Faced with a Labour government which is resolutely set on ensconcing itself as a centre right nationalist party, it is time for the left to start making new connections, argues Michael Prior. Exlusively available online at ukwatch.net.

New Labour is dead. The New Tories are in the ascendancy. The left needs to look beyond its existing, inbred networks, writes Hilary Wainwright

Mark Evans looks at the educational priorities for a trade union movement struggling to revitalise itself.

Mark Evans outlines the ideas behind setting up The Project for a Participatory Society – United Kingdom (PPS-UK).

Davy Jones, a leading advocate of participatory budgeting, says the left needs to recognise and seize opportunities when and where they arise.