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Billy Anania is an art critic, editor, and journalist in New York City.
The Murdoch press has started its attacks on Rebecca Long Bailey and her Salford ‘mafia’. It’s not hard to figure out why – Salford is a proud and radical working-class community that points the way forward for the Labour Left in 2020.
Labour’s transformative policies had huge popular appeal – but without a credible promise to change how politics works, too few people believed we could deliver them, argues Jon Trickett.
Labour must rebuild trust among working-class people in all parts of the country – but abandoning its transformational policies would be a mistake, argues Richard Burgon.
Margaret Thatcher described Right to Buy as ‘one of the most important revolutions of the century.’ She was right. And we’re still living with the consequences.
Labour has long been a coalition between Bethnal Green and Bolsover – it’s vital that attempts to regain lost ground in the North and Midlands don’t come at the expense of black and brown working-class people.
Why are strikes called “strikes”? The answer goes back 250 years, to the birth-pangs of the working class.
Labour’s decision to embrace a second referendum was a fatal blow – convincing its heartland voters that the party had turned its back on them and denying it the chance to speak across the culture war divide.
A reader writes a tribute to the career of Dennis Skinner, firebrand socialist MP, who lost his seat of 49 years in this week’s election.
In 2017, Labour’s victory in Crewe seemed to be a sign of renewal in one of its former strongholds. 2019’s result shows that the party’s problems in towns like this run much deeper – and won’t be solved easily.
A reader writes a tribute to the career of Dennis Skinner, firebrand socialist MP, who lost his seat of 49 years in this week’s election.
This is not the time to abandon the socialist policies that would most improve lives in the very areas Labour lost. Instead, the task is to build a more effective movement that can win them.
Labour lost this election not because it was too much of a working-class party, but because it was too little of one in too many places. Our cause endures – but now is the time to steel ourselves for the next fight.
Former presidents, ministers, members of parliament, trade unionists, and political leaders from four continents sign an open letter explaining why the world needs a Labour government.
96-year-old Walter Nixon made national headlines recently when he returned to the Italian battlefields where he defeated the Nazis in the 1940s. He has a message for voters tomorrow: vote Labour.
The same right-wing media which derided young people only a few years for political apathy is now mocking them for being politically engaged. The reason is simple: they are afraid.
Jo Swinson’s record in politics shows her feminism is the kind that might benefit a corporate CEO – but won’t challenge the injustices faced by millions of working-class women in Britain today.
Despite the media hype, this election in Northern Ireland will not transcend orange and green politics to focus on Brexit – instead, it will be where the debate on the national question intensifies.
If Labour wins this week’s general election, it will lead a democratic revolution in British politics – clamping down on corporate lobbying and transferring real decision-making out of London.
In Scotland, little by little, working-class people who were lost to the Labour Party during years of neoliberalism and then the independence campaign are returning home.
The huge crowds of activists turned out by Manchester Momentum across the North West during this campaign is testament to their efforts to build a popular social base.