Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Not the right stuff: Starmer’s pyrrhic victory
The Labour leader has backed himself and his allies into a corner with their commitment to scapegoating progressive politics — but going to the right won’t work for long if Labour is elected as an alternative to the Tories, argues JOE GILL
STARMER, ARE YOU LISTENING? NEU, TUC, PCS and UCU protest in Birmingham city centre, on February 2023, to protest against plans for a new law on minimum service levels during strikes
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
EACH day brings fresh evidence that Keir Starmer is shifting the Labour Party rightwards in his effort to create a “patriotic,” pro-business, pro-Nato party in which members have little or no say on policy.
Starmer was supposedly elected on a platform of “continuity Corbyn,” promising to maintain the former leader’s platform of popular policies that won an unprecedented 10 per cent vote swing to Labour in 2017 after the party saw its vote decline in successive elections since 2001.
However, following the snap essentially single-issue Brexit election of 2019, the Jeremy Corbyn project of returning the party to its democratic socialist roots reached a dead end, and the party’s traditional parliamentary and bureaucratic elite seized back control.
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