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The Socialist Campaign Group has launched a new pamphlet titled "Winning the Future: socialist responses to the coronavirus crisis" proposing "bold, practical solutions" to the pandemic. The document published on Sunday includes articles…
The third reading of the covert human intelligence sources (criminal conduct) bill divided the Labour left in parliament yesterday. 34 Labour MPs, plus suspended Claudia Webbe, defied the whip on the controversial government-proposed…
34 Labour MPs including seven opposition frontbenchers have broken the party whip today by voting against the covert human intelligence sources (criminal conduct) bill at third reading in the House of Commons. The government-proposed…
Since the announcement of the Centre Left Grassroots Alliance (CLGA) slate for the national executive committee (NEC) elections, the Labour left has been locked in an argument over unity, accountability and political red lines. The source…
Keir Starmer has rejected the request made by Labour MPs on the party's left to reinstate sacked shadow cabinet member Rebecca Long-Bailey after a meeting this morning. In a video conference call with members of the Socialist Campaign…
Cautious? Risk-averse? More concerned with keeping the peace than asserting authority? Nobody can accuse the new leader of those things now. Keir Starmer sacked Rebecca Long-Bailey from the shadow cabinet yesterday. The most prominent…
Though we are still recovering from a heart-breaking election defeat, adjusting to the new leadership, plus facing serious risks to our society from the Covid-19 crisis, we are nevertheless entering a new era for socialist politics and…
17 Labour MPs – including former leader Jeremy Corbyn – have described the Prime Minister's statement on lifting coronavirus restrictions as a "thinly veiled declaration of class war". The fresh statement, issued in response to the Covid-19…
Labour left groups have spoken out to defy the party's position on the Kashmiri conflict, as set out by Keir Starmer last week after he met with the executive team of Labour Friends of India. The Socialist Campaign Group, made up of MPs on…
For two years, I’ve co-chaired the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs after re-forming it with Richard Burgon in May 2018. This week I stand down as co-chair, but I'm proud of the group that we rebuilt together. When Tony Blair resigned…
With its horrific death toll, the coronavirus pandemic is the greatest crisis most of us have ever lived through. The absolute priority for our party is to force the government into taking every action needed to save lives. There are…
For three decades, I’ve been involved in organising the left in and around the Labour Party. For barely three of those years, the Labour left has been in some kind of ascendancy. The explosion of socialist ideas and movement-building that…
