Ed Wallis

I was delighted to contribute to this excellent @uclpolicylab.bsky.social & @powertochange.org.uk essay collection on “Labour and the communitarian tradition”, alongside @ewallis.bsky.social, @mds49.bsky.social, @caitprowle.bsky.social, @kirstymcneill.bsky.social & @andyburnham.bsky.social

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My intro builds on the pamphlet I wrote for @thefabians.bsky.social earlier in the year, exploring communitarian ideas development and place-based experimentation, and drawing out the policy lessons: fabians.org.uk/publication/...

Really pleased to have written the introduction to this new essay collection from @uclpolicylab.bsky.social @right-here.org @powertochange.org.uk. It argues Labour's communitarian tradition holds many of the answers to the key challenges the government faces today: www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/s...

Spending Review response from @locality.org.uk 👇 Some positive announcements like the funding for 350 deprived communities. But despite the Chancellor specifically referencing community assets in the Commons, no dedicated funding for community ownership announced.

“Across Greater Manchester, and the country, Locality members are showing what’s possible when local people are trusted with power"- @ewallis.bsky.social

Great to be with @andyburnham.bsky.social & @right-here.org on the BIG GM Live Well Bus Tour, celebrating community orgs in #Manchester

Excited to be in Manchester today with @right-here.org community leaders, to join the Big GM Live Well Bus Tour. Going to be visiting great @locality.org.uk members, hearing from @andyburnham.bsky.social, and learning about putting community powered devolution into practice.

Ed argues powerfully that there's more to Fabianism than the big state, and that this flavour of Fabianism is the creed we need to meet the moment.

'Fabianism isn't just about the big state. We need to unlock community power' - LabourList It’s time for the left to move it from the margins to the mainstream as the core means of achieving its mission in 2025 and beyond.

In @labourlist.bsky.social, @ewallis.bsky.social argues for a communitarian social democracy that is both of the moment and rooted in the Labour tradition. labourlist.org/2025/05/fabi...

'Fabianism isn't just about the big state. We need to unlock community power' - LabourList It’s time for the left to move it from the margins to the mainstream as the core means of achieving its mission in 2025 and beyond.

‘Fabianism isn’t just about the big state. We need to unlock community power’ Great article from @ewallis.bsky.social
in @labourlist.bsky.social following his recent @thefabians.bsky.social pamphlet.

labourlist.org/2025/05/fabi...

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More on this in my @thefabians.bsky.social pamphlet! fabians.org.uk/publication/...

'Fabianism isn't just about the big state. We need to unlock community power' - LabourList It’s time for the left to move it from the margins to the mainstream as the core means of achieving its mission in 2025 and beyond.

I wrote for @labourlist.bsky.social about why community power provides the answers a Labour government needs to the challenges of today: labourlist.org/2025/05/fabi...

Empowering communities through the English Devolution Bill - LGiU In this article, Locality explains the We’re Right Here campaign, which advocates for fostering community power through the English Devolution Bill. It highlights the need for meaningful community inv...

“Local authorities have a crucial role to play in this new era of community power.“ — @ewallis.bsky.social

In a new article for LGIU, Ed explores how our proposals for more community involvement in local decision-making could help councils meet their goals. lgiu.org/blog-article... @locality.org.uk

Very interesting pamphlet from @ewallis.bsky.social on community as a guiding principle for Labour

Social Democracy Now - Fabian Society Communitarianism has long been part of the Fabian story, most notably developed by G.D.H. Cole and R.H. Tawney. But until now, it has been a subplot — overshadowed by the big-state, democratic…

Community power has always been at the heart of Labour politics.🌹

@ewallis.bsky.social writes for @thefabians.bsky.social about how the government can learn from its history to meet today’s challenges with new & better solutions.

Read the article: fabians.org.uk/publication/... @locality.org.uk

We’re excited to share Social Democracy Now, a new pamphlet by @ewallis.bsky.social.


As political, economic, and environmental challenges mount, Wallis revisits the communitarian tradition and offers a fresh toolkit for social democrats to shape a more participatory democracy. 🧵 (1/5)

"It is equality of *power* that social democrats should seek today – the ability to live our lives together...in the way we choose."

Great pamphlet from @ewallis.bsky.social drawing on the rich communitarian resources of the centre-left and mapping them onto a revisionist policy agenda for today.

It’s been lots of fun reengaging with the Fabian part of my brain, nearly a decade (!) after I stopped working there. Thanks to @thefabians.bsky.social for publishing it!

There are lots of more recent communitarian resources to draw on – some aspects of New Labour plus lots of the policy and practice developments of the last 15 years. So the pamphlet tries to map some of that out into a communitarian revisionist policy agenda for the 2020s.

I also delve into Tony Crosland’s revisionist classic "The Future of Socialism" and suggest he would have made more what he calls “the cooperative aspiration” if writing now

The Fabian tradition has of course always been most associated with the “big state” of the Webbs. But there’s always been the quieter communitarianism of GDH Cole and RH Tawney. The pamphlet argues this provides more fruitful inspiration for social democrats today.

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I’m really pleased to have written a pamphlet for @thefabians.bsky.social . It’s called “Social Democracy Now”, and argues that the answers the left needs today can be in found in its (recent and distant) communitarian past. Read all about it here: fabians.org.uk/publication/...