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 November is the cruellest month: The scandal of deaths in the Channel by Tessa Milligan, Co-Chair | 26.11.21 | In: Comment ”you have to understand, no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land.” - from the poem 'Home' by Warsan Shire This... Read More
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 Prison isn’t working – Labour shouldn’t be afraid to say so by Lauren Davison and Simon Jeal | 03.11.21 | In: Comment Whenever the Tories ramp up their punitive law and order agenda, the justice system is shunted back into the spotlight temporarily. So often, however,... Read More
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 We need union votes to rebuild democracy by Sandy Martin | 20.10.21 | In: Comment Chair of the Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform, Sandy Martin, writes about why we need union votes to help us rescue and rebuild democracy.  On 27th... Read More
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 How Open Labour is pushing for a New Democracy by Caroline Osborne and Maria Iacovou | 10.09.21 | In: Comment, Uncategorised Caroline Osborne and Maria Iacovou write about the key role of Open Labour within the Labour for a New Democracy (L4ND) coalition. Delegates to annual... Read More
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 A Very American Coup by Amen Tesfay | 11.01.21 | In: Comment   When I studied American Politics in my A-levels, I always wondered what a Coup in the United States would look like. How it would happen, who... Read More
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 WWI: a different narrative by Amrita Rose | 13.11.20 | In: Comment In the Pas de Calais in Northern France there is a small cemetery for twenty eight Indian soldiers who died in World War One. It was the 11th day of the 11th... Read More
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 100 seconds to midnight by Julie Ward | 03.11.20 | In: Comment On October 24th the tiny Central American state, Honduras, became the 50th country to ratify a new international treaty banning nuclear weapons. This means... Read More
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 School staff will stand up for vulnerable children, even if the government won’t by Tom Clements | 27.10.20 | In: Comment Wednesday 21st October 2020 will prove to be a turning point for our country. And as each day passes since this Conservative Government failed to provide free... Read More
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 An existential threat to devolution by Matthew Hexter and Keiran O'Neill | 14.09.20 | In: Comment, Editorial, General, News The Internal Market Bill is an existential threat to devolution and Labour must continue to oppose it in its entirety. Although presented by the UK Government... Read More
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 STV it is! by Open Labour | 30.06.20 | In: Comment, Editorial, Governance STV it is then! Today the NEC passed a motion to elect the Constituency Representatives by Single Transferable Vote. A policy passed by Open Labour a year... Read More
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 Scientific Advice in the Coronavirus Crisis by Ben Fernando. Ben is Chair of Scientists for Labour, and a postgraduate researcher at the University of Oxford. @benfernando2 | 20.05.20 | In: Comment, News The coronavirus crisis is fundamentally scientific. Frontline care services are being provided by highly-trained and scientifically literate staff, whilst... Read More
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 Northern Ireland and the British Left by Matthew Shannon. Matthew is Secretary of East Midlands Open Labour | 12.05.20 | In: Comment The first time I heard any of the candidates for the Labour leadership able to bring themselves to say “Northern Ireland” at a campaign event was Keir... Read More