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    Labour and the unions: a contentious alliance

    David Howell traces union-Labour Party relations from the aftermath of the general strike, through shaping the 1945 government, tensions under Harold Wilson to Thatcher-era marginalisation

  • A group photo of members of Your Party's Tower Halmets group with anti-fascist banners

    Your Party, our roots

    Away from the Your Party inaugural conference, its seeds are growing into roots across the UK. John Stephens reports on the branch members forging their own paths to action

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    The World Transformed: giving history a push

    TWT is back, with a new approach to galvanise the British left. Join us to shake off nostalgia, get organised and rise to meet growing threats, write Andrea Gilbert, Lydia Phillips and Isaac Rose

  • British Prime Minister Keir Starmer stood at a lectern in front of Number 10 Downing Street

    The Starmer Symptom – review

    As anger and disillusionment with Labour increase, a new collection from Mark Perryman asks some bold and urgent questions about dialogue on the left, writes Kevin Davey

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    Reclaiming inheritance tax as a social good

    The left needs to understand popular opposition to inheritance tax in order to effectively reframe the debate, argues Dominic Davies

  • A group photo of celebrating Reform UK councillors and activists in Durham, with party leader Nigel Farage in the centre

    Rising to Reform’s stranglehold in County Durham

    Reform is a byproduct of Thatcherism, Labour Party failures and left activists’ limited imaginations, argues Ben Sellers. Only a long-term strategy for deep community organising can reverse the right-wing course that appears to lie ahead

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    How to build a new left-party alliance

    A left-led Green party and the new ‘Your Party’ are both vital to defeating the right – but we need cross-party collaboration and grassroots organising to forge real change, argues Labour-turned-Green councillor Liam Shrivastava

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