Motability Cuts Threaten Disabled Independence and Mobility A statement from Disable People Against the Cuts. DPAC (Disabled People Against Cuts) and Lincolnshire DPAC unequivocally condemn the Motability Scheme changes announced today, which have stripped the scheme of essential, practical…

Britain 2032. A dystopian state of the nation Ian Hodson looks into the future and makes an assessment of what three years under Reform rule might look like. Foreword: A Nation Rebuilt on Fear When Reform UK swept to power in the 2029 election, taking nearly every English constituency and…

The Wrong Prescription – Why Labour Must Rethink Its Approach To Asylum By Rathi Guhadasan The Socialist Health Association condemns the asylum reforms announced this week by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, which represent a deeply concerning erosion of fundamental health and human rights…

The Labour Left Podcast Interview: Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP In the latest edition of the Labour Left Podcast Bryn Griffiths of Labour Hub talks to Bell Ribeiro-Addy of the Socialist Campaign Group about fighting racism within Parliament. Bell entered Parliament in 2019 as the Corbyn period drew to a…

Think twice before copying Denmark’s asylum policies theconversation.com/think-twice-...

'Horrifying' treatment of Palestinian family-of-seven fleeing Gaza conflict - booted from asylum hotel day after speaking to journalists national.thelead.uk/p/refugee-fa...

Ecuador Rejects Noboa’s Rightward Turn Ecuadorians vote against the government’s U.S.-aligned agenda, defending progressive constitutional protections and opposing foreign military bases. nacla.org/ecuador-reje...

COP30: UK calls for global ambition at UN talks "ring hollow": friendsoftheearth.uk/latest/cop30...

New report suggests refugees could bring major economic benefits labouroutlook.org/2025/11/19/n...

European rearmament and the drive to war Carol Turner previews this Saturday’s upcoming CND Conference. Labour Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has announced what she says are “the most sweeping asylum reforms in modern times.” Modelled on Danish legislation that is widely regarded as the most…

A majority of voters back a wealth tax, including 82% of Labour voters. Austerity is a political choice. The Government must tax the rich instead.

Outside the Department of Health with WeOwnIt making our message clear - there is no place for PFI in our NHS.

Yvette Cooper, Foreign Secretary, has spoken of the humanitarian crisis in Sudan. This week Shabana Mahmoud, Home Secretary, supported safe & legal routes for refugees. So I’ve tabled an Early Day Motion calling on the government to establish a safe & legal route for Sudan crisis.

Right to Food UK Commission launched The Right To Food UK Commission, announced in September 2025, was launched in Parliament this week. It will interrogate and report on the scale of food poverty and hunger in the UK today. The scale of food insecurity in Britain today is shocking. Some 14…

The Home Secretary’s new immigration plans are divisive and xenophobic. Scapegoating migrants will not fix our public services or end austerity. The Government must fundamentally change course. Refugees are welcome here.

Your regular reminder that there is absolutely nothing "hard" or "tough" about targeting the poorest, most vulnerable, and least able to defend themselves groups of people on the entire planet

The real cause of deprivation in communities across the UK is not people seeking asylum, but billionaire elites who defend their power by seeking to divide the working class. Labour MPs must speak out and vote against these changes to asylum policy.

Alf Dubs is right. We need more compassion in our politics. Labour adopting anti-refugee rhetoric risks emboldening Reform to promote even more racist and radical measures against migrant communities.

Government asylum reforms greeted with outrage within Labour “The Home Secretary sounds like a Reform supporter,” said Nigel Farage. “Well done patriots,” said Tommy Roboinson. Shabana Mahmood’s proposed reforms to Britain’s immigration rules have drawn fulsome support from some obnoxious quarters…

Thank you Glyn.

URGENT: Plans to protect people & environment are on a knife-edge at the UN climate talks. Tell Ed Miliband to act now and champion a fairer future, where everyone benefits from the transition away from fossil fuels ✍️ #cop30 foe.uk/upx66

We are throwing vulnerable people under the bus to appease the far right. And it won’t even work - all we are doing is fuelling Reform and normalising cruel, divisive policies. It is truly shameful.

Policies like seizing asylum seekers’ jewellery, making refugees wait 20 years for permanent settlement, and deporting families after they’ve resettled here because their country is “deemed safe” are wrong on every level.

So the solution is… to join in? I'm afraid the “dark forces” are calling from inside the house at this point.

The government should be ashamed that its migration policies are being cheered on by Tommy Robinson and Reform. Instead of standing up to anti-migrant hate, this is laying the foundations for the far-right. I questioned the Home Secretary on how she can be proposing such obviously cruel policies.

“No amount of concessions will be enough for the forces of reaction” By Glyn Robbins I don’t usually share this story. But, on the day the Labour government (“a Labour government”) introduces laws that, when I was growing up in multi-ethnic East London, were the preserve of the National Front, I…

There should be no tax breaks in the budget for profiteering UK energy companies By End Fuel Poverty Coalition Energy giants have pocketed over £125 billion in profits on their UK operations since the energy crisis started according to an analysis of company reports. Around £40bn has been taken in…

That’s why “blue Labour” is doomed and was doomed from the start: you cannot make water run uphill. A party whose core electorate for over a decade has been socially liberal university graduates and ethnic minorities cannot sell itself as a party hostile to socially liberal values.

Labour can never be the party of those who reject the asylum principle. Hardline immigration conservatism is owned by the right. Low trust radical right voters will never believe an approach like this because they know it runs against grain of the party’s core electorate and history - so will fail

This dynamic, like the similar bait and switch we have seen on fiscal policy this week is worse than useless - it reinforces belief among naturally Lab leaning progressives that this iteration of the party is a hostile environment to their values. But it substitutes nothing else.

Labour seem to now come up with a new kamikaze nosedive operation to alienate social liberals while failing to attract Reform curious voters every month. Then back off again in face of anger from progressives and failure among social conservatives. A doom loop which may yet kill them off altogether.

Our bulletin #171: Seapeak sanction-busters stopped/ Russian army refusenik speaks in court/ Crimean Tatar genocide recognised/ Pokrovsk in danger/ Civilian front-line stories/ Social Movement appeal to workers/ Ukraine anger at corruption/ & more ukraine-solidarity.org/2025/11/16/n...

Tony Vaughan is one of the new MPs elected for Labour last year & in his contributions to Commons debates has displayed a considered approach to issues. He’s certainly not what the media would call a”usual suspect.”I suspect he is reflecting here what many in the PLP feel.

The Social and Affordable Homes Programme will not solve the housing crisis At the Spring Spending Review it was announced that the Labour Government's Social and Affordable Homes Programme, beginning in 2026, would have ten-year funding of £39 billion, though the Financial Times reported that…

WASPI women’s claim must be reconsidered in light of new evidence The National Pensioners Convention has called on the government to urgently rethink the state pension age compensation claims of millions of “WASPI women” after fresh evidence emerged. labourhub.org.uk/2025/11/16/w...

You can't pay the rent for long by selling your furniture ... This is a disastrous strategy caused by a decade and a half of austerity and underfunding www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The rule of law for whom? Private equity managers taxed at lower rates. NHS drugs prices be hiked by 25% to appease companies. Bankers' bonus cap abolished. Chancellor ready to override Supreme Court judgment, cut compensation to victims of car loan scandals. Bank frauds not investigated.

English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books. Social spaces lost forever. Libraries, community centres, school playgrounds, parks closed/sold as council funding cut in real terms to appease the rich. Social vandalism.

About 1m Ford diesel cars sold in UK with defective emissions controls. Company knew. Many were never formally recalled or fixed. Companies chase profits by lying, cheating. Yet neoliberals push for deregulation, less consumer rights. Hold execs personally liable.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/co...

Rampant landlordism and tenant resistance Ahead of two upcoming talks about her new book, Eviction: A Social History of Rent, Jessica Field explains how her own family’s battle led her to explore a history of housing struggles. My parents, brother and 69 neighbour households were finally evicted…

Serious times for serious people By Brian Creese These are hard times in which to be a Labour activist. Waking up on Wednesday to media glee at the outbreak of yet more infighting at the top of the Labour Party was frustrating and depressing, hardly the news we needed. This latest example of…

Reed orders MPs to vote against environmental protections insidecroydon.com/2025/11/14/r... #Croydon #InfrastructureBill @rspbengland.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk @elliechowns.bsky.social

The Government is in chaos of its own making. By adopting a pro-austerity fiscal framework and refusing to tax the rich, they have forced themselves into attacks on living standards which are morally and politically untenable. Time to tax the rich and genuinely end austerity.

Enforcing Britishness: from the ‘numbers game’ to far-right vigilantism A new report highlights the changing tactics of the far right – and the toxic mainstream political discourse on immigration that enables them. The Institute of Race Relations has published a new briefing paper, Enforcing…

Thanks for this generous review of our book. Looking forward to the launch event (in London & livestreamed) on Thu 20 Nov

News from CADFA The next Beyond the Checkpoints children's visit from Palestine starts next week. The Camden Abu Dis Friendship Association (CADFA) has been organising such visits for the last19 years but in the current context this is especially challenging. Eight young people will be coming…

Court of Appeal refuses Al-Haq permission to appeal regarding arms licences to Israel A statement by the Campaign Against the Arms Trade on yesterday’s judgment in the legal action taken by Palestinian human rights organisation Al Haq and UK-based Global Legal Action Network against Labour’s…

Speaking out against Putin from the dock Mike Phipps reviews Voices against Putin's war: Protesters’ defiant speeches in Russian courts, edited by Simon Pirani, published by Resistance Books. As John McDonnell MP says in the Foreword, “It’s a humbling experience to read the statements in this book…

Tanzania election killings: Outcry and calls for international investigations: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)