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Published in: openDemocracyUKMoving to the right could ‘blow up in Labour’s face’, warns Diane Abbott
During an openDemocracy debate last week, the former shadow home secretary challenged the idea that the UK’s Labour...
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Published in: Home: OpinionI saw from the inside how Labour staff worked to prevent a Labour government
The work of senior Labour staffers to stop Labour winning is only just starting to come out.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWere Labour’s antisemitism failures really Corbyn’s fault?
A leaked Labour report seems to provide evidence that it was in fact Corbyn’s opponents who delayed the disciplining...
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Published in: HomeChanged My Mind: a Jewish Labour activist on why he left the party
“Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party is complicated because it is not what people traditionally imagine anti-Semitism...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionI met Keir Starmer’s donkeys – and they told me something about him
The Mail on Sunday dug for dirt on the new Labour leader. They found something very different.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWhy it’s time for a democratic and organised BAME Labour voice
Black and Minority Ethnic MPs can show how a community with common cause can tackle some of the most divisive and...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionTo make public ownership truly democratic, we need to transform the state
The new UK Labour leadership should not abandon the party's commitment to economic democracy.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionKeir Starmer is Labour's Iain Duncan Smith
Quiet men in their party's comfort zone on Europe don't have a habit of winning.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe leaked Labour report should have been an explosive scandal
But the media buried it, because they were complicit
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionEngland's left must rebuild... outside the Labour party
The Labour machine stifles energy and staves momentum.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionCorbyn wasn't all bad
Labour has to learn from the successes as well as the failures of the past.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionTo grab this moment, the next Labour leader will need humility
Coronavirus changes everything.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionLabour’s new leader must be a capacity builder
Britain’s Labour party has five potential futures...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionLabour must not abandon media reform
In an open letter to Labour leadership candidates, prominent figures in the party call for continued support for...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionDoes Labour have to triangulate between power and principle, or is there another way?
Competence is not enough. Labour's new leader must be able to listen, trust, share power, and have fun.
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Published in: ourEconomyEconomics for millennials: an interview with Grace Blakeley
The economist talks to Andrés Lomeña about power relations, feminism and what an economics designed by young people...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionShapeshifters: the hard lessons Labour must learn from ‘Johnsonism’
Labour often characterises Johnson as an opportunist. But his skills go deeper, and Labour must learn how to respond.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe revolution will be networked
“let us turn our faces to the future again. Our adversaries have succeeded in their revolution. Its fruits will be...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationThe campaigns trying to turn British Indians against each other
This election is turning Britain’s minority communities against each other – and the tensions could reverberate for years.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKInside Momentum’s plan to defy the polls and make Corbyn PM
Bogeyman of the right, heroes of the left: but what does Momentum actually do, and why has it been so successful?