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Can the British left learn anything from the German SPD?
Although Germany is unlikely to slide into the ‘red column’ of Europe on Sunday night, there are still reasons for this election to be of more than passing interest to the British left.
Welsh Lib Dem leader: Free school lunches ‘Happy Meal politics’
The Lib Dem leader in Cardiff has previously free school meals as “Happy Meal politics”.
Lib Dem hypocrisy: Simon Hughes attacks Labour for ‘wasting extraordinary amounts’ on free school meals
In a recent letter to constituents, Lib Dem MP Simon Hughes lamented Labour for ‘wasting extraordinary amounts’ of money on free school meals.
Here is what some Liberal Democrats used to think about free school meals
The Liberal Democrats have not always been so enthusiastic about free school meals.
Why Rwanda has the most female politicians in the world
In Rwanda, 24 of the 80 seats in the Chamber of Deputies are reserved for women. The quota system is just a push, the rest comes naturally. Perhaps the UK would find the same?
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Look Left, our round up of the week’s politics, will be going out shortly.
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.
Greens must become as good at talking to progressives as UKIP are at talking to reactionaries
Darren Johnson AM, Green Party Member of the London Assembly, reports from last week’s Green Party conference in Brighton.
Today’s inflation figures: most people ‘getting poorer very quickly’
Yet again inflation has outpaced wages as figures realeased today by the Office for National Statistics show the Consumer Price Index at 2.7 per cent.
Community organising should be at the heart of the Labour movement as we approach 2015
Community organising can be a source of energy for Labour as we approach 2015.