Local elections 2013: the councils Labour should watch
This Thursday will see local elections in all 27 English counties, eight unitary authorities and one Welsh authority.…
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How does community organising work in a “key seat”?
By Mike Buckley and Jack Madden Labour is rightly looking for ways to reach beyond its traditional heartlands.…
Milliband seeks to turn the tables on Cameron
One of the most common refrain’s that Ed miliband had had to put up with during his time…
A genuinely radical Labour Party would adore the state far less
Judging by the broad, if sometimes shaky, support Ed Miliband enjoys from the Labour left, there is a…
The Stephen Lawrence legacy
I first met Doreen and Neville Lawrence at a fundraising concert at the Waterman’s Art Centre in West…
The next watershed election
Tired? I am. The relentlessness of life, in a persistently sluggish economy – yet at a time of…
The Tories have failed to cut the housing benefit bill – Labour should commit to doing so
As Liam Byrne has pointed out, we need to build more houses. It would be fair to say…
This is why we joined the Labour Party
And in all the process and organisation and logistics and planning, let’s not forget it. When Dilara Begum…
We can’t wait for the Tories to lose the election
The Tories are having a good week. Well not really, but they are having a better week than…
On Len McCluskey, Ed Miliband and the “Blairites”
Len McCluskey’s interview with the New Statesman has received plenty of interest in the last 24 hours. Although…
