GE2019

GE2019: No False Consolations

Disaster nationalism has just cut through swathes of Labour's former safe seats, having been forced into a Brexit election to which there was no easy solution. It is a momentous defeat, and we have to own it - writes Richard Seymour.

GE2019: Banking on Brexit: Is a Pro-remain Platform Enough to Win Canterbury?

With Labour MP Rosie Duffield fighting for her Canterbury seat on the basis that she is the only pro-Remain candidate, could her neglect of the party's transformative manifesto be a sorely missed opportunity?

GE2019: This Election Campaign Showed the Left’s Power. Win or Lose We Must Continue to Build a Socialist Future

Whatever happens today, the task of the left over the coming years must be to continue to build up a self-confident socialist movement that understands itself as independent of, though tightly linked to, the Labour party, and with organic links to communities up and down the country, argues Grace Blakeley. Whatever happens today, we are still living through the interregnum between worlds and our choice remains: socialism or barbarism.

GE2019: How Corbyn’s Labour Changed the Minds of Young Scottish Voters

Speaking with young Scottish voters, Lauren Gilmour traces how and why their allegiances have switched from the Scottish National Party and independence to Jeremy Corbyn's Labour.

GE2019: Has Nigel Farage’s Climbdown Guaranteed a Tory Win in the South Coast’s Most Brexit Town?

Bognor Regis and Littlehampton voted overwhelmingly to leave the EU in 2016. With the Brexit Party standing down in this election, the Conservatives are expected to win a large majority. But on the ground, nobody seems enthusiastic about this, Natalie Leal reports, with feelings of frustration and helplessness characterising most conversations about politics.

GE2019: The Only Way is Tory? Resisting the Inevitable in the Conservative Heartlands of Essex

The Tories have been astoundingly successful at reframing cruelty as mere fatalism, argues Labour candidate Oliver Durose. In Essex and across the country the belief that inequality, injustice and unfairness are simply inevitable has permeated the consciousness of both its victors and its victims. We must change this.

GE2019: Why Labour’s Tax Plans Will Be a Sharp Shock for Corporate Tax Avoiders

It sounds so commonsense you could be forgiven for overlooking it - but Labour's plan to make corporations pay tax where they do business could finally bring about some tax justice in the UK, argues Iwan Doherty.

GE2019: Back to Batley and Spen: Labour Is up Against Apathy in Jo Cox’s Former Constituency

The West Yorkshire constituency of Batley and Spen is notorious for the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox in 2016. But beyond this little attention is paid to a seat that isn't quite marginal, but has many of the characteristics of a Tory target. Ethan Shone reports on how apathy and anger have set in.

GE2019: Don’t Trust the Polls, Labour Could Still Win This Election

The way in which polling is conducted in this country is fundamentally flawed, writes Bart Cammaerts. Almost all the polls were inaccurate in 2015 and 2017, and during the EU-referendum more than half predicted the wrong result. Why should we believe them this time around?

GE2019: Pandering Won’t Solve Labour’s Brexit Problem

While it makes sense to spend the last days of the campaign trail shoring up northern and midlands seats, Labour needs to avoid falling into simplistic and conservative narratives on Brexit, argues Michael Chessum.

GE2019: I Support Survivors of Gender-Based Violence. Here’s Why I Can’t Vote for the Tories

Ammaarah Zayna explains why the Tories' policies amount to shutting doors in the faces of some of the most vulnerable women in our society.

GE2019: The Future Is Unwritten: In These Final Few Days, Every Conversation Matters

The days leading up to polling day matter for as many as a third of Labour's votes. With the Conservatives running a fearful and negative air war, it's now that Labour's strength in numbers becomes a real asset, argues James Meadway.

GE2019: Beg Your Granny: In Scotland, Young People are Helping Labour Fight Perceptions of its Past

The electoral dynamics in Scotland are very different from those in the rest of the UK, but its 59 seats are often decisive in a general election. To win, Jeremy Corbyn must both cut through the veneer of SNP progressivism and see off the Tories. Simon Roach reports on how young people are trying to help him do this.

GE2019: Austerity Was an Attack on Our Self-Esteem. We Deserve Better – Let’s Not Talk Ourselves Out of It

Austerity has instilled in us the belief that good things are not possible, and we wouldn't deserve them even if they were. Phil Jones argues we should resist the idea that a better future is too good to be true.

GE2019: Predatory, Poisonous, Vacuous. To Understand Boris Johnson Start With the Spectator

The Spectator, like Johnson, reveals much that is wrong with British politics, argues Aaron Bastani. Elite capture by the billionaire class; the disintegration of any barrier, and thus accountability, between media and politics; the evacuation of any core values beyond opportunism and self-enrichment; a predatory disposition to the public at large.

GE2019: How Much Difference Could Northern Ireland Make in The UK General Election?

Seven seats are up for grabs in Northern Ireland, with the DUP likely to lose out in several of them. What is this likely to mean for the UK as a whole?

GE2019: Against the Death Cult: We Must Not Let Ruthless Ideologues Destroy the Climate and Kill Us All

We are over the brink, argues Eleanor Penny. People have already lost their lives to disasters rooted in fossil-fuel dependent extractive capitalism. But its not too late to break the stranglehold if we act now against the rightwing politicians and fossil fuel companies who are personally invested in destroying our planet.

GE2019: Why a Great Corbyn Campaign Is Good News for Bernie Sanders

For the first time in a long time, there are significant social forces on both sides of the Atlantic working to build a cross-pollinating international movement, writes Jake Woodier, while also waging their own campaigns embodying a major push-back against the forces of far-right neoliberal capital.