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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Jul 27

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It’s Your Party

What does it mean for Starmer’s Labour? And can it achieve its goals?

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Jul 27

It’s Your Party

What does it mean for Starmer’s Labour?

And can it achieve its goals?

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Jul 13

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Sultana Plan

A new left party in Britain?

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Jul 13

I have surveyed the response across the left to Zarah Sultana’s announcement that she is leaving Labour to co-lead the creation of a new party with Jeremy Corbyn.

Link in comments.

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America Really Shouldn't Exist @a-r-s-e.bsky.social · Jul 13

Good analysis of the ways different sections of the Left are responding to the announcement of a new party by Sultana by
@anselleade.substack.com

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Sultana Plan

A new left party in Britain?

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Jun 1

Watch the full interview here: youtu.be/xR-pnE4dQT0?...

Zack Polanski Makes His Leadership Pitch | Full Interview

YouTube video by Turn Left

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Jun 1

Zack Polanski on whether unions will stick with Labour or back the Greens, speaking to @curtisdaly.bsky.social of @turnleftmedia.co.uk

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Jun 1

Zack Polanski on Labour’s next leader, speaking to @curtisdaly.bsky.social of @turnleftmedia.co.uk

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Jun 1

Stay in Labour and fight or join the Greens and #backZack?

In an interview with @curtisdaly.bsky.social on @turnleftmedia.co.uk Green Party leadership candidate Zack Polanski commented on John McDonnell, who this week called for a Labour leadership challenge to Keir Starmer:

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · May 23

That’s your voter base.

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · May 11

New on ‘Road Bloc’:

Zack to the future

Are we all Polanski-ites now?

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Apr 22

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Learning from Lenin

Why we need his Erfurtianism today

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Apr 22

On ‘Road Bloc’:

Learning from Lenin

Why we need his Erfurtianism today

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Apr 20

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Rebranding the revolution

Can we use different labels yet keep the same programme?

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Apr 20

New on ‘Road Bloc’:

Rebranding the revolution

Can we use different labels yet keep the same programme?

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Apr 16

I have a letter in this week’s @socialistworker.bsky.social

It responds to an article on electoral strategy by @tomashtengely.bsky.social

I agree with Tomáš & the SWP, a “broad-based, pluralist umbrella” is needed to intervene in elections.

Next step: a delegate conference of left organisations.

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Apr 14

As I argue here:

prometheusjournal.org/2024/12/11/o...

https://prometheusjournal.org/2024/12/11/one-big-party/

t.co

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Apr 14

Good bit on the Socialist Alliance:

“At the start, the idea of a genuine left-wing unity pulled in hundreds of activists who had been distanced from the left. That initial energy was not sustained – but the start at least was encouraging.”

We can do this again - and sustain it!

DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · Apr 13

A piece making the case for far left groups to take much more seriously the possibility of merging with their allies

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On revolutionary mergers

(The post below is extracted from an internal bulletin article I wrote for my group, rs21. I have not included the passages in which I describe rs21, or those in which I put the case for merging wi…

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Apr 10

Good to see @climatevanguard.bsky.social taking part in this discussion on the party question.

Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · Apr 10

Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social present their perspective on the mass left party and its functions and how it can intervene and agitate for eco-socialism.

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Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · Apr 7

Les P Litts reports from the We Demand Change summit and ponders what should be the next steps for the left in Britain?

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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · Apr 9

💷 Meet the Billionaire 💷

This is Michael Platt, the richest man in the UK.

Wouldn't it be good free up that cash to do something useful?

#greenparty #billionaires #politics #taxwealthnotwork

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Apr 9

Nice to read short pieces from @tuscoalition.bsky.social candidates here:

Socialist Party @socialistparty.bsky.social · Apr 9

WE WON'T PAY FOR THEIR CRISIS
Build the socialist opposition

Issue 1316 of the Socialist out now!
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Featuring:
Editorial: Trump's tariffs set course for world downturn
And updates from the NEU and PCS unions key to the fightback against Labour austerity

The Socialist issue 1316 - Socialist Party

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Apr 9

Good point here about how the We Demand Change summit united trade unionists and campaigners who support different parties (or none) and that future summits must do the same.

I think what’s needed is a separate delegate conference of left groups to form an electoral alliance…

Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · Apr 8

My latest column: socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...

Alex Callinicos: Building the left political alternative to Labour—complicated but essential

The We Demand Change summit of resistance on the weekend before last is a potential game-changer for the radical left in Britain.

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Apr 5

This was a good intervention from the floor at the ‘party time’ session at the #WeDemandChange summit.

It is a proposal that Collective may be best placed to undertake, having coordinated the independent leftwing challenges in the general election last year.

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