This week's Labour Party conference marked yet another turning point. Under its new leadership, Labour's policies have turned sharply back to the right, and are now virtually indistinguishable from those of the Tories. As a consequence, Labour has LOST...* well over 150,000 members, with many thousands of socialist activists expelled* almost £15 million in funds, … [Read more...]
Roger Silverman Speaks on the Crisis in the Labour Party
Roger Silverman speaks on the crisis in the Labour Party to an audience of nearly 200 at the conference of the Labour In Exile Network, 27th February 2021. … [Read more...]
Labour in Crisis
Six months ago, Sir Keir Starmer won the Labour leadership election on a promise to maintain Corbyn’s radical policies and unify the party. Since then…* a leaked secret report has exposed wilful sabotage by racist party officials;* Corbyn’s sole ally in the shadow cabinet has been sacked;* Corbyn himself has been suspended from membership of the party;* The party has been “swamped” by mass … [Read more...]
Roger Silverman and Labour Party NEC Elections
Roger Silverman speaks about being a candidate for the Labour Party National Executive Committe elections … [Read more...]
WHY I AM STANDING FOR THE NEC
by Roger Silverman As an NEC member, I would campaign vigorously to restore the supremacy of party conference, uphold the democratic right of open selection of candidates for office, end arbitrary suspensions, and put forward radical socialist policies along the lines of the 2019 election manifesto. I was born into a Labour family and have been a lifelong party activist. My father was a … [Read more...]
The British Labour Party: A Socialist Dialogue Discussion
Britain: The Pandemic, the Working Class and the Left
By Andrew Burgin The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating across the world. Every few days the scope and scale of the disease is increasing. Hundreds of thousands of people are being infected, many thousands have already died and many tens of thousands will die. In China, where the outbreak was first identified, it has been brought under control, but elsewhere it is spreading rapidly. In … [Read more...]
Editorial: On the Brink Spring 2020
This is no time for glib slogans. December’s election result is a serious setback. It clears the way for the most brutal Tory attacks yet seen on our living standards and our democratic rights, destroying the last remaining vestiges of the welfare state and plunging into despair a generation of youth desperate for the chance of a future. It also puts at risk the advances made in the last four … [Read more...]
UK Election 2019
This election was a big defeat for the Labour Party. There will be much debate and questioning in its aftermath. The enemies of socialism will do their best to use the election result to try and destroy the socialist message. Did Labour promise too much? Britain is the sixth richest country in the world. The Attlee government could afford to introduce and fund the NHS directly … [Read more...]
The 2019 Labour Party Conference – a brief report
Roger Silverman It won’t surprise many of us to learn that the recent Labour Party conference was nothing remotely like the press and media reports. For them, it was a disaster: rival factions were tearing the party to pieces over Brexit and anti-semitism, and Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership was finished. This was not the conference I attended, as delegate from my constituency party. The first … [Read more...]