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What happened to Local TV?

Siobhan McGuirk — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:52:12 +0000

Local TV promised to platform grassroots politics and marginal voices, but weak regulation saw the sector thin out. Andy Brain surveys the survivors and asks: can communities reclaim the airways?

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Your Party, our roots

Gerry Hart — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0000

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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Sahel: broken promises and empty anti-imperialism

Gerry Hart — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0000

The junta regimes of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger present themselves as revolutionary and anti-imperialist. Their hollow rhetoric masks authoritarianism and new forms of foreign influence, argues Joshua Shangobiyi

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No MAS: the Bolivian left faces up to defeat

Gerry Hart — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Infighting over centralised power, corruption and economic crisis has led to defeat for a once-inspiring Indigenous leader and social movement party. Linda Farthing and Benjamin Swift report

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We need a new electoral system to defeat the far right

Gerry Hart — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000

A campaign for constitutional reform is an urgent priority for the UK, argues Mark Corner. Without it, the rising right will exploit our undemocratic politics to impose its extreme agenda

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Cymunedoli: The glue that binds

Gerry Hart — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Economic power in the community – cymunedoli – is the antidote to the far right’s growing appeal in Cymru, write Beth Winter and Leanne Wood

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Rising to Reform’s stranglehold in County Durham

Gerry Hart — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0000

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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Investigative journalism: A light in the darkness

Gerry Hart — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0000

The most important function of investigative journalism is to hold power to account, writes Katie Mark

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How to build a new left-party alliance

Gerry Hart — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0000

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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Britain unbowed: How to build a British broad left front

Gerry Hart — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0000

James Meadway sees discontent with Labour as a chance for the UK left to realign along similar lines to the broad left front being forged in France

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