Archive - Modern Left

Further and faster on the road to nowhere

Labour and the elections

May 2 •

March 2025

Don't be in denial about the cuts

One of the government’s talking points as it goes into the spring statement is that it is not presiding over austerity or an abandonment of a Labour…

Mar 26 •

Less a u-turn than a swerve

It is now largely accepted that the government has moved away from its earlier leaked - or briefed - plan to impose a real-terms cut to personal…

Mar 17 •

Welfare cuts - Labour's latest collision with its own base

MPs must vote against the welfare cuts

Mar 14 •

MPs need to hear opposition to the welfare cuts

A government source today derided MPs opposed to Labour’s planned cuts to the welfare state as engaging in ‘pearl clutching.’

Mar 13 •

January 2025

The teachers' pay ballot is not 'extraordinary' at all

Fair pay for teaching, no cuts for schools

Jan 13 •

December 2024

The doom loop of the Labour right

Organise for the alternatives in 2025

Dec 20, 2024 •

October 2024

Labour's problem is Labour's right

As Labour marks one hundred days in government, Labour’s problem is now very much the Labour right.

Oct 12, 2024 •

September 2024

In defence of universal benefits and services

Why the winter fuel payment matters

Sep 10, 2024 •

Running for Palestine

The Great North Run

Sep 5, 2024 •

August 2024

Demand real change not empty promises or half measures

By Sarah Woolley, BFAWU

Aug 2, 2024 •

Two risks facing the labour movement

Matt Wrack on rebuilding power in the workplace

Aug 2, 2024 •

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