ROGER HALLAM SHOWS HIS TRUE COLOURS: A NOTES FROM THE BORDERLAND EXCLUSIVE
By Heidi Svenson & Larry O’Hara 13.11.25 BACKGROUND An email popped into the boxes of ‘Assemble’ Supporters yesterday, and the...
LAST CENTURY LEFT AND BEYOND
‘Seizing The Power’: A Still-Relevant 1979 Big Flame Document on Revolutionary Strategy
INTRODUCTION & CONTEXT by Larry O’Hara 18/8/24 I was a member of revolutionary socialist organisation Big Flame in Coventry, Liverpool &...
ASSEMBLE/DISSEMBLE: THE YOUR PARTY NORWICH ASSEMBLY 19/10/25 by Larry O’Hara 21/10/25
Below is my account of what transpired at the first ever official meeting of Your Party (hereafter YP) members. It...
YOUR PARTY STRATEGY: SOME THOUGHTS by Larry O’Hara 24/9/25
Note to readers: we believe the internet reduces attention spans and is often too distracting to encourage readers to follow...
Patrick Maguire & Gabriel Pogrund ‘Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer’ (Bodley Head 2025: £25) Reviewed by Larry O’Hara (published in Labour Briefing April 2025)
INTRODUCTION While not the first book to cover Starmer’s 2024 election victory (that was Anoushka Asthana’s ‘Taken As Red’ reviewed...
Oliver Eagleton: The Starmer Project Verso 2022 £12.99 Reviewed by Larry O’Hara (published in Labour Briefing July 2022)
An important and useful book, even if not perfect (what is!). This no mere biography, but a forensic analysis of...
Anushka Asthana ‘Taken As Red’ Harper North 2024 £22 reviewed by Larry O’Hara
This review originally appeared in the November edition of Labour Left magazine Labour Briefing: to subscribe visit https://labourbriefingcooperative.net/ This is...
THE TRUSS EXPERIMENT: IT’S MEANING & PRECEDENT SET SEEN FROM LEFT FIELD
20/10/22: minor amendments made 21/10/22 & link added to start 12.11.22 Larry O’Hara To provide context to the article...
Mike Phipps ‘Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow: Labour After Jeremy Corbyn’ OR Books £20.62 2022 (first published in Labour Briefing October 2022)
Reviewed by Larry O’Hara This welcome book is a sober (but necessary) follow-up to Phipps previous book, ‘For The Many’,...
REVIEW OF OWEN JONES ‘THIS LAND’ & GABRIEL POGRUND and PATRICK MAGUIRE ‘LEFT OUT’
KICKING THE MOLTEN ASHES: A REVIEW OF GABRIEL POGRUND & PATRICK MAGUIRE ‘LEFT OUT: THE INSIDE STORY OF LABOUR UNDER...