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.

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.

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.

A spectre is haunting the Labour party — the spectre of Blue Labour.

Every now and then, progressives come for us. On social media, in hastily assembled blogs and academic papers, in newspaper columns and in parliamentary soirees. It tends to happen after progressives have a rare encounter with the working class, which usually doesn’t go very well.