Vote Steve Turner for Unite General Secretary The deadline for Unite members to vote in this election is noon on Monday 23rd August. If you are a Unite member, please vote for Steve Turner. Steve is the candidate who will fight for Unite’s members and ensure that Unite continues to stand up for socialist policies… Continue reading Crucial labour movement elections
Kent County councillor, Karen Constantine, looks at the plight of traveller communities in Kent. The newest and temporary traveller site in Kent was set up on the roughly tarmacked and windblown, long redundant, ferry car park on Ramsgate’s Port. An inhospitable and exposed location under a towering cliff. Such was the hostility of some of the local… Continue reading The last bastion of inequality
Stephen Beckett looks at the latest Israeli bombardment of Gaza, the UK’s role in it, and the explosion of grassroots support for Palestine. “In our thousands, in our millions we are all Palestinians” chanted the masses on the demos. The ‘hostilities’ between Israel and Palestine have ceased and life returns to ‘normal’. But nothing is… Continue reading We are all Palestinians
Rachel Garnham, of the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy, calls for accountability of the PLP to Labour Party Conference. Recent elections provide all the evidence needed that Keir Starmer and his acolytes need to urgently change course. Disastrous results, backed up by terrible polling for Starmer which also shows that Labour is, predictably, losing huge… Continue reading Restore the Whip to Jeremy Corbyn
Former Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, says the people of Ireland have the right to decide their own future. Labour Briefing readers have a proud historical record – of which I am also proud to have been part – of supporting the peace process in the North of Ireland and the Good Friday Agreement, the… Continue reading Time for a Border Poll
The Greater London Labour Party (GLLP) Conference will take place online on 24th and 25th July. It was scheduled for November but the London Labour Regional Office has forced through bringing the conference forward to July in an attempt to benefit the rightwing of the party. The main organisations of the Labour left in London… Continue reading Support the left for London Labour
