UK’s biggest union starts NEC election today. Why it matters and how you can help
With media and even social media overloaded with Brexit inanity, it would be easy to miss the fact that the UK’s largest trade union UNISON – which has over a […]
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Right’s latest attack on Williamson is a naked attempt to divide the movement
Comment Derby North MP Chris Williamson and this blog stand on opposite sides of the ‘open selection’ debate. Williamson has pressed vocally for open selection – a policy of automatically having […]
Video: Labour’s powerful new broadcast speaks human – and it’s no wonder
The steep change in the quality and accessibility of Labour’s ‘party political broadcasts’ (PPBs) since the election of Jeremy Corbyn as party leader has been unmissable. And it’s no wonder, […]
#Lab18 lessons: reports of death of Corbyn project turned out to be ‘greatly exaggerated’
Author Mark Twain is said to have quipped that ‘reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated’. The same can certainly be said of the ‘Corbyn project’ over the last […]
Ten successes already in the bag at #Lab18
For all the uproar around a couple of specific issues, Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool, which still has two days to run, has already seen a number of successes for […]
Willsman clarifies Momentum jibe – but attacks M-democracy under Lansman. Lansman responds
National Executive Committee (NEC) veteran Peter Willsman was re-elected last week to the NEC in spite of the ill-advised decision by a subset of Momentum’s National Coordinating Group to withdraw […]
Labour right goes bananas at NEC result – and provides a lesson for the left
Opinion Monday’s outstanding result for the grassroots-left ‘slate’ of candidates – a clean sweep of all nine positions – in the elections for Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) was a […]
Camden Momentum’s rebuke to national re smear response: “with every scalp taken, a new target will soon loom into view”
At the beginning of this month, the SKWAWKBOX strongly criticised the decision of the officer group of Momentum’s NCG (National Coordinating Group) to withdraw support from National Executive Committee (NEC) […]
Lansman condemns ‘uncomradely and divisive’ Azim article
Momentum founder Jon Lansman has come out in condemnation of an article by Open Labour’s Owen Smith-supporting Jade Azim, after a fraught twenty-four hours or so in which too many […]
McDonald’s/Williamson’s Democracy Roadshow shows Labour in a class apart
As the Tories descend further into out-of-touch chaos following a wave of resignations overnight in what passes for their Brexit team, two prominent Labour figures are embarking this week on […]