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With little time to prepare a manifesto, Labour’s election campaign is in desperate need of flagship policies that can capture the public imagination. The Fabian Society is publishing a series of policy proposals to support the party’s…
In the wake of last week’s US intervention in Syria the European left needs to decide how to respond to president Trump and the erratic, nationalist foreign policy he has brought to the White House. The answer cannot be to disengage. The US…
In 1997, Labour declared itself the party of the countryside. It wasn’t empirically true, but it wasn’t entirely implausible. 20 years on, Labour is a party of inner cities that hardly reaches the suburbs. With the loss of the Copeland…
It's difficult for progressives not to despair at the current state of the world. A hard Brexit is in the offing. Trump is now firmly ensconced in the White House and wreaking global havoc. And far right politics continue to proliferate on…
The progressive alliance is just a "marriage of convenience" and not a real solution, warned Stella Creasy today. She warned that the alliance with parties such as the SNP and Greens would require us to undermine our principles and not…
Jeremy Corbyn today mounted a vigorous defence of his campaigning focus on the NHS when he warned it is in a "danger zone". The Labour leader hit back at suggestions he was occupying a left-wing comfort zone and pledged a Labour government…
Jeremy Corbyn today turned his fire on the big banks, energy companies and rail operators as he set out how he would reform Britain's "rigged" economic system. He attacked an elite which he said had "rigged the rules" and vowed to restore…
This is the full text of the keynote speech delivered by Jeremy Corbyn at the Fabian's new year conference Firstly may I wish you all a Happy New Year. It’s a year in which the shadow of the last will loom large. In a week’s time the…
Last week I published a deeply depressing Fabian Society report, which suggested that Labour was ‘stuck’ and ‘too weak to win’. On LabourList I wrote that an uneasy calm had overcome the party: "the calm of stalemate, of insignificance – or…
Jeremy Corbyn will tomorrow begin to flesh out his anti-establishment vision when he attacks an elite which "stitched up" the political system and issues a vow to nationalise failing private care homes. Corbyn is due to deliver an intense…
Jeremy Corbyn will tomorrow address the Fabian Society's new year conference in London. He is expected to say: Last year’s global political earthquake didn’t just come out of the blue. There are many of us who had felt the tremors growing…
Jeremy Corbyn will attempt to move on from a difficult week when he joins a stellar line-up to deliver a major speech at the Fabian Society's new year conference this weekend. The Labour leader, who has been criticised over the last two…
