, a debate on supported housing and the publication of a bill on the energy cap.
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This week in Parliament: Theresa May's creeping despotism
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.
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This Week in Parliament: Blacklisting and the Old Right's Venezuelan Concern
Parliament returns today after the long summer recess. While Parliament is sitting, we will be looking to highlight interesting items on the agenda.
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Interview with Danielle Rowley MP
“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.
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The Champion Problem
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.
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Democratic Socialism: Why the Left should demand a new Constitution
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.
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The Myth of “Decent Tories”
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.
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Labour & Immigration
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.
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Labour Party Conference: Call for Contributions
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.
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Reshuffle 2: The Maintenance of the Malcontents
Earlier this week, Corbyn announced a second tranche of post-election appointments to the shadow front bench.
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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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Notes on the Reshuffle
Earlier this week Corbyn quietly announced a reshuffle of his Shadow Cabinet.
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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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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.