Labour can no longer sit on the fence when it comes to Palestine
After Labour conference passed a Young Labour motion on Israel and Palestine, Unite’s Tony Burke says Labour must be clear in its support for Palestinian rights.
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Opinion: Keir Starmer and dishonesty is a recurring theme
Hamza Ali Shah argues Starmer’s leadership has so far been ‘typified by U-turns, disingenuity and underhandedness’
A new voting system: Will Labour ever accept sharing power to win?
Here’s what happened at Compass’s Labour Conference fringe rally on the the possibility of Labour backing electoral reform
An abdication of responsibility: Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union’s disaffiliation with Labour
The union is separating itself from Labour but not from Labour debate, in which case why disaffiliate?
Richard Burgon: ‘Starmer’s leadership rule changes treat members with contempt’
“If Keir had said in his leadership campaign he was going to reduce the power of Labour party members, and their democratic say, he wouldn’t have been elected leader of the Labour Party.”
EXCLUSIVE: John McDonnell says Labour general secretary David Evans has ‘destroyed community organising’
“What general secretary can be considered a success when you’ve lost nearly 150,000 members and when the party’s in disarray as a result of a purge?”
Keir Starmer faces growing backlash over plans to scrap Labour leadership rules that got Corbyn elected
Starmer has put forward proposals to scrap Labour’s one-member-one-vote approach to party leadership elections, where every party member’s vote had equal value, in favour of an electoral college, in which MPs would have greater say.
EXCLUSIVE: John McDonnell says ‘Labour Party’s purge is having a severe impact on mental health of members’
“We’ve lost over 100,000 members, some people say 150,000, that’s the army that goes out and fights the elections for us”.
What to expect from the Labour conference: Division and a lack of clarity from Starmer
‘Starmer has not been the unifying leader many had envisaged, nor has he continued to advocate for the ten pledges he put to the membership a mere eighteen months ago.’
Backlash from Labour activists and MPs after Green New Deal motion blocked
‘Labour for a Green New Deal described the move as ‘anti-democratic’ which was designed to ‘silence members, making a mockery of any commitment to bold climate action’.