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The Battle for Makerfield & the Future
Summary and analysis of the Makerfield by-election and Andy Burnham's explicit leadership bid and challenge to change the neoliberal order, which has gone unchallenged since at least 1983
Lucy Lydekker
9 hours ago7 min read
London 2026: Bleak future for the major parties
The 2026 London local elections was a mixed bag for the major parties. I have five boroughs in London, the results of which give us some ideas on where the major parties stand, that being the Labour party, the Conservative party, and the Liberal Democrats, and what their future may be like in a world increasingly dominated by the Greens and Reform. Red voting Redbridge Here, the Labour party maintained control of the council with 43 out of 63 seats. This was down 15 from the
Lucy Lydekker
Jun 35 min read
The Dilemma of Leadership: Keir Starmer's Struggles in the UK
Opinion piece that calls for Prime Minister Kier Starmer to resign from office as party leader of Labour
JM Valat De Córdova
Apr 243 min read


The unbelievable survival of the SNP (2026 Holyrood elections)
The latest YouGov MRP model is suggesting that the Scottish National Party (SNP) could win an overall majority in the upcoming May 2026 parliamentary elections in Scotland. This is a historic turnaround for a party which seemed to have collapsed after a hefty defeat at the 2024 general election and scandals in 2023.
Lucy Lydekker
Apr 236 min read


Labor & Greens Merge in Netherlands: A New Leftist Force To Be Reckoned With?
Accessed via WikiMedia, ProgressiefNederland, progressiefnederland.nl (KUALA LAMPUR, MALAYSIA) — On 26 March 2026, the Labour Party and the Green-Left movement in the Netherlands announced that they would be merging the two parties together under the banner of Progressief Nederland [Progressive Netherlands] and abbreviated “PRO” on 13 June later this year. This is the culmination of half a decade’s worth of serious work being done on the national level of greater cooperation
Timothy
Apr 85 min read


What happened to Your Party?
2026 UK Elections: The Muted Threat of Your Party Corbyn’s seeming reluctance to found his own political party last September — having to be persuaded by former Labour MP Zarah Sultana — may be seeping into Your Party’s campaign ahead of the upcoming May 2026 UK elections. The party has endured a difficult first half-year: internal policy and leadership disputes, boycotted conferences, multiple MPs defecting, and a rival socialist party in the Greens surging in the polls. The
Lucy Lydekker
Apr 53 min read
Trans rights under Labour
Labour's landslide victory poses key questions for where the party will go on trans rights now in government.
Lucy Lydekker
Oct 13, 202423 min read
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