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Left politics
Don’t tell angry people to calm down – ask what they’ve been trying to say
Working-class anger is rarely irrational. It is what years of asking politely and being ignored looks like – and the left should give it somewhere to go, argues El Donnellon.
Taking the win isn’t selling out
Andy Burnham’s Labour conference speech handed the left real gains and real fights. Crying betrayal squanders both – and says more about the critics than the prime minister.
Root & Branch brings its left organising platform to Green conference
The cross-party platform wants socialists split across the Greens, Your Party, Labour and the unions to stop relying on WhatsApp groups and organise in one place. It will be at stand 19 in Brighton from Friday.
“Support doesn’t mean subservience” – Labour left backs Burnham but vows to hold him to account
Socialist Campaign Group MPs and union leaders hailed the prime minister’s conference speech as a win for the left – but warned his words on ending neoliberalism must now become action.
The left used to build community. It’s time it started again
Loneliness isn’t just personal, it’s political – and the right is filling the gap the left has left behind. Harry Cross argues the left must rebuild the clubs, halls and spaces where solidarity used to grow.
The British left is bigger than it thinks
Harry Cross argues that the left’s activist base is far larger than its critics – and its own doubters – assume and warns against internalising decades of hostile caricature as a besieged minority.
Group chat blues? Root & Branch offers an antidote
As the left fractures across parties, unions and none, a new platform wants to rebuild the connections WhatsApp groups were never built to hold.