Part 1 Corbyn, Left Unity and Republican Socialism | We might start at the beginning. In 2013 I attended the founding conference of Left Unity debating the merits of different platforms. I spoke...
Labour's Historic Defeat in Scotland | You may remember the famous Monty Python sketch about a parrot returned by a dissatisfied customer, John Cleese, to the pet-shop run by Michael Palin. As...
Labour Left Alliance - social monarchism or republicanism? Republicanism in the Labour Party is the ‘dog that doesn’t bark’ argues Kenneth Morgan, with...
European Elections | Hardly a day goes by without the ‘Brexit revolution’ taking some new turn. The plot to overthrow May was slapped down when she called the conspirators to her Chequers country palace. Next day in parliament she ruled out ‘no deal’ and pulled the...
Anti-Unionism and Left Unity | The Tories, UKIP, the Democratic Unionists, the Liberal Democrats, and the Labour Party are all British Unionist parties. Last weekend Left Unity (LU) conference took a significant step forward. It became an Anti-Unionist party and thus...
Anti-Semitism | Really Palestine! Labour Shadow Educational Secretary, Lucy Powell claimed that Labour had a problem with anti-Semitism “otherwise we wouldn’t have spent the best part of the last six days talking about it”. (Channel 4 News) The Labour Right has indeed...
