How can we better regulate digital platform capitalism to protect workers?
There are now 70 million people around the world who find work through digital platforms. In the UK,…
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When markets fail, we bail them out or take ownership. But there’s another way
In Marx’s seminal work Wages and Capital, he describes the economic relationship between the capitalist (owner of productive capital)…
Chuka Umunna once attacked Tory austerity and Lib Dem complicity. What happened?
Speaking to the crowds at Labour’s 2012 party conference, Chuka Umunna talked about “an irresponsible experiment with people’s…
Labour selects Lisa Forbes to replace Fiona Onasanya in Peterborough
Labour members in Peterborough, whose MP Fiona Onasanya is in jail after being found guilty of lying to…
Labour deserters represent the few, not the many
It’s the early hours of Friday 9th June 2017. At Stockport Town Hall, Ann Coffey is momentarily lost…
Does the new Independent Group really have a future as a new party?
Westminster is still fixated on The Independent Group: who will be next to join, could it succeed as…
Civic socialism in East London: a radical approach to local government
Across Europe, authoritarian forces are on the move. Here, the government drifts towards a no-deal Brexit as poverty…
Wishing for a world without identity politics is wishing for one that never existed
The standard story about identity politics is that when new social movements burst onto the scene in the…
How community organising can strengthen the work of an elected representative
Albert Einstein once professed: “If I had an hour to solve a problem, I’d spend fifty-five minutes thinking…
What belonging to a broad church Labour Party means to me
During my recent attempts to be elected to Labour’s national executive committee, I spoke a lot about maintaining…
