Momentum co-founder: we’ll have more members than the Tories ‘on current trend’
The Labour grass roots movement now boasts over 31,000 members and 250,000 supporters and it’s only two years old.
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The Conservatives have lost a quarter of their members over the past year, says Tory blog
Labour have gained 380,000 new members since 2015 in contrast. How can the Tories even pretend they’re a party of the people now?
Major unions are getting behind decriminalisation of sex work in the UK
They’re supporting giving sex workers the same rights and legal protections as other workers.
Dozens arrested as faith groups and activists block Britain’s biggest arms fair
The world’s ten largest arms manufacturers will meet next week to sell their weapons. Activists are trying to stop them.
McDonald’s workers won in New Zealand and they can win here — here’s how
A union activist explains how their decade-long campaign against zero-hours contracts and low pay was successful.
McDonalds workers have gone on strike for the first time in UK history — here’s why
#Mcstrikers picketed McDonalds HQ on Saturday. We went along to hear why they’re taking action.
We need a radical solution to fight populism — the answer might be federalism
The only real and effective solution to the reactionary politics of populism is returning power to people at a local level.
Charlottesville spells the end of the Alt-Right, a US activist speaks
Fascist protests in Virginia at the weekend left one counter-demonstrator dead and twenty others injured. US public attitudes to the Alt-Right are changed forever.
Huge anti-Brexit protest being planned outside Tory conference
Organisers say the demonstration will kick off an ‘Autumn of Discontent’ over Brexit and will attract hundreds of thousands.
Banned far-right terror group National Action is still recruiting and training members
They have a new leader and are operating out of a warehouse in Warrington, Cheshire, says campaign group Hope Not Hate.