Apart from a bright spark of hope in the victory of the Gaza motion, this year’s conference lacked vision and purpose — we need to urgently reconnect Labour with its roots rather than weakly aping the flag-waving right, argues KIM JOHNSON MP
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How great would Great British Energy be?
Would Starmer’s planned energy firm be a state-owned, cost-cutting, green energy giant that shows Labour is looking to the future with its core values intact? Or would it be a single windmill and a drab kiosk, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
Party leader Sir Keir Starmer making his keynote address during the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool. Picture date: Tuesday September 27, 2022.
In the face of funding cuts, closures and a shift into women’s centres providing criminal justice-only services rather than a holistic approach, RUTH HUNT urges women to protect existing resources, volunteer and build new networks of support
The CPB's congress aims to build the united front against monopoly capitalism, utilising the YCL’s promising new generation of militants — but our party remains far from the strength history requires of it, despite recent progress, writes JOHNNIE HUNTER
From Palestine, to racism, to fiscal rules and migrant rights, DIANE ABBOTT surveys some of the main themes of Labour conference this week
We must remember how the CPGB led anti-fascist movement defeated Mosley’s BUF in September 1936 and apply the lessons of mass mobilisation and open, unapologetic confrontation to the rise of the far right today, writes DYLAN MURPHY
On the anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, DAVID ROSENBERG reflects on his encounters with those who were there that day in 1936 – and suggests two urgent tasks for the anti-fascists of today
KEIR STARMER’S Great British Energy announcement, a proposed energy firm that will be a “partnership” between the government and private business, is part of a slight leftwards lean.
Partly this is because now the “moderates” fully control the party they don’t just see abandoning public ownership as part of their primary mission — which was unseating the left.
In charge, they can let their hair down and promise voters something. But in part it is also because the left kept pushing on the idea of publicly owned energy to address the crisis. The left kept the idea alive and as the right has few ideas, its has adopted this one.
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