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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 19/07/2026

New on the ‘Road Bloc’ blog: Burnham or bust? The left needs independence

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 17/05/2026

New on ‘Road Bloc’ No coronation The left and the unions need a candidate in a full Labour leadership contest

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 20/02/2026

Amassing and assembling What will Your Party do next? On its branches and assemblies

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 04/01/2026

New on the ‘Road Bloc’: It’s Your Party and I’ll cry if I want to…

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 27/10/2025

New on ‘Road Bloc’: Labour’s Mainstream? The ‘soft left’, its position in the working class movement, and the new alliancism

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 27/07/2025

It’s Your Party What does it mean for Starmer’s Labour? And can it achieve its goals?

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 13/07/2025

I have surveyed the response across the left to Zarah Sultana’s announcement that she is leaving Labour to co-lead the creation of a new party with Jeremy Corbyn. Link in comments.

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America Really Shouldn't Exist @a-r-s-e.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Good analysis of the ways different sections of the Left are responding to the announcement of a new party by Sultana by @anselleade.substack.com open.substack.com/pub/ansellea...

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Sultana Plan

A new left party in Britain?

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 01/06/2025

Zack Polanski on whether unions will stick with Labour or back the Greens, speaking to @curtisdaly.bsky.social of @turnleftmedia.co.uk

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 01/06/2025

Stay in Labour and fight or join the Greens and #backZack? In an interview with @curtisdaly.bsky.social on @turnleftmedia.co.uk Green Party leadership candidate Zack Polanski commented on John McDonnell, who this week called for a Labour leadership challenge to Keir Starmer:

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 11/05/2025

New on ‘Road Bloc’: Zack to the future Are we all Polanski-ites now? anselleade.substack.com/p/zack-to-th...

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 22/04/2025

On ‘Road Bloc’: Learning from Lenin Why we need his Erfurtianism today

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 20/04/2025

New on ‘Road Bloc’: Rebranding the revolution Can we use different labels yet keep the same programme?

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 16/04/2025

I have a letter in this week’s @socialistworker.bsky.social It responds to an article on electoral strategy by @tomashtengely.bsky.social I agree with Tomáš & the SWP, a “broad-based, pluralist umbrella” is needed to intervene in elections. Next step: a delegate conference of left organisations.

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 14/04/2025

Good bit on the Socialist Alliance: “At the start, the idea of a genuine left-wing unity pulled in hundreds of activists who had been distanced from the left. That initial energy was not sustained – but the start at least was encouraging.” We can do this again - and sustain it!

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 10/04/2025

Good to see @climatevanguard.bsky.social taking part in this discussion on the party question.

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Prometheus Magazine @prometheusmagazine.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Les P Litts reports from the We Demand Change summit and ponders what should be the next steps for the left in Britain? prometheusjournal.org/2025/04/04/c...

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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

💷 Meet the Billionaire 💷 This is Michael Platt, the richest man in the UK. Wouldn't it be good free up that cash to do something useful? #greenparty #billionaires #politics #taxwealthnotwork

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 09/04/2025

Good point here about how the We Demand Change summit united trade unionists and campaigners who support different parties (or none) and that future summits must do the same. I think what’s needed is a separate delegate conference of left groups to form an electoral alliance…

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 05/04/2025

This was a good intervention from the floor at the ‘party time’ session at the #WeDemandChange summit. It is a proposal that Collective may be best placed to undertake, having coordinated the independent leftwing challenges in the general election last year.

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 31/03/2025

Sounds like Britain is going to be hit by Trump’s tariffs. There are measures beyond retaliatory tariffs which Britain can threaten: - End all US operations in Britain, close their bases. - End UK military support for US foreign policy. If these aren’t on the table, why not?

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 26/03/2025

There’ll have to be open letters published over the coming weeks with signatories calling for Starmer to go: One from remaining Labour Left members to push the party’s elected officials to speak out. Another more important one, from elected reps in the Labour-affiliated unions.

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 24/03/2025

We’re supposed to believe the rich will leave if taxed more, so let them grow the economy. Ok, but that’s not been happening? We’re supposed to accept public spending cuts, deregulation. Yet we’ve had years of that - and slow growth? Britain needs public investment, not cuts.

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 24/03/2025

Investors are supposed to believe 100s of Labour MPs are going to hold the line on billions of cuts - making virtually all UK households poorer - without cracking and using their power to sack the government. Now, we on the left believe most of these MPs are cowards. But do investors believe that?

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 24/03/2025

Labour could’ve ripped the bandage off last year: A big public investment programme to stimulate growth. They could still do this. But they won’t. They’re led by people who are paid saboteurs. Yet we can’t even assume ‘the markets’ will think ‘Labour does four years of austerity’ is credible!

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 19/03/2025

There are local and mayoral elections in England this May. That’s an opportunity to ask the candidates where they stand on cuts to people with disabilities. They must be made to speak out - charities and unions can take action on this. No opposition to austerity, no votes!

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 19/03/2025

The current Labour government is led by a faction which is corrupted by donations from the rich and big businesses. But even if Starmer, Reeves, McSweeney and the rest of the Labour Right can be swept away and replaced by the Labour Left there will be huge resistance from above.

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 19/03/2025

This moral case is opposed by Britain’s ruling class. They don’t want to invest here because they make bigger profits overseas. Relying on the rich and big businesses to grow the economy is something a government would only do if it was full of people who are stupid or corrupt.

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 19/03/2025

There is a moral case for economic planning. A workers’ government could draw up a plan to defend living standards and revive the economy. Britain needs public ownership in strategic sectors - like banking, house-building, and utilities - with price controls on essential goods.

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 19/03/2025

People are asking Labour MPs to quit. They won’t. Better to ask them to do this: Vote against cuts. Prepare a statement for May 1st with other Labour MPs. As soon as polls close for local elections on that day, issue the demand: “Starmer must change course or we’ll back a leadership challenge.”

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 14/03/2025

Worth your time: “Leaving the means of production firmly in private hands was precisely what enabled capital to unpick Labourist reforms when a crisis of sufficient magnitude presented the opportunity.”

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Prometheus Magazine @prometheusmagazine.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Dave Kellaway of @anticapitalistresistance.org discusses what kind of strategy the left can adopt now and if the Labour Party holds any opportunities. prometheusjournal.org/2025/03/12/t...

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 09/03/2025

It’s good to hear that this invitation is being made. Is there a source in the public domain for this news?

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Prometheus Magazine @prometheusmagazine.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Michael Chessum, author of "This Is Only The Beginning", looks at the need for internal democracy within any future left organisation. prometheusjournal.org/2025/02/27/d...

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Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 16/02/2025

New on ‘Road Bloc’: One Big Alliance? Towards a mass party anselleade.substack.com/p/one-big-al...

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One Big Alliance?

Towards a mass party

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