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Ed is right to wait on policy, fixed term parliaments have changed the rhythm of politics 27 Aug 2013 | 11:00 am
by Ian Moss In the summer of 2007 regional offices of the Labour party distributed leaflets to its constituencies and held briefing meetings with ward organisers to discuss the campaign plan for the ...
Letter from Wales: the Welsh Language Society needs some decent PR! 23 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
by Julian Ruck I have been wrong. And never let it be said that I will not listen to a fair and reasonable argument, albeit that I may well disagree with part of it. On 21.8.13 I interviewed Tony S...
The farce of the “Bradford Spring” is over, but we should not forget its lesson for Labour 21 Aug 2013 | 05:04 pm
by Rob Marchant Ah, the excitement of the “the most sensational victory in British political history”, as its author so modestly put it, has all lasted a tragically short time, hasn’t it? The surpri...
What is the point of today’s Labour party? 21 Aug 2013 | 02:01 pm
by Dan McCurry Way back in 1992, at the TUC conference, John Prescott stunned the socialist movement, by making a forceful speech in favour of John Smith’s proposed trade union reform. He attacked th...
The foolishness of “fairness” 19 Aug 2013 | 11:28 pm
by Sam Fowles Iain Duncan Smith has said he won’t apologise for trying to make our welfare state “fairer”. But “fairness” is both an impossible and irresponsible goal in public policy. The “silly se...
Letter from Wales: Here come “Carwyn’s Carriers,” the new Welsh budget airline! 16 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
by Julian Ruck It seems that Carwyn Jones now fancies himself as a latter day Biggles, without the goggles. Allow me to give you yet another classic example of Welsh Labour’s fantasy economics. On ...
Labour must expose the Tory wealth trap 14 Aug 2013 | 03:05 pm
by Dan McCurry The Tory wealth trap is making the rich richer, while the rest of the population either stands still or gets poorer. There is no trickle down effect caused by the squeezing the real ec...
A tale of two very different Guardian interviews: Darling and Burnham 13 Aug 2013 | 02:54 pm
by Jonathan Todd Decca Aitkenhead reported this weekend on Andy Burnham telling her that Labour must shout louder or risk election defeat. Some twitter reaction suggests that this would help Labour o...
Union backed change to Labour rules set to wipe out party groups like Labour Women’s Network 12 Aug 2013 | 11:29 am
by Atul Hatwal It started as an attempt by sections of the union movement to target Progress. But Uncut understands that a rule change, submitted by ASLEF and initially intended to outlaw Progress, h...
Labour history uncut: “They didn’t tell us we could do that” 9 Aug 2013 | 10:14 pm
by Pete Goddard and Atul Hatwal “We are like marooned sailors on a dreary island” Not a Morrissey lyric, but the upbeat analysis of Ramsay Macdonald, leader of the new national government, as he pon...
