Labour Left Podcast

Dec 05 2024 12 ep. 63 mins 10
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Are you desperate to kick out the Tories in 2024 and get behind every trade union dispute that declares Enough is Enough?… BUT despite your anger do you despair daily at Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership of the Labour Party and his outright hostility to the socialist wing of our party? Are you angry about Labour’s lack of support for those such as refugees and the LGBTQ+ community who most need our support? If you share our anger and despair, you are in the right place you will be listening to the new Labour Left Podcast produced in association with Labour Hub.

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Prof Harvey J Kaye - Why we need a history from below.

Dec 05 2024 62 mins  
In a treat for socialist historians the latest Labour Left Podcast explores why we need a bottom-up history with Prof Harvey J Kaye - who wrote the important book The British Marxist Historians. Harvey J Kaye is an important socialist figure, Christopher Hill described him as “easily the world’s greatest authority on the British Marxist historians” the group that actually co

Mish Rahman Labour Left Podcast

Oct 31 2024 58 mins  
Our latest guest on Labour Hub’s Labour Left Podcast is Mish Rahman and you can watch it https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6OoOmRsNNbCsHy_vtJ-Dl4KuHLIoOpI1 . Mish is a Momentum supporter, a working-class socialist of Bangladeshi heritage and he was elected to Labour’s National Executive back in 2020. Unfortunately, he lost his seat to the right wing of the Labour Party at

Andrew Fisher the Man Behind For the Many Not the Few

Sep 20 2024 65 mins  
On it’s first birthday the Labour Left Podcast, produced in association with Labour Hub, interviewed Andrew Fisher the man behind the iconic 2017 Labour Manifesto. The interview began by exploring the inside story behind For the Many Not the Few - the manifesto that Keir Starmer called our ‘foundational document.’ Andrew reveals to us how he ended up writing the manifesto, wh

Corinne Fowler

Jul 15 2024 66 mins  
Our guest Corinne Fowler, Professor of Colonialism and Heritage at the University of Leicester, specialises in colonial history, decolonisation and the British countryside’s relationship with the Empire. It’s fair to say that her most recent books Green Unpleasant Land: Creative Responses to Rural England’s Colonial Connections and Our Island Stories: Country Walks Through

Get Rid of the Tories!

Jun 05 2024 52 mins  
The Labour Left Podcast General Election Special with Momentum’s Rachel Godfrey Wood. Between now and the 4 July politics will be dominated by election fever. Millions of people will be drawn into political discussion and thousands of Labour Movement activists will be involved in the campaign to get rid of the Tories. Bryn Griffiths, of the Labour Left Podcast, spoke to Rachel Go

The Birth of Thatcherism - Jeremy Gilbert Interview with the Labour Left Podcast

Apr 30 2024 58 mins  
The Birth of Thatcherism Jeremy Gilbert Interview with the Labour Left Podcast Forty-five years ago, on 3 May 1979 Margaret Thatcher was elected. To mark the anniversary of the birth of Thatcherism Bryn Griffiths, the presenter of the Labour Left Podcast, sat down with Jeremy Gilbert to consider the birth of Thatcherism and Thatcher’s legacy. You can watch the Thatcherism Pod

Mike Phipps on the Labour Left Podcast

Apr 10 2024 115 mins  
British politics in 2024 will be increasingly dominated by the General Election. In the latest Labour Left Podcast Bryn Griffiths speaks to the Labour Hub co-editor Mike Phipps and they consider what a strategic left approach to the big year in the Labour calendar and beyond must look like. Dr Mike Phipps is a member of Queens Park and Maida Vale Labour Party who sits on the Campa

Mike Jackson of Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners on the Labour Left Podcast

Mar 06 2024 66 mins  
It is hard for veteran socialists amongst us to believe that March brings us to the fortieth anniversary of the start of the Miners’ strike when Thatcher sought to close Cortonwood. What followed was the Great Strike which defined and framed the political development of so many of us. You can watch the Labour Left Podcast on the anniversary of the strike on You Tube https://youtu

Labour Left Podcast with the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy's Rachel Garnham

Jan 30 2024 58 mins  
The latest Labour Left Podcast catches up with Rachel Garnham, the Co-Chair of the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy (CLPD), whilst she prepares for their fiftieth Annual General Meeting on 11 February 2024. Most of the content is timeless and of general interest to anyone who wishes to find out more about the CLPD. You can also watch the podcast on You Tube https://youtu.be/bibt

Hilary Schan Momentum Chair on the Labour Left Podcast

Nov 30 2023 55 mins  
This episode of the Labour Left Podcast is an interview with Hilary Schan, the Co-Chair of Momentum and a Worthing Councillor. Dave Lewney, a recent Chair of Hilary’s local Constituency Labour Party, described her as “the centre of gravity of the East Worthing and Shoreham Left.” I think we can safely say Hilary is one of the key figures on the Labour Left today. The intervi