The main culprit for the split of the left vote lies squarely at the feet of the lowest-placed candidate, Hugo Pierre, who won less than 8% of the votes cast, and less than 1% of the votes of the membership.
Month: January 2021
A great loss to the labour movement By the Editor It is with great sadness that we have heard of the death from Covid, of
By Jason O’Neal in the USA It’s been four days since the fiasco at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday and social media has flexed its
A warning to all workers By Harry Hutchinson, member, Labour Party Northern Ireland. It was weeks in the planning. Far right social media sites “The
Setting course for a crisis In case anyone forgets. This catalogue of events, from social media some months ago, outlines well the way Johnson set
The ASSA conference 2021, part I By Michael Roberts The annual conference of the American Economic Association (ASSA 2021) was unusual this year, for obvious reasons.
Biden/Harris inauguration will not solve problems Unprecedented is perhaps the most over-used word in the English language today, but the events in Washington DC cannot
Not a pretty picture By Michael Roberts This time last year, I started my post on the forecast for 2020 by making a distinction between predictions and
NEU setting the tone for 2021 It is a fitting start to 2021 that a trade union is setting records in meeting attendances. Following a
Government’s “cavalier disregard” of science. By a NEU member In the early months of the first coronavirus lockdown, the National Education Union set a record
