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The economy debate: Join us tonight

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Last week, 2,500 people joined us on LabourList for our Live Blog of the second leaders' debate, and another 500 joined in our joint LiveChat with the New Statesman, Liberal Conspiracy and Left Foot Forward. This week, for the final debate on the economy, we'll be repeating and expanding our online and offline events -- with a live stream of the debate itself and instant photos and news from our joint debate watch and campaigning...
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Ground war and air war: The two campaigns

The Paul Richards column Yesterday afternoon I bumped into the excellent John Healey, Labour’s candidate for Wentworth and housing minister, at Manchester Piccadilly station. He told me about the seats he’d been campaigning in, the issues coming up on the doorsteps, and the Labour candidates he’d been supporting. A few minutes later, when both of us were on our separate trains, Gordon Brown arrived at the centre of a media circus, fresh from his penitent visit to Mrs Duffy’s house...
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Join us on Thursday in London or Manchester

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 After two successful joint debate watch and campaigning parties for the first two leaders' debates, we're putting on more joint events this Thursday - in London and in Manchester. Labour supporters at both parties will be battling it out to see who can make the most calls to voters, and then watching and discussing the debate. Please join us! Details are below: MANCHESTER EVENT: With LabourList, Manchester Young Labour, the Young Fabians, LGBT Labour NW,...
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We can all make a difference at the local level

By Chris Worsey It’s been nearly 4 months since I was selected to represent the Labour Party for a seat on the district council. The seat itself, Cannock West, is a something of a Tory stronghold. The last few elections the Conservative party have triumphed by a large majority. Cut despite running a start up business and studying for a Masters in Law part time, I jumped at the chance to stand. Since then I have done what most first...
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A United Society, not a Big Society: Obama's past could be Labour's future

By Sam Bacon From Barrack Obama to Oliver Letwin (try finding another sentence those two can happily share) the contribution community organisers can make to our politics and our society is steadily being recognised. But exactly what a community organiser does, and how our society, politics and party could be adapted from their experience hasn’t really been discussed properly. So in this, the first of two articles, I’m going to try to explain why, despite having a great idea at...
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Compass polls members on tactical voting

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Compass have tonight emailed their thousands of members asking whether they should support tactical voting in the general election to help keep the Tories out. If the "referendum" delivers a "yes" vote, Compass will encourage Labour supporters to vote Lib Dem in Lib Dem-Tory marginal seats, and Lib Dems to vote Labour in Labour-Tory marginals. It's a bold move that will not receive the support of all Labour members, but it's one which recognises the...
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Our journey: A brilliant Britain, a caring Britain

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Demands and Concessions: The perils of a Lib-Lab deal for our government and our party

The Paul Richards column Many believe a ‘hung parliament’ means the politicians burying their silly little differences, getting round the Cabinet table, and engaging in a kind of political love-in. Woodstock comes to Westminster. The reality is of course very different. People hate the compromise, horse-trading and skulduggery that even majority government entails. Hung parliaments elevate arm-twisting and bribery into a governing strategy. Even with a small majority after 1992, John Major was held to ransom by a cabal of Euro-sceptics...
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This is not a liberal moment, it's a pluralist moment - Labour must show it can be part of the change

The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter This is the change election. Yes, it has been said before. Yes, it will be said again. In fact, let me say it again. This is the change election. Belatedly, Labour seems to have realised that. It initially thought that it could ride through this election on the back of the recovery – assuming that is confirmed when growth figures come out on Friday – and fear of the Tories. This election, though, has become one about who...
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Join us for our second debate watch and campaigning party!

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Last week's TV debate between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg is being called a 'game changer' which has projected the Lib Dems into the limelight. 9.4 million people watched the debate, but none were having more fun than us at our debate watch party and campaigning session. This, the 2nd debate of the series, will give Labour an opportunity to put international issues at the centre of our election campaign. To help spread...
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New Labour must remember that its roots go beyond 1992 if we are to win again

By Emma Burnell In 1992 the Labour Party lost an election we had expected to win. This was over half my lifetime ago, and the repercussions are still being felt even now. “New Labour” can be an amorphous phrase, and everyone who uses it does so with their own, very different, definition in mind, so I’ll try to expand on what I mean when I say “New Labour” and why I know that the time has come (and is overdue)...
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Beware the hung parliament

By Paul Burgin / @Paul_Burgin Let's be honest, there is something cosy about the Lib Dems. The jumpers, the smiles, the mantra about breaking up the "tired two-party system" which resonates with those who are tired with the way things are politically. They also have some genuinely nice people involved who are clever and thoughtful (I can vouch for this as my girlfriend is a Lib Dem activist), and have insightful, if sometimes misguided, spokesmen like Vince Cable. So it...
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Don't judge my family...

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 A new, independent and non-partisan campaign, Don't Judge My Family has been launched in response to the Conservative proposal to give £3 a week to a third of married couples, which has come under fire from charities, campaigners and celebrities alike. The campaign has been inspired by J.K. Rowling's article in the Times this week, in which the author of the Harry Potter books wrote: “Maybe you know people who would legally bind themselves to...
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Same old Tories: Compass launch new web project

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Alongside their good work with Progress and LabourList in the David v Goliath campaign, Compass have today also launched a new website, Same Old Tories, with an ad on the Tories' "progressive" credentials based on David Cameron's embarrassing fumble in an interview with Gay Times magazine recently: The new project follows on from Compass' campaign to get people to sign up to a petition calling on David Cameron to sack Chris Grayling after the Tories'...
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David v Goliath: Our fightback against the Ashcroft millions

By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 At the beginning of March Progress launched the David v Goliath campaign. It's been a big success, raising thousands of pounds for some of Labour's great candidates fighting hard in constituencies targeted by Lord Ashcroft money. Today, the campaign is relaunching, with LabourList and Compass also now on board - and with a special twist. The candidate who receives the most donations before April 30th - of whatever amount, from £1 to £1,000 - will also...
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Labour Grassroots: Sharing our reasons

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Organise: 8 tips for a successful four weeks

By Sam Bacon In case anyone has been sat at home with their feet up for the last few months, we can now all officially say we’re in election mode, with the polling date but four weeks away today. Obviously this means campaign organisers up and down the country will be deploying every trick in the book to get voters to pledge their ‘X’ come May the 6th. But, like anyone that truly wants to win, they’ll also be looking...
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Labour Who's Who - 1970s style

The Paul Richards column One of the joys of spring-cleaning is the discovery of long-forgotten Labour ephemera. In amongst the back-issues of Marxism Today, Annual Conference reports from the 1950s and Fabian pamphlets I have unearthed a dog-eared publication, priced at five shillings, published by the Labour Party, Transport House. Labour’s Election Who’s Who was published in the last days before the 1970 general election, which Labour was widely predicted to win, but lost to the Tories. It served as...
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Winning on the doorstep: Compass plots a radical fourth term

By James Maker / @CompassOffice If David Cameron got anything right yesterday, it was his claim that the coming election is the most important for a generation. Conversely, however, it is the dangerous prospect of his election as Prime Minister that makes the poll on May 6th so decisive for Britain. As he stood opposite Westminster, looking over at Parliament like some distant outsider in a well rehearsed stage show, he posed as the moderniser, the man who had toppled...
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We know what real change is - and looking back and forward, only Labour has the answers

The Labour movement column By Anthony Painter /@anthonypainter David Cameron says that we need ‘real change.’ He is absolutely right. Having spent much of 2008 following, writing about, and experiencing a campaign for change, I’d like to think that I have a good sense of what change feels, smells, and tastes like. There was the candidate. He was different. There was the kinetic energy that moved millions. My first taste of the campaign was in a sports hall in Virginia. The people...
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