Owen Jones: Momentum campaigning was crucial to Labour’s local election gains
Momentum’s campaigning was absolutely critical to the gains Labour made in the local elections of 2018. ‘Unseat’ days…
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I started as a LabourList columnist. So I may know more than most that with an election on…
Let’s line the streets for Tony Benn tomorrow
Back in November, I chaired an event with Tony Benn marking the publication of his last set of…
A Labour victory is not acceptable to the guardians of the free market fundamentalist order
The Daily Mail’s stomach-churning attack on Ed Miliband’s father – and him by association – is a warning.…
Labour will never credibly out-do the Tories on a “tough” approach on welfare
Long-term unemployment has exploded in the last 2 years: a gut-wrenching 146% increase. That’s not down to an…
This is a crisis for most – but it’s still boom time for those at the top
We’re almost at the mid-point of a national tragedy: a Tory Government during an economic crisis. On its…
The austerity consensus has collapsed
There is no alternative: the only way out of Britain’s current economic plight is massive cuts to public…
A new class politics
The recession has brought class inequality back into view by exposing the unjust distribution of wealth and power…
What David Miliband’s intervention really means
Those of us who have suggested David Miliband’s latest political intervention may have – let’s say – ulterior…
Socialism: it’s nothing personal
I’m almost feeling sorry for Fred the Shred. ‘Humbling of Mister Godwin’, mocked the Daily Mail; ‘Goodwin is…