Starmer and the right wing used the recent Labour conference to consolidate their grip over the party. As Rob Sewell discusses, an examination of their big business backers reveals clearly the capitalist interests that they represent and defend.
This year’s Labour conference has ended in a victory for the right wing. The left must learn the lessons from the rise and fall of the Corbyn movement. The only way forward is to build the forces of Marxism. Join us in this vital task.
The Labour right wing has won a series of important votes at this year’s party conference, provoking anger and outrage amongst left delegates through their bureaucratic antics. Amongst this mess, the ideas of Marxism have gained a strong echo.
After a year’s hiatus, Labour’s annual conference begins this weekend. The event is set to be a showdown between Starmer, on one side, and grassroots members and left unions, on the other. The left must boldly take the fight to the right.
The Labour right wing have carried out a brazen attack on press freedoms, explicitly denying Socialist Appeal journalists entrance to the party’s upcoming Labour conference on political grounds. We urge readers to rally against this injustice.
With conference just over a week away, Starmer and the right wing are going into overdrive with their purge, threatening left delegates with expulsion. The stage is set for one of the most tense and explosive Labour conferences in decades.
Battles are breaking out across the labour movement, with Starmer purging socialists from the party, and the Unison bureaucracy sabotaging the union’s left-wing NEC. The left must make a stand and clear out these agents of the establishment.
Revelations this week have shone a light on the appalling treatment of the Young Labour national committee by the Labour right wing. Grassroots members must mobilise to defend the YL leaders, and organise to defy David Evans’ diktats.
The scandalous expulsion of left-wing film director Ken Loach has provoked widespread anger amongst Labour’s rank and file. The fight against the purge must be both a struggle to clear out the right and a struggle for bold socialist policies.
The expulsion of socialists from the Labour Party has spilt over onto university campuses, with Lancaster Uni Labour Club proposing to ban Marxist society members. Activists must defy the right wing, join the Marxists, and fight the purge.
Ben Gliniecki recently received a letter of automatic exclusion from the Labour Party officialdom for the ‘crime’ of supporting Socialist Appeal. Here is his reply to the Labour bureaucracy.
In response to the Labour right wing’s move to purge socialists from the party, solidarity motions and statements have come in from across the rank and file of the labour movement. Now the left must mobilise to drive out Starmer and the right.