RMT will ‘align’, not re-affiliate, to Labour – and what that means
Members of the RMT (Rail, Maritime and Transport Union) have been voting in recent weeks on whether the union should re-affiliate to the Labour Party. In a tight result, the […]
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Labour First confuse by nominating LEFT candidate. Left candidate protests
Right-wing Labour faction Labour First routinely nominate – usually together with Blairite group Progress – right-wing candidates it wants its supporters to vote for in elections for key positions. But it has […]
Review: “Rise: How Jeremy Corbyn Inspired the Young to Create a New Socialism”
Last year, Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party shook the foundations of UK Establishment and remade the landscape of our politics in a ‘Corbyn surge’ that was characterised more than […]
Izzard: “I’m more a Blairite”
The contest for the three additional places for member representatives on Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) is heating up and tighter than many might have predicted. The places have been […]
A conference for the many, not the few. By Sarah Henney
By Sarah Henney I only decided to go to Brighton at short notice after realising with about ten days to go that there was no way I couldn’t be there. […]
Undercover video shows full shelves in #Venezuela supermarkets
On Thursday the SKWAWKBOX published a first-hand account of the situation in Venezuela that challenges the prevailing portrayal and exposes the ugly reality of much of the opposition ‘protest’ as […]
Shocking videos raise #Venezuela fake-news fears
All the mainstream news channels and publications have been running dramatic footage of a night-time police raid to arrest one of two Venezuelan opposition leaders as part of their odd […]
Video: Liverpool CLP hits delegate funding target, thanks SKWAWKBOX readers
Last weekend, the SKWAWKBOX reported the case of delegates from Garston and Halewood (GH) CLP in Liverpool, who were looking to crowdfund the cost of getting to Labour’s annual Conference […]
This means war? Bevan’s legacy: risk, reward, retaliation & resolution
I spent the train journey down to London this morning reading the first chapters of Aneurin Bevan’s ‘In Place of Fear’, a master-work that was republished for the 60th anniversary of […]
The radical imperative: who dares, wins
There’s some necessary scene-setting in this post – context that has to be grasped for the main point to make sense. I don’t think this is going to be my […]