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.
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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

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

Labour is wrong to vote for Johnson’s deal Brexit is done. But despite Johnson’s boast of having “brought back control”, in no sense will the

While the majority of the main capitalist countries are enjoying a modest economic upswing – small by historic standards, but the biggest since the crash

The new Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, is making strenuous efforts to distance himself, at least in words, from the policies of his two predecessors, Amber

The threatening escalation of the war in Syria, by means of American, French and British air strikes, is a matter of grave concern to socialists

The data amassed by Facebook and the alleged use of this by the secretive Cambridge Analytica company has raised important issues for Labour and trade union activists.

Right-wing Labour MPs are falling over themselves to get on TV and into the media to condemn Jeremy Corbyn for his stance on the Russian

Socialists have long argued that the international austerity regime of the last ten years has been designed with the express purpose of shifting income and