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By Emma Burnell On Monday, I attended the Fabian Society hustings for the Labour leadership, and was pleased to ask the following question: "Are you a Socialist, and if so, what does that mean to you?". All the candidates answered the first…
By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk * At last night's Fabian debate, sponsored by LabourList, the candidates were asked if they were socialists. The Fabian blog recorded what they said. * The Fabians also recorded the opening statements of…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 As LabourList revealed last night, Ed Miliband is a candidate in the contest to become the next leader of the Labour Party. Today, speaking to the Fabian Society post-election conference in London, Miliband…
By Alex Smith On Saturday, the Fabians will hold the first major post-election conference, at the Brunei Gallery at SOAS in London. The conference will be taking place within days of the formation of a new government, and will be a big…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Alongise our joint offline debate watch event with the Young Fabians, London Young Labour and LGBT Labour tonight, during which we'll be leafleting and phone banking, you can also join LabourList, the New…
By Olly Deed Douglas Carswell is the Conseravtive MP for Harwich and Clacton and a blogger at Talk Carswell. He met Olly Deed in February, 2010. Criticism is part and parcel of being in government. Some of it is superficial, partisan and…
By Brian Duggan / @TheBrianDuggan As we move closer to election day and the polls begin to tighten one thing is increasingly clear. There is no substitute for good policy thinking. You can spend money on billboards, pollsters, glossy…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 The heads of Labour's three biggest independent pressure groups have written a joint letter to Gordon Brown, calling on him to act "decisively" to legislate for a referendum on electoral reform. The full text…
By Olly Deed Gordon Brown's speech to the Fabian Society on Saturday was widely reported as a pitch to the middle class voters of Britain. The speech feeds into the wider debate about whether Labour should revert to a core vote strategy or…
By Preth Rao Gordon Brown's opening keynote speech at the Fabian conference today was clearly an attempt to re-capture the centre ground, following weeks of "class war" political debates - also in a week in which John Denham, the…
By Adrian Prandle In a speech this lunchtime to kick off the celebrations of the Young Fabians' half century, Peter Mandelson gave a clear message to Labour activists of the fight needed in the months ahead. "We're going to fight, fight…
By Marie-Noelle Loewe The Fabians have always been the motor for progressive change in legislation and political culture, but we understand that our task never ends. At the age of 50, the Young Fabians have a lot to look back at and be…
