Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer

• Where next for the left? - Lindsey German

  

  As part of a discussion on the next steps for the left, Lindsey German looks at the election defeat, the coronavirus crisis and how socialists should organise

• Starmer’s empty new slogan

  

  Dragan Plavsic considers what we should we make of Labour’s new slogan

• Where next for the left? - Holly Rigby

  

  As part of a discussion on the next steps for the left after the rightward shift of the Labour Party under Keir Starmer, looks at Tory failures during the pandemic and the role of union and movement organising

• Where next for the left? - Mike Wayne

  

  As part of a discussion on the next steps for the left after the rightward shift of the Labour Party under Keir Starmer, Mike Wayne looks at the need for a new party of the left and the importance of revolutionary organising

• Tory failure: the explanation lies beyond stupidity - weekly briefing

  

  Lindsey German on the return of Conservative sleaze and Keir Starmer’s unfit-for-purpose Labour Party

• The official opposition isn't working: is there a new frontline? - CounterBlast

  

  While the government is in disarray and Starmer fumbles, the opposition is building in workplaces, writes Chris Nineham

• Labour adrift while the second wave builds - weekly briefing

  

  Lindsey German on faux opposition, media sickness and Britain’s oldest colony

• Counter-revolution in the Labour Party and the coming storm

  

  John McInally, long-standing activist and former member of the PCS executive, contributes to the ongoing discussion on the future of the Labour Party and the prospects for the wider left

• Why the government is to blame, not the people - CounterBlast

  

  Boris Johnson’s Tory government should be held responsible for the scale of the coronavirus crisis, not ordinary people, argues Alex Snowdon

• McCluskey: Starmer's decision to settle is a 'huge miscalculation'

  

  McCluskey is right. Union subs should not be paying off those who helped the Tories win power, argues Chris Neville

• Summer Brexit report: Britain drowns beneath the waves

  

  As the UK reels under the double impact of the pandemic and recession, the Brexit deadline is coming over the horizon, argues Martin Hall

• Starmer's Panorama drama: an attempt to bury Corbyn's legacy

  

  We repost Anna Southern's article in The Left Berlin on the continued attacks on Jeremy Corbyn and the left

• The Starmer supremacy: Labour is now on the wrong side of the struggles that matter

  

  Starmer's stampede to the right means that socialists will need to reach beyond the Labour Party to build a fighting left, argues Chris Nineham

• The Labour leadership isn’t serious about anti-racism - CounterBlast

  

  Starmer isn't fighting racism, he's fighting the left, writes Lucy Nichols

• The Starmer restoration is only just getting into stride

  

  Starmer's transformation of the Labour Party by attacking the left and pulling the party to the right is only just beginning, argues Kevin Ovenden

• Jeremy Corbyn is right to challenge claims of 'institutional antisemitism' 

  

  Labour’s decision to settle with former party officials looks like a politically motivated attack on the left, writes Alex Snowdon

• A wealth tax is a bare minimum, why is Labour not demanding it?

  

  Starmer refusing to back a wealth tax shows he’s not going to fight against the Tories putting the cost of the crisis on working people, argues Shabbir Lakha

• Tory policy: eat, drink, be merry because tomorrow… well you know the rest – weekly briefing

  

  Lindsey German on government idiocy, Black Lives Matter and Starmer’s Thermidor

• Starmer is moving Labour to the right 'brutally and rapidly': a CLP secretary’s resignation statement

  

  Socialists should focus their energies on building the extra-parliamentary left, argues Terina Hine in her statement resigning as Cities of London and Westminster CLP secretary

• ‘Super Saturday’ reopening is reckless and dangerous - CounterBlast

  

  The government’s push to reopen pubs, restaurants and much else this weekend is irresponsible and premature, writes Alex Snowdon 

• Starmer takes Labour right: It's time for an extra-parliamentary left

  

  The fight is on, but it isn't going to be fought in the Labour Party

• The battle is on: and the left can’t win in Labour - weekly briefing

  

  Lindsey German on Labour, the left and taking on the Tories

• Sacking Long-Bailey accelerates Labour’s drive to the right - CounterBlast

  

  The sacking of the shadow cabinet’s only prominent socialist is a milestone in Labour’s move to the right, argues Alex Snowdon 

• Starmer’s ruthless at rooting out the left, not antisemitism - CounterBlast

  

  In a week where the Tories are covering for corruption and risking working people’s lives, Keir Starmer is attacking the left instead of the government says Penny Hicks

• Starmer plays to the right: where now for the left?

  

  Starmer has signalled war on Labour's left with the sacking of Rebecca Long-Bailey. It is a deliberate attempt to root out Corbynism from positions of influence

• Sacking Long-Bailey is a disgrace: it's proof Starmer is leading a witch-hunt against the left - CounterBlast 25 June

  

  There can no longer be any doubt, Starmer is leading a witch-hunt against the left in Labour at a time when the Tories are in maximum disarray, writes Chris Nineham

• Johnson is gambling with our lives. Why is Starmer backing the bet? - CounterBlast 24 June

  

  Boris Johnson is lifting the lockdown when it is patently unsafe to do so, and the opposition's going along with it, writes Shabbir Lakha

• The Tories are at each other's throats, why isn't Labour seizing its chance? - CounterBlast 11 June

  

  When the Tories are caught between their donors and the polls, we deserve better than the present docile opposition, argues Chris Nineham

• Keir Starmer, don’t pander to Modi's fascist regime and its allies in Britain - SASG statement

  

  A statement from Indians for Labour and South Asia Solidarity Group

• Set up to fail? Labour’s not so independent inquiry

  

  Nick Fitzpatrick finds glaring issues with the panel put together by the NEC and its remit to investigate #LabourLeaks

• Starmer’s foreign policy and the spirit of Blairism

  

  Dragan Plavšić considers what Labour’s foreign policy will look like under Starmer’s leadership

• Who pays? Socialists and state intervention part 2 – long read

  

  In the second part of his article, Chris Nineham examines the recent development of the state and how the Coronavirus will impact on government policy and the left

• Starmer's Labour: the opposition's gone missing

  

  Kevin Potter explores whether Labour's attempt at constructive opposition is actually opposition at all