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It’s Your Party What does it mean for Starmer’s Labour? And can it achieve its goals?

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It’s Your Party

What does it mean for Starmer’s Labour?

And can it achieve its goals?

Sultana Plan A new left party in Britain?

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I have surveyed the response across the left to Zarah Sultana’s announcement that she is leaving Labour to co-lead the creation of a new party with Jeremy Corbyn.

Link in comments.

Sultana Plan A new left party in Britain?

Good analysis of the ways different sections of the Left are responding to the announcement of a new party by Sultana by
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YouTube video by Turn Left Zack Polanski Makes His Leadership Pitch | Full Interview

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Zack Polanski on whether unions will stick with Labour or back the Greens, speaking to @curtisdaly.bsky.social of @turnleftmedia.co.uk

Zack Polanski on Labour’s next leader, speaking to @curtisdaly.bsky.social of @turnleftmedia.co.uk

Stay in Labour and fight or join the Greens and #backZack?

In an interview with @curtisdaly.bsky.social on @turnleftmedia.co.uk Green Party leadership candidate Zack Polanski commented on John McDonnell, who this week called for a Labour leadership challenge to Keir Starmer:

That’s your voter base.

New on ‘Road Bloc’:

Zack to the future

Are we all Polanski-ites now?

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Learning from Lenin Why we need his Erfurtianism today

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On ‘Road Bloc’:

Learning from Lenin

Why we need his Erfurtianism today

Rebranding the revolution Can we use different labels yet keep the same programme?

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New on ‘Road Bloc’:

Rebranding the revolution

Can we use different labels yet keep the same programme?

I have a letter in this week’s @socialistworker.bsky.social

It responds to an article on electoral strategy by @tomashtengely.bsky.social

I agree with Tomáš & the SWP, a “broad-based, pluralist umbrella” is needed to intervene in elections.

Next step: a delegate conference of left organisations.

As I argue here:

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Good bit on the Socialist Alliance:

“At the start, the idea of a genuine left-wing unity pulled in hundreds of activists who had been distanced from the left. That initial energy was not sustained – but the start at least was encouraging.”

We can do this again - and sustain it!

Good to see @climatevanguard.bsky.social taking part in this discussion on the party question.

Les P Litts reports from the We Demand Change summit and ponders what should be the next steps for the left in Britain?

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💷 Meet the Billionaire 💷

This is Michael Platt, the richest man in the UK.

Wouldn't it be good free up that cash to do something useful?

#greenparty #billionaires #politics #taxwealthnotwork

Nice to read short pieces from @tuscoalition.bsky.social candidates here:

Good point here about how the We Demand Change summit united trade unionists and campaigners who support different parties (or none) and that future summits must do the same.

I think what’s needed is a separate delegate conference of left groups to form an electoral alliance…

This was a good intervention from the floor at the ‘party time’ session at the #WeDemandChange summit.

It is a proposal that Collective may be best placed to undertake, having coordinated the independent leftwing challenges in the general election last year.

Sounds like Britain is going to be hit by Trump’s tariffs.

There are measures beyond retaliatory tariffs which Britain can threaten:

- End all US operations in Britain, close their bases.

- End UK military support for US foreign policy.

If these aren’t on the table, why not?

There’ll have to be open letters published over the coming weeks with signatories calling for Starmer to go:

One from remaining Labour Left members to push the party’s elected officials to speak out.

Another more important one, from elected reps in the Labour-affiliated unions.

We’re supposed to believe the rich will leave if taxed more, so let them grow the economy.

Ok, but that’s not been happening?

We’re supposed to accept public spending cuts, deregulation.

Yet we’ve had years of that - and slow growth?

Britain needs public investment, not cuts.

Investors are supposed to believe 100s of Labour MPs are going to hold the line on billions of cuts - making virtually all UK households poorer - without cracking and using their power to sack the government.

Now, we on the left believe most of these MPs are cowards.

But do investors believe that?

Labour could’ve ripped the bandage off last year:

A big public investment programme to stimulate growth.

They could still do this.

But they won’t.

They’re led by people who are paid saboteurs.

Yet we can’t even assume ‘the markets’ will think ‘Labour does four years of austerity’ is credible!