By Josh Lovell Over the past five years, many new, left-wing Labour Councillors have been elected into local government. I count myself as one of these who ‘rode the wave of Corbynism’ into local government alongside the resurgence of anti-austerity politics forming part of the new political mainstream. Nationally the Labour Party led its 2017 […]
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Stop the rush to No-Deal
• If you agree with this article, please add your name to this call for Labour to campaign on this As part of the internationalist response to the Covid-19 crisis we advocate, Momentum Internationalists is calling for a “lengthy extension of the Brexit transition period”. What does that mean? In the best case scenario, where […]
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Labour must stand with Kashmir
By Nadia Whittome MP (August 8th 2019) By revoking Articles 370 and 35A of the Indian constitution that provide special autonomous status and residency rules for Jammu and Kashmir, and preparing to break up the state, Narenda Modi’s far-right, Hindu-supremacist government has effectively declared war on the Kashmiri people. It has virtually declared a literal […]
• To sign the letter, click here. After meeting with the executive of “Labour Friends of India” (LFIN), a group which opposes criticism of India’s current far-right government, Keir Starmer has made comments which are assumed to be a move to distance Labour from its conference policy in solidarity with Kashmir. “We must not allow […]