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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
Jeremy Corbyn at a rally in Middlesbrough today
Features / 10 December 2019
10 December 2019
The stakes could not be higher – we know what another five years of the Tories means to this country, says CHELLEY RYAN
Features / 25 November 2019
25 November 2019
CHELLEY RYAN pleads with Leave voters not to forget the bigger picture at this election
Jeremy Corbyn on the campaign trail
Features / 4 November 2019
4 November 2019
Remainers need to leave the damaging Brexit debate now and become part of the mass-canvassing phenomenon, writes CHELLEY RYAN
Features / 28 June 2019
28 June 2019
A second referendum would tear our country apart all over again
Features / 28 April 2019
28 April 2019
Remain voter CHELLEY RYAN explores how angry and disillusioned Leave voters must be left feeling by Labour’s mixed messages on Brexit
Features / 13 March 2019
13 March 2019
Calm and logic are needed on the left amid a slew of anti-semitism allegations from the right and the anti-Labour media, says CHELLEY RYAN
Features / 19 December 2018
19 December 2018
Despite voting Remain, CHELLEY RYAN does not find any of the main arguments for a 'People's Vote' convincing, dealing with them one by one
Labour MP Ian Austin, who shouted
Features / 14 August 2018
14 August 2018
Anti-semitism must be strongly resisted, but some are using false claims to boost their own agenda, says CHELLEY RYAN
CLASS INTERESTS: Labour’s Chuka Umunna (left) and pro-EU c
Features / 22 February 2018
22 February 2018
If Remainers somehow manage to reverse the referendum result, they will have destroyed many Leave voters’ faith in democracy forever, argues CHELLEY RYAN