Anyone involved in the Labour movement can see first hand that the momentum of the Jeremy Corbyn campaign is continuing to transform our political environment. Many of us are still trying to get our heads round the new situation. Socialists like myself, or the Socialist Party who haven’t signed up continue to feel the magnetic…
Five arguments for joining Labour. Five arguments for staying outside Labour As thousands have joined the Labour Party since Corbyn’s stunning success in the leadership race, there are many thousands more who have yet to make up their mind. I’m one of them, and I thought I’d try and give the arguments for and against…
With Corbyn now leading the Labour Party, socialists, ant-capitalists, anti-austerity campaigners and environmental activists urgently need to answer the following questions 1 Is the Labour Party still just a bosses party? Over the last 25 years, more and more socialists have concluded that Labour is no different from the Tory Party. Given that…
David Milliband would be Labour leader and probably Prime Minister today, were it not for Tory Party members taking part in Labour’s 2010 leadership race, Facing Reality can exclusively reveal. Back in 2010, while no such thing as “registered supporter” existed in the Labour Party, individual members of trade unions affiliated to Labour could vote for the Party…
“Dear Jeremy Corbyn supporter “I’m sorry I couldn’t join you, but thank you so much for supporting Jeremy Corbyn and helping to demolish the myth of the inevitability of austerity and neo-liberalism. My plea to you all is “what are you going to do after the result is declared on September 12th?”. In fact, whatever happens,…
Whatever the results of the election, it was clear that in the aftermath Left Unity would need to sit down and work out where it wanted to go for the next few years and what kind of organisation it needs to become. In his letter to the Guardian that led to the creation of Left…
Last week, Unison members and others witnessed the bizarre spectacle of Brighton and Hove councillors declaring their love for all the communities of Brighton and Hove, before voting to slash services for all communities. To be fair, they were only following orders from Central Government… And to be fair, some wanted to cut some communities…
From the CWI website, February 2015 “We of the Socialist Party …………. condemn the recent postponement of the 2015 …….elections ……….. We hold that it completely begs the question for ….. to postpone the elections by six weeks on the basis of the ……….! We condemn the………. interfere in the electoral process. We view the empty…
Like many others, the wall to wall media coverage of the First World War led me to me hearing the stories of my Great Great Uncles’ deaths and injuries in the killing fields of the Western Front. However, I knew nothing about these men as I grew up. I do remember their sisters, one of…
Brighton & Hove council has been led by a minority Green Party administration since 2011. They were honest before their election that they wouldn’t set an illegal budget to resist austerity. Only two of their candidates signed the pledge against all cuts that we in the Brighton Stop The Cuts Coalition sent to all candidates.…
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