The world has become an increasingly hostile place for progressives, argues ANDREW GAMBLE. In the face of great challenges, how can it become relevant again and win back support?...
Brexit: Labour’s Deepening Dilemmas
The EU withdrawal agreement revealed by the government this week can only make Labour’s Brexit difficulties worse, says WILL BROWN. The party urgently needs to find some greater clarity…...
The Future of Progressive Politics – Taking Back Control?
Politics professor Andrew Gamble will be the headline speaker at the next ILP day school on ‘the future of progressive politics’ to be held in Sheffield on Saturday 15 December....
Dossier Delivers New Doubt on Smillie’s Civil War Death
The long-lost prison files of Bob Smillie, one of the ILP’s most notable Spanish Civil War volunteers, have finally been unearthed in Valencia, casting new doubts on the official version of his mysterious death in 1937....
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists on Tour
A one-man ‘magic lantern’ performance of Robert Tressell’s classic book, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, is currently touring the country to rave reviews....
The Causes and Cures of Brexit
“The Brexit vote was the biggest single democratic revolution the UK has experienced in decades,” according to Neal Lawson of Compass, whose new report brings together more than 20 short essays…...
Campaign Kicks Off to Reprint Carpenter’s Seminal Poem
A bid to reprint Towards Democracy, the seminal poem of Sheffield radical and founding ILPer Edward Carpenter, has been kickstarted with a crowdfunding campaign by the new co-operative publishing company, Millthorpe Press....
Durham Labour Left Conference
Durham Labour Left, a group of democratic socialists based in the north east, is organising a regional conference for local Labour Party members on Sunday 21 October....
Tribune Relaunched at Labour Party Conference
Britain’s self-styled “oldest democratic socialist publication” was relaunched at Labour Party conference this week with new owners and a new editor....
How Corbyn’s Rise Attracted the Young
Jeremy Corbyn’s appeal to young people has dispelled a few myths about their political apathy and disengagement. SAFFRON ROSE reviews a new book that looks at the lives of young people in Britain today and considers why the Labour leader has been such an inspiring figure....
The Origins of Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn’s rise is only the latest in a long line of left-wing ‘corrections’ to a rightward drift in the Labour Party, which date from before it was even founded, argues GRAHAM TAYLOR....
The World Transformed Festival Line-Up
Jeremy Corbyn, Naomi Klein, Owen Jones and Paul Mason just a few of the headline speakers at this year's The World Transformed festival set to run alongside the 2018 Labour Party conference in Liverpool later this month....