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Class War in the British Labour Party: Tories, Blairites Turn the Screws on Jeremy Corbyn
Article
2016
Ever since Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the British Labour Party last September, the party has been in a state of internal class warfare. Corbyn is a decades-long member of old Labour’s left wi...
Corbyn's Labour Party is Being Made to Fail - By Design
Cook, Jonathan
Article
2018
The embattled Labour party is reportedly soon to adopt the four additional working "examples" of anti-semitism drafted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). The full adoption of ...
The Crisis in Corbyn's Labour Party is Over Israel, Not Anti-Semitism
Cook, Jonathan
Article
2018
If there is indeed an anti-semitism problem in the UK's Labour party, it is not in the places where the British corporate media have been directing our attention. What can be said with even more certa...
The elites hate Momentum and the Corbynites - and I'll tell you why : The movement that backed the Labour leader challenges MPs and journalists alike - because it's about grassroots democracy
Graeber, David
Article
2016
As the rolling catastrophe of what's already being called the "chicken coup" against the Labour leadership winds down, pretty much all the commentary has focused on the personal qualities, real or ima...
How Labour's Campaigns Attempted to Make the Political Personal
Akehurst, Nathan
Article
2018
The basic techniques of convincing people on the doorstep are not different to those of convincing friends or workmates. However, election canvassers have typically gone door-to-door telling voters wh...
Inside Corbyn's Office: An interview with Matt Zarb-Cousin
Shanly, Max
Article
2017
Jeremy Corbyn’s former press officer on sabotage within the British Labour party, his relationship to the media, and how Labour can close the polling gap.
Left reformism, the state and the problem of socialist politics today
Blackledge, Paul
Article
2017
The recent calls for the British left either to “reclaim Labour” (Len McCluskey) or to build a new party capable of emulating Syriza’s successes in Greece (Ken Loach) demand serious consideration on t...
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 11, 2017: Left Parties
Diemer, Ulli (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
2017
In recent years, there have been repeated attempts to build left political parties and coalitions, i.e. parties to the left of the established social democratic parties which have long become part of ...
A search for roots and connections
Wainwright, Hilary
Article
2018
The post-third-way Labour Party is trying to encourage its many new activist members, especially among the young, to turn the party into a social movement.
The Socialist Register 1964: Volume 1: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (ed.s)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1964
The Socialist Register 1966: Volume 3: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1966
The Socialist Register 1968: Volume 5: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1968
The Socialist Register 1980: Volume 17: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Miliband, Ralph; Saville, John (eds.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1980
Socialist Register 1996: Volume 32: Are There Alternatives?
Panitch, Leo (ed.)
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1996

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Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, and Contempt for Democracy
Introduction to the July 2, 2016 issue of Other Voices
Diemer, Ulli
2016
A constant theme in elite reaction to the Brexit referendum, expressed especially through the mainstream media, has been a visceral contempt for democracy. Ordinary working people are portrayed as stu...
Left parties
Introduction to the November 11, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Diemer, Ulli
2017
"There is no alternative." That is capitalism's message in the neo-liberal era. The rich keep getting richer and richer, millions of people are unemployed, millions more are trying to survive on preca...