If ‘taking back control’ means anything, we need a second referendum on the terms of Brexit
It was grossly unclear what people were voting for the first time around.
Salman Shaheen
Website Salman Shaheen is Chair of Isleworth & Brentford Labour Party, a 2018 election candidate, and a journalist. He is a co-founder of Another Europe is Possible.
Blair and Bush can’t lead the fight against Brexit and Trump
Only new ideas can turn the tide
The backlash against refugees is growing
Amid the reports of violence from a minority of refugees, it is important to remember our duty to help those in need
Comment: Why I am stepping down from Left Unity to join Labour
The former principal speaker of Left Unity on why it would be irresponsible not to support Jeremy Corbyn
Comment: Another Europe is possible
The problems Europe faces won’t be solved by Britain turning its back on them
Labour is not losing support because left-wing policies are unpopular: it’s losing support because they are
If Labour wants to reverse its declining poll ratings, it shouldn’t be trying to fight the Tories for the centre-right ground.
Labour has betrayed its supporters on the welfare cap
The Tory austerity drive – bound up as it is in the barefaced lie that Britain was brought low in 2008 by benefit scroungers and not reckless bankers – was never about fixing the economy. It was about shrinking thetest
As long as Labour believes it can take working class voters for granted, nothing will change
Salman Shaheen, a member of Left Unity’s national co-ordinating group, replies to Left Foot Forward editor James Bloodworth, who wrote a piece for the Guardian yesterday in which he argued that the left should stick with the Labour Party.
Owen Jones calls on the left to unite against austerity
Chavs author, Independent writer and Labour activist Owen Jones talked to Salman Shaheen about the People’s Assembly and the prospects for resistance to austerity
Did Thatcher make Britain a more selfish country?
It is a curious irony that, with the death of Margaret Thatcher and the release of Ken Loach’s The Spirit of ’45, the two great ideological consensuses of the 20th century should return to sharp focus at the same time.