Statement from Politics for the Many, 19th April, 2019: Conservative candidates are set to walk away with 267 seats before voters get to the polls in May due to uncontested ‘elections’ according to new analysis by the Electoral Reform Society. The research published found this figure compares to just 17 guaranteed seats for Labour, the Lib Dems 11 and independent …
Continue readingScottish Labour delegates packed into a fringe event on democratic reform on the weekend, co-sponsored by Unison Labour Link, the Red Paper Collective and Politics for the Many.
Continue readingJeremy Corbyn’s former trade union adviser will call for Labour to embrace an overhaul of Westminster to give ‘power to the many’, at Momentum’s ‘The World Transformed’ Conference on Sunday.
Continue readingTrade unionists have thrown down a challenge to Westminster’s political set-up, as leading activists launch a new report setting out the need for change.
Continue readingThe trade union movement has always been at the vanguard of political change in Britain. And furthering economic equality goes hand in hand with political institutions that deepen political equality. To ignore the role of the political system (which concentrates political power in a minority of voters in a minority of seats) in driving political inequality, is to miss the …
Continue readingTrade unionists seeking ‘root and branch reform’ of British politics have joined forces in a bid to bring about democratic change.
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