Throughout history, the labour movement has been at the forefront in demanding progressive change to address the big challenges of the era. Today, the UK faces a social, political and democratic crisis. Yet the democratic crisis – the breakdown of trust, the divide between the rulers and the ruled – has often gone ignored. 200 years ago in Manchester, tens […]

From the Chartists pushing for universal suffrage, to the Scottish TUC’s role campaigning for a Scottish Parliament, trade unions have often been at the forefront of demands for a democracy that puts working people at the centre. Join Politics for the Many, the trade union campaign for political reform, to discuss how trade unions can help build a better democracy. Featuring […]

Join Politics for the Many, the trade union campaign for political reform, for a panel discussion on creating a political system that works for workers. Featuring Jon Trickett MP, former MEP David Martin and Dr Jess Garland at Labour Party Conference. The event will include a buffet lunch.

Politics for the Many are delighted to launch The New Foundations, an important collection of essays at Open Labour’s 2021 Conference on 21st March. The British state is a legacy of an empire and society long since transformed by technological and social upheavals. So why hasn’t it evolved? In The New Foundations, a bold new collection of essays, thinkers from […]

The Road to Conference: Why PR? Why now? How to make it happen! With Proportional Representation shaping up to be one of the biggest issues at Labour conference this year, join us for the launch of the Labour for a New Democracy Roadshow - a season of online events about why electoral reform is critical to delivering the Labour Party's […]

The purely democratic problems with First Past the Post are widely known. What's less well understood is the profound implications it has for progressive parties, voters and politics. Renown academics Jonathan Rodden and Rob Ford join Debbie Abrahams MPs to explore these issues. Why does First Past the Post have a right wing bias? How can Proportional Representation level the […]

With politicians like Donald Trump, Victor Orban and Boris Johnson taking unbridled power under winner-takes-all systems, it's time for a look at how first past the post hands power to extremists. Join us for our fourth Roadshow event, featuring Billy Bragg, MPs Rachael Maskell and Stephen Kinnock and LCER's Maria Iacovou - chaired by Compass' Frances Foley. We'll be discussing […]

Is our current system really the best way to achieve radical policies like the Green New Deal, or can a new democracy get us there faster? Join the discussion at this event co-hosted with Momentum. Featuring an open discussion including Clive Lewis MP, trade union climate activist Sam Mason, American academic Salomon Orellana, chaired by Momentum's Ana Oppenheim. Book here: […]

The powerful levers of the state are being used to undo rights and freedoms, attack communities and lock people out of their democratic rights. Growing mistrust of politics and politicians is opening the door to a resurgent authoritarian right. Empowerment is perhaps the most important thing the trade union movement can offer people. Only by putting democracy at the heart […]

Join Labour for a New Democracy for Why First Past the Post doesn’t add up for Labour. At its founding, the Labour Party was committed to Proportional Representation. But as Labour came to replace the Liberals as the second party of British politics, it came to embrace First Past the Post. Yet over the century that followed, FPTP has delivered neither the fair […]