An epitaph for New Labour

By Matthew Hynds

Dear old-New Labour, perhaps you would like to paint Corbyn-mania as a cruel blight that has struck your party, a little like the toxoplasmosis virus, which affects the brains of cats, and makes them suicidal. The truth, for you, is less palatable –  He is your monster.

Power vs Principle: The fallacy at the heart of the Labour leadership contest

By Max Eckersley

Party centrists and right-wing media insist that voting for Jeremy Corbyn will make Labour unelectable in 2020, but politics isn’t so black and white. I’m a huge admirer of Steve Coogan, but the comedian was wrong when he wrote in the Guardian recently that Andy Burnham is the only credible candidate for Labour leader, because he’s the only one with a chance of winning the next general election while still offering a ‘radical leftwing vision’.

More ridiculous attacks on Corbyn, please!

By Matthew Hynds

How did this anti-Semitic supporter of Islamic jihad infiltrate Labour in the first place?

You can tell Jeremy Corbyn is doing well in the polls, because the mud slinging is getting good now. If any of it actually sticks, it will be by virtue of the sheer quantities of it that are currently washing over the Islington North MP, like a flash flood, while he stubbornly hangs on, and tries to distract the public from his sinister past by talking about policies, and other inconsequential matters.

Labour needs to leave promises of Utopia to parties with less experience

By Lucette Davies

There were many factors that influenced May’s election result but for whatever reason we have now got a Tory majority installed in Westminster for the next five years.  Already they have backtracked on their promise to not cut  child tax credits and  have frozen  child benefit producing a cut in real terms.  They have suspended plans for major rail upgrades in the Midlands and North of England, tried to slip through a relaxation of the ban on fox hunting and threatened to demolish our Freedom of Information Act alongside making changes that will reduce many young people’s lives to something that I can’t bear to think about.  Surely I can’t be the only person desperate to see a strong opposition?

Another suicide note?

By Sally Patricia Gardner

 

What is the Labour Party doing to itself? Is there no-one strong enough to stop this rush to oblivion? As if we had not done ourselves enough harm by so recently choosing a good man with no leadership potential to head the party, here we go again. History teaches us that it is not enough to vote for someone who promises Utopia. And it also teaches us that both ‘Utopia’ and ‘goodness’ are hard to define.

Labour leadership elections – what’s left?

By Sally Patricia Gardner

It won’t come as a surprise to anyone who has read any of my stuff when I say that I am a socialist. And proud of that. Or mostly proud of that. At the moment, watching the Labour Party, that is to say MY party, tearing itself to bits, I feel more shame and anxiety than pride. What are they thinking of? Surely it is possible to hold different opinions in a party without slagging each other off? And surely all socialists believe in the same core values, or don’t we?