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Chelley Ryan
Jeremy Corbyn MP joins demonstrators outside the Royal Courts of Justice, central London, May 13, 2025
Opinion / 5 July 2025
5 July 2025

While Reform poses as a workers’ party, a credible left alternative rooted in working-class communities would expose their sham — and Corbyn’s stature will be crucial to its appeal, argues CHELLEY RYAN

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn joins a coalition of camp
Features / 1 February 2024
1 February 2024
CHELLEY RYAN asks whether a single-issue peace party is needed to confront Britain's addiction to military aggression
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair and Labour leader Keir Star
Opinion / 6 January 2024
6 January 2024
With right-wing Labour all but guaranteed to win the next general election, we need to turn apathy into anger, argues CHELLEY RYAN
Mayor of North of Tyne, Jamie Driscoll
Opinion / 20 July 2023
20 July 2023
The current consensual party politics is ripe for smashing, but how can we go about it? CHELLEY RYAN has some ideas
Features / 10 June 2023
10 June 2023
Despite the defeat of Corbynism, we now know more clearly than we have in decades how popular left-wing policies are if put to the public — and that’s all thanks to Corbyn’s bravery, writes CHELLEY RYAN
Features / 3 April 2023
3 April 2023
Corbyn’s leadership destroyed the cosy Establishment consensus that austerity was necessary and there’s greater class consciousness than there has been for decades. These are good reasons why the left should not give up, writes CHELLEY RYAN
BLOODIED BUT UNBOWED: Jeremy Corbyn joins protesters outside
Opinion / 25 March 2022
25 March 2022
CHELLEY RYAN looks at the conundrums facing the left inside and outside the Starmerite party
Features / 10 January 2022
10 January 2022
After the damage Starmer has done, the left would need decades to rebuild from within the party – and we don’t have decades. The crises facing working people are already urgent, argues CHELLEY RYAN
Opinion / 18 May 2021
18 May 2021
In an open letter to the Socialist Campaign Group CHELLEY RYAN asks that the movement respect those now quitting their Labour Party membership
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn speaking at a Momentum event at
Features / 3 April 2020
3 April 2020
Labour gained 3.5 million new votes in 2017 and won the biggest swing in vote share since 1945. Jeremy Corbyn's policies are the reason why — we must never forget this fact, or abandon the cause of socialism, writes CHELLEY RYAN
Labour leadership candidate Sir Keir Starmer addressing a Pe
Features / 24 January 2020
24 January 2020
Too many members are engaged in a collective effort to deny the devastating effect of framing ourselves as a Remain party, says CHELLEY RYAN
INSURGENT: How did a lifelong political subversive like Corb
Features / 6 January 2020
6 January 2020
Somehow Johnson did a better job of framing himself as anti-Establishment than Corbyn — CHELLEY RYAN explains how