Author | Lightnews

Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · 17h

New on ‘Road Bloc’:

Labour’s Mainstream?

The ‘soft left’, its position in the working class movement, and the new alliancism

open.substack.com/pub/ansellea...

Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Jul 27

It’s Your Party

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

open.substack.com

anselleade.substack.com/p/sultana-plan

Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Jul 27

It’s Your Party

What does it mean for Starmer’s Labour?

And can it achieve its goals?

1 1

Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Jul 13

Sultana Plan

A new left party in Britain?

A new left party in Britain?

1 1

Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Jul 13

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.

1 3

Reposted by Ansell Eade

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

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...

Sultana Plan

open.substack.com

1 1 5

Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Jun 1

Watch the full interview here: youtu.be/xR-pnE4dQT0?...

Zack Polanski Makes His Leadership Pitch | Full Interview

YouTube video by Turn Left

youtu.be

Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Jun 1

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

Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Jun 1

Zack Polanski on Labour’s next leader, speaking to @curtisdaly.bsky.social of @turnleftmedia.co.uk

Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Jun 1

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:

4 3

Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · May 23

That’s your voter base.

Why we need his Erfurtianism today

Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · May 11

New on ‘Road Bloc’:

Zack to the future

Are we all Polanski-ites now?

anselleade.substack.com/p/zack-to-th...

Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Apr 22

Link: anselleade.substack.com/p/learning-f...

Learning from Lenin

Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Apr 22

On ‘Road Bloc’:

Learning from Lenin

Why we need his Erfurtianism today

anselleade.substack.com/p/rebranding...

Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Apr 20

Rebranding the revolution

Can we use different labels yet keep the same programme?

Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Apr 20

New on ‘Road Bloc’:

Rebranding the revolution

Can we use different labels yet keep the same programme?

https://prometheusjournal.org/2024/12/11/one-big-party/

Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Apr 16

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.

1 2

Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Apr 14

As I argue here:

prometheusjournal.org/2024/12/11/o...

t.co

(The post below is extracted from an internal bulletin article I wrote for my group, rs21. I have not included the passages in which I describe rs21, or those in which I put the case for merging wi…

Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Apr 14

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!

DK Renton @davidkr.bsky.social · Apr 13

A piece making the case for far left groups to take much more seriously the possibility of merging with their allies

livesrunning.wordpress.com/2025/04/13/o...

On revolutionary mergers

livesrunning.wordpress.com

1 1

Ansell Eade @anselleade.substack.com · Apr 10

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

Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · Apr 10

Climate Vanguard @climatevanguard.bsky.social present their perspective on the mass left party and its functions and how it can intervene and agitate for eco-socialism.

prometheusjournal.org/2025/04/09/t...

Reposted by Ansell Eade

Prometheus Journal @prometheusjournal.bsky.social · Apr 7

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...