Review | The Starmer symptom
Pat Stack reviews Mark Perryman’s essay collection on Starmer’s betrayals and Labour’s deepening crisis
Your Party: Don’t fuck this up
rs21 steering group argues that the stakes are too high for Your Party to fail. Everyone who wants to see it succeed needs to act now
Your Party needs to bury Labourism
The new left party may be breaking with Labour, but it must also break from Labourism
After-party: Your Party Glasgow initial public meeting
How the first Your Party public event in Glasgow came together. A personal reflection on the process and what next.
Is this the end of Labour in Wales?
What are the forces behind Labour’s decline in Wales and how can new movements might shape it?
Red Friday – why workplace organising outdoes left union officials
The build-up to the 1926 General Strike highlights the dangers of a strategy based on left-wing union leaders.
The rocky road to power: notes on a new left
A new left party is on the cards. What strategy should the left pursue?
rs21 and the new left party
rs21 members discussed the potential new left party at an All Members Assembly
Birmingham bin strike: show your support against Labour’s austerity
The bin workers are standing up to Labour’s austerity policies – support this crucial strike.
Labour and immigration
Keir Starmer’s Labour seems inspired by Enoch Powell’s Rivers of Blood speech
As Reform grows, we urgently need a left electoral alternative
As two-party politics collapses and Reform UK rise, we need an alternative at the polls.
New left party: dead-end or dead right
Any new mass socialist formation must be rooted in class politics which understands its relation to oppression
Labour – war hawks
Trumpeting the military is a distraction from Labour’s policies to deepen oppression and exploitation.
Be concerned – Reform is coming
We have some catching up to do. On building new coalitions and mass socialist politics.
Is this the end of austerity? Making sense of Britain under Labour
Can Starmer and Reeves deliver lasting change—or will their plans flop under scrutiny?
Labour’s budget – no end to increasing inequality
Social services gutted, green transition neglected, public money funnelled to private business.
With the benefit of hindsight: ‘Scottish Independence and the British state ten years on’
Ten years on from the Scottish independence referendum – a report of a Conter conference held on 14 September 2024
Rachel Reeves and the ‘maxed out credit card’
Kate Deer takes a critical look at the new government’s claims that Britain has ‘maxed out its credit card’.
Election – threats from the right, big new chances for the left
Colin Wilson provides an analysis of the election, including the unreported detail of successes for a new kind of left
Review | The Vote
Danny Bee reviews Paul Foot’s ‘The Vote’ – how it was won and how it’s undermined.
Making Gaza the issue in the general election
Jonny Jones argues for making Gaza a central issue in the general election as part of starting to build a serious opposition to Starmer’s Labour.
Dover’s dodgy defector
Keir Starmer’s acceptance of hard-right Natalie Elphicke into the Labour party has shocked and dismayed many. East Kent resident Danny Bee explains why he’s not happy at having her as his Labour MP.
Kick out the Tories, prepare to fight Starmer
Colin Wilson analyses the 2 May council and mayoral elections in England.
Resist Sunak’s demonisation of disabled people
An analysis of how new governmental measures continue to demonise and punish disabled people.
Climate failure sparks SNP crisis
Pete Cannell looks at how the gulf between the SNP’s rhetoric and climate policies that relied on partnership with the oil and gas industry sparked a crisis.
The Tories’ pro-natalism agenda
Colin Wilson unpacks the right-wing agendas behind the new Tory childcare policy.