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Guest post pt 2: understanding Labour heartlands, winning back UKIP vote

09/06/2018by SKWAWKBOX 35 Comments

In a follow-up to his first hard-hitting guest post, South Yorkshire teacher, Labour voter and trade union activist Andy Searson moves from analysis of the working-class Brexit vote and why […]

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Exclusive: interview with new NEC member Izzard

01/04/2018by SKWAWKBOX 19 Comments

This interview was first published during the election of three new, additional members of the NEC, in which comedian Eddie Izzard was standing as an independent candidate, though backed by […]

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Exclusive: Izzard on his NEC bid, Labour democracy, the chicken-coup and more

08/12/2017by SKWAWKBOX 44 Comments

Famous comedian, marathon-runner and Labour Party member Eddie Izzard is running for one of three new places on Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) as an independent candidate and is considered […]

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Exclusive: Merseyside Royal Mail workers refuse to deliver S*n leaflets

06/12/2017by SKWAWKBOX 15 Comments

In the last hour or so, Royal Mail workers on Merseyside have agreed that leaflets or vouchers sent by the S*n ‘newspaper’ to addresses in the Liverpool and Wirral areas […]

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Right-wing hardliner Ian Austin’s CLP shuns him to swing left. Twice

04/11/2017by SKWAWKBOX 17 Comments

‘Thuggish‘ Ian Austin is one of the most extreme and least liked of the Labour Party’s right-wing old guard. In 2016 he disgraced himself by heckling his own party leader […]

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Huge win for left as right-wing Birmingham bastion starts to crumble

27/10/2017by SKWAWKBOX 25 Comments

The West Midlands have long been a bastion of the least pleasant face of right-wing Labour. Birmingham’s nominally-Labour council has been at the heart of the ongoing dispute over the […]

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Royal Mail ‘wins’ injunction – but CWU stronger and ready to work to rule

12/10/2017by SKWAWKBOX 10 Comments

A judge has granted Royal Mail a temporary injunction against planned industrial action by the CWU (Communication Workers’ Union) over pensions and conditions. CWU members had voted to support the […]

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How the corruption works: the Royal Mail example

08/04/2014by SKWAWKBOX 12 Comments

Forget the protestations of Cable, Cameron and Osborne about the ‘need’ for low valuations (as if the ‘failure’ to complete the privatisation, leaving us all in ownership, would have been […]

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