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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This is the first in a series of articles that The Project will carry debating issues around the EU referendum. Here, Dave Landau and Will McMahon set out the case for an active abstention. What should socialists be saying about the European [...]
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It is not a good time to be sick, disabled, young, low paid or a single parent in Britain. The new Tory government wasted no time in utilising its shock election win and the mandate they achieved for severe cuts [...]
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Europe. The very word conjures up pictures of unelected bureaucrats and no-mark politicians sitting in a distant parliament passing laws on how much a banana can bend and imposing dodgy things like human rights on us. The European Union (EU) [...]
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The partitioning of vulnerable people into the deserving and underserving poor is a reflex of capitalism that salves society’s conscience. Various strands of these moral judgements have raged for generations, but since the coalition began their campaign, the demonisation of [...]
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A week into the general elections with the none event head-to-head between Cameron and Miliband and the seven-way tag debate over, the whole thing was in full swing. Everybody agrees that the minor parties benefitted. My sister says she thought their [...]
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