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Jon Cruddas has today argued, as part of his independent inquiry into Labour's election loss, that 'the Tories didn’t win despite austerity, they won because of it. Voters did not reject Labour because they saw it as austerity lite. Voters…
Cutting Trident will be the price of support in a hung parliament. That's the news reported from a meeting of the SNP, Plaid Cymru and Green leaders this week. With Labour's slim lead and the SNP and Green vote threatening to impact on its…
Labour is committed to achieving global nuclear disarmament. Or at least I hope it is. The party pointed two ways in 2010, when the manifesto read: 'we will maintain our independent nuclear deterrent' while also stating, 'we will fight for…
Huge hikes in energy charges, falling real wages, job losses, zero-hours contracts, lower benefits, people with disabilities denied the support they need and the spread of food banks across the country – the attack on living standards now…
Standing out at the People’s Assembly was the energy of new community campaigners opposing the impact of austerity on living standards and public services. From local hospital supporters, to anti-bedroom tax campaigners, single mothers…
Talk of 'tough decisions' and 'iron discipline' on spending demonstrate the dominance of Tory thinking over economic policy in Westminster, even as its effects cost them support in the polls. Labour needs to start thinking and acting for…
Nuclear weapons are a divisive issue. In fact, in the current debate over whether or not the UK should replace Trident, there is only one point of near-universal agreement: the decision must be made on national security grounds. Does…
As austerity maintains a grip over Europe, the left is desperately casting about for policies that will both win them support and drive forward economic growth. Surprisingly there has been no significant debate on the merits of a major…
It is difficult to imagine the impact of austerity in Greecefrom here in the UK. Aside from the stark imagery of pensioners eating from bins, students forced into prostitution and children being abandoned in increasing numbers, the…
Only hours after watching Ed Miliband on Channel 4 News say the Occupy camp at St Pauls 'reflected the concerns of millions', I was amazed to read Progress turn its fire on the same movement, condemning it as an 'unpalatable smorgasbord'…
By Ben Folley On Monday night Helen Goodman MP debated Blue Labour's leading thinker, Maurice Glasman, on Newsnight (which you can watch again here or read the transcript here). Whilst I thought Glasman failed to make a coherent case on the…
By Ben Folley / @benfolley As efforts to establish a ceasefire foundered in August 2006, over 100 Labour MPs demanded a recall of parliament to discuss the government's strategy regarding the Israeli attack on southern Lebanon. Whilst no…
