The general thrust of the left’s reaction to the Tories since the hurried departure of David Cameron has been to focus upon the gap between Theresa May’s rhetorical flourishes concerning the problems faced by working class people and the brutal [...]
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It’s hard to believe now, but before the May 2015 general election the Labour Party had 190,000 members. This July, in just 48 hours, over 183,000 more parted with £25 to become registered supporters and vote in the leadership election, the [...]
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I am currently working in Sheffield. It’s not a city that I’ve spent much time in, so one morning this week I went for an early walk around the city centre. The first thing I came across, immediately outside my [...]
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Universal Basic Income (UBI) in its most common form is a proposal to issue a stipend at a set monetary value, provided unconditionally to every registered citizen, usually from an arbitrarily determined age. It has garnered support from a diverse [...]
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A civil war has erupted inside the Labour Party, initiated by the party’s minority right wing with the backing of the media. It is a battle between the ordinary labour party members and the anti-democrats in the Parliamentary Labour Party [...]
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It is hard to believe that it is possible for the far left to secrete a worse image of itself than it is at present. When we’re not having exposés in the papers of inept Trotskyists and cranks infesting the [...]
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The government’s prison reform programme has been gathering pace since Parliament returned in autumn 2015. In speeches to the Conservative party conference in October 2015, both David Cameron and Michael Gove called for a shift in thinking and policy to [...]
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The upcoming Left Unity conference will be the most important in the party’s short history. No fewer than half a dozen motions have been put recommending a complete turn away from standing in elections. The leadership itself is split between [...]
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RISE was formally launched on 29 August in Glasgow. ‘Scotland’s Left Alliance’ is the result of negotiations between the Scottish Left Project, comprising of many of the Radical Independence Campaign’s leading lights (also known as the International Socialist Group (Scotland), [...]
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The Independent Socialist Network welcomes Jeremy Corbyn’s remarkable victory in the election to become leader of the Labour Party. It is a victory to be celebrated by all socialists and all who want a fairer society. The size of Corbyn’s victory [...]
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