The basis for 20th-century social democracy in Britain is gone, argues ANDREW MURRAY – but there are measures a Burnham government could take that would break with neoliberalism
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Socialists need electoral reform
Four major electoral reform groups are joining forces — if we want to see left-wing policies happen despite the lack of left-wing parties in Parliament, we should join them too, writes GLYN TYNG
TONY BURKE pays tribute to a dedicated trade unionist and true internationalist who helped organise workers from Britain to Bangladesh
NASUWT leader MATT WRACK says schools are crying out for serious investment — and there are other immediate changes a new prime minister could and should enact
Keir Starmer’s resignation speech seemed to be coming from a different universe, or maybe it was just a fanfaronade of falsehoods, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Starmer will be judged on his record, but it would be wrong to view him in isolation from the crisis of the British political establishment, says the COMMUNIST PARTY in its official statement on the PM’s resignation
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
ON September 7 2023, four major electoral reform groups, Make Votes Matter, Compass, Unlock Democracy and Get PR Done (GPRD), will come together to discuss how other countries have managed to change their electoral systems. Socialists should be supporting them.
In a 2022 poll run by Survation, it was shown that “a majority of people want water, energy, rail, buses, Royal Mail and the NHS to be run in the public sector.”
You would think then that at least one of the three main British political parties who want our votes would be offering such nationalisation as policy; clearly it would be a vote winner.
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