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Shallow, brief and very stupid The refusal to face up to the disastrous divisions caused by Brexit stems from referendum cretinism. Clive Dean of Labour Party Marxists reports on the May 9 meeting of LLA supporters Another ‘all-supporters meeting’ of the Labour Left Alliance was held last weekend. This was billed to last just two hours, and the agenda was restricted to three items: analysis of the local election results, attempts to coordinate the Labour left, and the forthcoming trade union elections. At the start of the meeting the chair, comrade Daniel Platts, remarked how it was unfor...

Fudge, muddle, clarity James Marshall of Labour Party Marxists provides a rough guide to the issues and arguments that will dominate the January 30 Zoom conference Another Labour Left Alliance conference; another massively overloaded agenda. Over the course of four hours (plus half an hour for lunch) we are going to debate the crisis in the Labour Party and decide what to do next. Doable, if the conference had been organised with a view to achieving clarity. Unfortunately that is not the case. The methods of the labour and trade union bureaucracy have been thoroughly internalised. There is a ...