Labour Party Archives - Red Pepper https://www.redpepper.org.uk/political-parties-and-ideologies/labour-party/ Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:07:59 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-RP-Sq-Logo-32x32.jpg Labour Party Archives - Red Pepper https://www.redpepper.org.uk/political-parties-and-ideologies/labour-party/ 32 32 Labour and the unions: a contentious alliance https://www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-unions-work/work-trade-unions/labour-and-the-unions-a-contentious-alliance/ Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:07:57 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=47741 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

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]]> Your Party, our roots https://www.redpepper.org.uk/political-parties-and-ideologies/socialism/your-party-our-roots-and-branches/ Fri, 28 Nov 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=46845 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 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/political-parties-and-ideologies/socialism/the-world-transformed-giving-history-a-push/ Tue, 07 Oct 2025 12:17:31 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=46601 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

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]]> The Starmer Symptom – review https://www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-media/books/the-starmer-symptom-review/ Fri, 03 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=46556 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 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/economics-unions-work/alternative-economies/winning-the-case-for-progressive-taxation-on-inheritance/ Fri, 05 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=46290 The left needs to understand popular opposition to inheritance tax in order to effectively reframe the debate, argues Dominic Davies

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]]> Rising to Reform’s stranglehold in County Durham https://www.redpepper.org.uk/political-parties-and-ideologies/authoritarianism-far-right/rising-to-reform-uks-challenge-in-durham/ Fri, 29 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=46257 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 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/political-parties-and-ideologies/democracy/how-to-build-a-new-left-party-alliance/ Fri, 22 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=46201 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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]]> No short cuts: Does the British left really need a new party? https://www.redpepper.org.uk/political-parties-and-ideologies/socialism/no-short-cuts-does-the-british-left-really-need-a-new-party/ Fri, 23 May 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=45651 We need to build an independent politics from below, argues Hilary Wainwright – and look to longer-term organising, not quick answers

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]]> The power of place: building independent power from local communities https://www.redpepper.org.uk/political-parties-and-ideologies/socialism/the-power-of-place-building-independent-power-from-local-communities/ Thu, 01 May 2025 07:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=45525 Any national independent political organisation must be built up from interconnecting community power in localities, Jamie Driscoll (Tyneside) and Andrew Feinstein (Camden, London) tell Red Pepper

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]]> Party revitalisation? An interview with Greens Organise https://www.redpepper.org.uk/environment-climate/climate-change/party-revitalisation-an-interview-with-greens-organise/ Sat, 01 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://www.redpepper.org.uk/?p=44717 Red Pepper speaks to Zoë Garbett, Robert Magowan and Ani Chowdhury, who are organising to put diverse working class voices at the forefront of the Green Party programme

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