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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 The Young Fabians will be putting together podcasts from the Labour conference, which begins on Sunday. If you haven't already, check out the LabourList Conference Timetable. You can listen and download them…
By Salome Zourabichvili Back in the 1920s, Labour's leader Ramsay MacDonald spoke up against the Russian invasion of Georgia and the overthrow of its moderate social democratic government. Sadly, by the time he came to power MacDonald was…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Peter Kellner of YouGov has an important piece in the Fabian Review conference edition website today, which argues that Labour must begin seriously thinking about how it might respond to electoral defeat, a…
By Rebecca Hickman Self or other? This dilemma is at the heart of so much political decision-making and yet politicians continue to pretend that we can have it all - unfettered individualism and huge income disparities alongside good social…
By Alexandra Kemp Last October, armed with a placard I'd made bearing the legend, "The Fabian Women's Network supports Labour's pledge to End Child Poverty", I marched with the Child Poverty Action Group, Save the Children and hundreds of…
By Societarian As a wee nipper, this Societarian had a job as a paper delivery boy, and I will always recall how those customers who had the Guardian delivered from Monday-Saturday would rarely ask for the Observer on a Sunday, but instead…
From @LabourList UPDATE: Hopi Sen also has a brilliant interview with Jon Cruddas, in which he talks about the language of priorities. Jon Cruddas has given a fascinating interview to Mary Riddell for the summer edition of the Fabian Review…
By Laurie Penny / @PennyRed There are only so many ways round you can ask 'what does it mean to be of the Left in Britain today?' before you start to sound like Yoda in the small hours of a party conference booze-up. Nonetheless…
Sunder Katwala is the General Secretary of the Fabian Society. He met Alex Smith on Saturday, 20th June, 2009. AS: We're at the Fabian conference 6 months to Copenhagen. What's the purpose of this conference as you see it? SK: The job of…
By Tom Ogg The Fabian Society today held a one day conference looking ahead to the Copenhagen Summit in December, where a new climate change deal to replace the Kyoto Treaty will be discussed. The Secretary of State for climate change, Ed…
By Tom Ogg Compass conferences have always felt like a collective expression of exasperation with the Labour government, but this year, after the leadership and MPs' expenses crises, it was exasperation laced with fear of electoral defeat…
By Sunder Katwala It is a curious fact that so many of the all-time great British football managers have tended to be Labour. The great Bill Shankly's footballing philosophy was "The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each…
