
Transmissions.
Dispatches from the struggle.
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Kisaan Andolan and the Neoliberal Food Economy
The Farmers' Movement of India's North Western states should be understood not only as resisting Modi's Black Laws but as a challenge to a much longer history of imperialism and oppressive social relations.
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A Bad Week for Starmer, or worse?
The big "sell" of Starmer during his leadership campaign was competence. We aren't seeing much.
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The Vision Thing
We are beginning to see murmurs of disquiet from liberal commentators for whom Starmer not being Corbyn is no longer enough. How should we understand Starmer's lack of vision?
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UCU Must Strongly Resist Job Losses and Restructuring - Now
UCU cannot wait until the crisis in universities hits permanent members on secure contracts - the time for action is now.
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Is Britain a Chumocracy?
Data on political donations from the Electoral Commission shows that money in politics is much more a question of the exercise of class power of capitalists rather than direct corruption.
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Statement Calling for an immediate Stay on Housing Possession Proceedings
Courts are not Covid secure and any tenant losing their home will face an even greater range of difficulties under current conditions. There should be a stay in housing possession proceedings.
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Pandemic Ethics: Eight Theses
What are the basic ethical and analytical principles that can structure our understanding of and response to the pandemic crisis?
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On the Finucane family's Struggle for Justice and the Collusion of the British State
The Government's refusal of a public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane is part of a cover up state collusion and an attempt to continue to obfuscate the political nature of the conflict in Ireland.
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The Rise of Solidarity Funds in London and Beyond
Recent months have seen the development of solidarity funds aiming to redistribute wealth locally and build the connections necessary for stronger community movements.
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A Statement from a Member of Chipping Barnet CLP
Even motions in compliance with the restrictions imposed on democratic discussion by Labour's General Secretary appear to be leading to suspensions.
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Serve the People? Some questions on tenants' union consciousness.
In the first of three pieces, Tom Gann and josie sparrow reflect on some of the possibilities and limits of tenants' organising.
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The View from the Sidelines: How the Left Can Adapt to Starmer’s Leadership
Corbyn's policies do remain popular with Labour members, but without the left building our influence independent of the leadership this is politically irrelevant.
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The mood was one of dejection: English Language Teachers in the Pandemic
The pandemic may have dealt a decisive blow to an already irrational and often oppressive industry, but the sense of solidarity developed between English Language Teachers may outlive that collapse.
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Continuity Miliband: Labour's Green Economic Recovery
Labour's Green Economic Recovery is a huge retreat in terms of ambition and understanding of how to decarbonise the economy particularly when it comes to public ownership.
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Asylum for conscientious objectors to Israeli apartheid?
Further Israeli annexations have led many to conclude the state is governed by an apartheid regime. Does this mean those who refuse to serve in the Israeli army could be able to claim asylum?
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Singing When Times Darken
Art has always flourished against the odds—but it shouldn't have to. Gaps in Government support for working class artists present an opportunity to rethink culture from new principles.
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‘A Hell for Women’
As waves of direct action erupt across Poland in response to the latest crackdown on reproductive rights, new networks of trans-national solidarity are developing.
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Which Side are You On?
High profile figures on the left claiming that Corbyn's response to the EHRC report was 'unwise' betray a poor understanding of the duties of comradeship.
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On the Chilean Constitutional Referendum
The result of Chile's referendum represents an overwhelming victory of the popular classes, but ultimately the direction of the country will be decided outside parliamentary and constitutional processes.
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Statement on co-ordinated attacks on abolitionists in schools
Yesterday saw extensive and co-ordinated bad faith attacks on No More Exclusions in an attempt to undermine their work and abolitionist arguments in education.
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Coventry and the Dark Side of the City of Culture
Whilst the City of Culture scheme can build civic pride by celebrating non-metropolitan places, in Coventry it is contributing to the risk of losing what makes it unique.
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The 10 Crumbling Commandments of Welsh Labour’s Common-sense Unionism
Previously hegemonic ideas about Labour and the British state are crumbling in Wales, resulting in significant support for independence but the Labour Party are largely proving inadequate to this shift.
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Is there Power in a Tenants' Union?: A Reply to Nick Bano
It is necessary to explore criticisms of tenants' unions but their capacity to act and have effects may be more extensive than these critiques allow.
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Statement in Support of Migrants Organise
A statement of solidarity from legal workers specialising in immigration law.
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Labour Should Refuse Large Private Donations
A Labour Party funded by ordinary people whether as members or through trade unions is a democratic necessity.
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Statement on Department for Education Guidance on PSHE
The DfE’s recent categorisation of organisations as part of PSHE guidance is extreme Conservative authoritarianism, a censorship of political education, and racial gaslighting.
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Starmer-Ainsleyism: The Methodology behind Starmer's Week
Starmer's Director of Policy Claire Ainsley has a methodology which precisely links political communications and policy making. Understanding Starmer's strategy requires that we understand this.
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Heil Churchill: on Nazi Salutes at the Cenotaph
Many guffawed and the combination of Nazi salutes and defence of the Churchill statue but in fact the symbolism is a coherent condensation of a white supremacist worldview.
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“We can’t do this work on our own”: an interview with Roger McKenzie
We spoke to Roger about his experiences as a Black man within the labour movement, his Unison General Secretary candidature, and how best to organise for socialism and workers' control.
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Labour Members aren't the Problem.
A spate of recent interventions aimed at Labour members risks deflecting attention from the rightward shift of the Parliamentary party.
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Critical support for renters unions
It's a positive step for the left to take housing struggles seriously as a site of political activity. But is a union-style dues-paying-membership organisation an effective model in the current housing context?
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On "Black Antisemitism" and Antiracist Solidarity
Recent stories have seen attempts to “ethnicise” antisemitism, but the discourses and violence that make up the long history of antisemitism are far more organic to the cultures of white, Christian Europe.
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Centrism for a Sceptical Age
Ed Miliband is a serious, thoughtful, intellectually curious ideologue of the Labour centre and understanding this should shape socialist tactics and strategy.
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Proposal for a Momentum Media Fund
We need socialist media, and part of the refounding of Momentum should be establishing a media fund to support and develop it.
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United Voices of the World shows how trade unions can beat back racist outsourcing
United Voices of the World shows how trade unions can beat back racist outsourcing
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Why we Must Reject the UCEA Offer
UCU members should vote to reject the offer from the Universities and Colleges Employers Association to keep the current dispute live and build solidarity.
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The Politics of Grievance in the Polish Presidential Election
As Poland prepares to elect a new President, how should we understand the social context that has led to the rise of the right?
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To a Comrade: Ted Knight, the Labour Left and Local Government
How can Ted Knight's strategic proposition of rooted Labour Party units working in tandem with local communities & workers to challenge the capitalist order inform our strategies today?
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We Cannot Pause in a Pandemic — Response to Rocha and Marris
Casualised members are a source of strength and not weakness: we won't settle for a 'foot in the door'.
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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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Protect migrants, protect workers: close detention centres now.
Workers must demand nothing less than release of all immigration detainees and closure of immigration removal centres.
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Rent Strike—now? A legal and political analysis.
Now is the best time for organising rent strikes in England & Wales since at least the 1980s—but many discussions have been ideologically hollow and strategically underthought.
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Now is the time for hope—it's the bosses who should be scared.
Outsourced BAME and migrant workers at SGUL are preparing to launch a landmark legal action against their employers. Here, they tell us why we should all support them.
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