Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Labour Together without the class struggle?
NICK WRIGHT finds some sensible thinking in the newly released ‘plan for national reconstruction’ – but a failure to look squarely at the reality of private ownership and how it distorts society renders the project impotent
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
MUCH of Westminster Labour found an electoral victory with Jeremy Corbyn as leader a more unnerving prospect than defeat.
From within the Westminster bubble Labour’s meteoritic rise in the weeks before polling day in 2017 challenged the collective sense of self and the foundations of their political thought.
The strategic assumptions which all Labour’s Establishment tendencies shared — the notion that the middle ground in politics is critical, that undecided voters in swing constituencies are the target demographic — were subverted by the runaway success of Labour’s radical manifesto proposals which reached parts of the electorate barely touched by electoral politics.
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