Today we publish our outline of the direction Labour should take if we are to win popular support for the government, rebuild a national economy which gives dignity to working people, and restore the integrity and sovereignty of the British state and our democracy.
Read moreWhat is Blue Labour?
There has been renewed attention on Blue Labour in recent weeks. We wanted to take the opportunity to clarify why we exist and what we believe.
Read moreLabour's Covenant: A Plan for National Reconstruction
Leading Blue Labour thinkers were involved in the two-year project that produced Labour’s Covenant: A Plan for National Reconstruction in 2022. Originally published by Labour Together, we republish the document in full here.
Read moreA Blue Christmas
Beloved comrades.
I would like to bring light in the darkness and share a generally chirpy mood at the end of a long year.
Read moreThe Labour Tradition and the Politics of Paradox
The Labour Tradition and the Politics of Paradox was published in 2011 to great interest and controversy. Arguing that Labour had lost its way, it called for a radical politics rooted in the best of our national and labour movement traditions. Over a decade on, we are republishing it in full.
Read moreA Covenant for the Future
The UK stands at a moment of decision. Globalisation is rapidly giving way to a new age of geopolitics. With the Russian invasion of Ukraine the politics of blood and iron returns to the European continent and with it the demand for a new politics of national security. Both Labour and the Conservative Party must now confront the UK’s long, slow slide into a chronic state of disrepair and dysfunction. Their failure to do so has left England in a state of deep disillusionment with parliamentary democracy.
Read moreLabour's National Story
Recent days have been deeply traumatic for Labour. The predictable list of causes of our crisis have been rehearsed: poor leader, Brexit, right-wing press, the pandemic. Blame is apportioned and scapegoats called out. The most rancorous and ideologically intransigent dominate, crushing reasoned discussion. But these responses evade the reality that Labour’s crisis is deep and structural.
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