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‘Watch the unions; that’s my tip.’ The post-war Labour left MP Ian Mikardo was observing the political consequences of trade unions moving…
Hilary Wainwright
Hilary Wainwright is Research Director of the New Politics Programme at the Transnational Institute and editor of Red Pepper, a popular British new left magazine. She is also an Honorary Fellow in Sociology at Manchester University, UK. Her books include Reclaim the State: Adventures in Popular Democracy (Verso/TNI, 2003) and Arguments for a New Left: Answering the Free Market Right (Blackwell, 1993). She has written for ZNet, The Guardian, The Nation, New Statesman, Open Democracy, Carta, Il Manifesto and El Viejo Topo, as well as appearing as a commentator on BBC1, BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service. She has been a Senior Research Fellow at the International Labour Studies Centre, University of Manchester; a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics, at Durham University and at the Open University, UK; Visiting Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles; and a Visiting Scholar at the Havens Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison and at Todai University, Tokyo. Wainwright also founded the Popular Planning Unit of the Greater London Council during the Thatcher years, and was convenor of the new economics working group of the Helsinki Citizens' Assembly from 1989 to 1994.
The new UK Labour leadership should not abandon the party’s commitment to economic democracy
The UK needs a people’s constitution to defend rights and enable us to fulfil our potential
Under the UK’s constitutional monarchy, we are subjects not citizens. Rewriting the constitution should be an urgent priority for a Labour government
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The vision of British Labour’s shadow chancellor John McDonnell
This recognition of workers as not simply an interest to be defended but as knowledgeable, creative allies in the process of production of social wealth, considerably strengthens Labour’s claim to be the party with which voters can best entrust the economy
Exploring the turbulent history of 1968 social movements – and what they can teach us about building counter-power today
A Labour government could overhaul a struggling, unjust economic system
Believe in your own capacities, believe in everybody else’s, and work in a collaborative way to change society