Compass’ public meeting on the Progressive Alliance at the 2019 Labour Party Conference in Brighton was dogged by an almost visceral refusal on the part of many of those present…
09 Jan, 2020
09 Jan, 2020
Compass’ public meeting on the Progressive Alliance at the 2019 Labour Party Conference in Brighton was dogged by an almost visceral refusal on the part of many of those present…
08 Jan, 2020
Doing more, much more, of the same won’t be enough – it’s time for a different, better Corbynism. Hastings and Rye, the final Sunday of the campaign. For the fourth…
23 Jul, 2019
We keep losing - because we keep reacting in the same way. No more! After Brexit and Trump we get the third instalment in the great moving-right-show: Boris Johnson. Take…
27 May, 2019
The European election results, when they came in, were bang on what had been predicted: the Brexit ‘Party’ triumphant, Labour and the Tories humiliated, the Lib Dems and Greens both…
08 May, 2019
Several of our members and supporters have been in touch to ask whether Compass will take the lead in a ‘progressive alliance’ campaign for the European elections in the UK,…
18 Feb, 2019
The announcement today that seven Labour MPs have renounced the whip and are setting up as independents comes as no surprise. The seven spoke of their personal reasons for leaving…
16 Nov, 2018
With all the talk of a possible general election it is worth reflecting on the possibilities for a Progressive Alliance. The Progressive Alliance (PA) reached maximum recognition at two points…
26 Jun, 2015
The story of the Scottish Labour Party was, until recently, one of the defining stories of Scotland over most of the 20th century. First there was its rise - the…
23 Mar, 2015
Red Ed. His opponents swear he is. Some of his supporters wish to God he was. For every Tory politician who claims that Labour has moved left under his leadership,…