austerity

Labour must watch its left flank in months to come

Left Unity is the hottest thing on the left right now. In a few short months, it has attracted more than 1,800 members. With a new member joining every 10 minutes over the weekend, the party is going from strength to strength. On Saturday, Left Unity held its first national conference in Manchester. After a […]

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Nick Clegg lies

Did Nick Clegg receive a spine for Christmas, or just a second face?

Either it’s an election year, or Nick Clegg has suddenly discovered some principles. This week, George Osborne announced that there would be another £25 billion in spending cuts after the 2015 general election and around half of that would come from the welfare budget. For Clegg, who must have been given a spine at Christmas,

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Salman Shaheen RT Going Underground

Appearance on RT Going Underground: People power party

I was back on RT on Saturday, this time talking to Afshin Rattansi for their UK political talk show, Going Underground. Ten minutes to chat about the formation of Left Unity and why we need a new political party to provide a voice for working class and vulnerable people in Britain, long since abandoned by

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Huffington Post

Left Unity will fight for the poor if Labour won’t

The storm has blown away the last of the summer. Winter is on its way. And for Britain’s poorest families, forced by a soaring cost of living and the government’s austerity onslaught to choose between heating and eating, it promises to be a winter of discontent. George Osborne may be cheering the country’s return to

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Left Unity Guardian

Letter in the Guardian: Left Unity ready to offer an alternative

Managed to get this letter into the Guardian today, signed by director Ken Loach, Only Fools and Horses actor Roger Lloyd Pack, former Children’s laureate Michael Rosen and a number of other famous writers, academics, activists and musicians supporting Left Unity. This summer will be remembered for Labour‘s final betrayal of the working-class people it

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LBC

Appearance on LBC Radio: Iain Dale interviews me on Labour’s abandonment of the working class

With the People’s Assembly falling on the day Ed Miliband announced he would be sticking to Conservative spending plans, there was much talk last week of Labour abandoning the working classes. It’s not exactly news. Labour gave up on the working class two decades ago. But now I’m helping to build a new party of

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