Labour Left Podcast

Andy Burnham has got us all talking about Proportional Representation (PR) and so we should be if we want to stop Nigel Farage marching into Downing Street with his own “wide but shallow parliamentary majority”. Bryn Griffiths of the  Labour Left Podcast  interviews Sandy Martin, the Chair of the Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform, to consider what we need to do to get PR done. The possibility o...

How Do We Stop Farage and the Far Right? The David Renton interview After the massive Together March in London, on 28th March 2026, it is  exactly the right moment for the  Labour Left Podcast , introduced here by  Bryn Griffiths , to interview  David Renton  and take a deep dive into the far right. David Renton, our guest, is a barrister who specialises in trade union rights and free speech and h...

In the latest  Labour Left Podcast , introduced here by  Bryn Griffiths , Paul Holden the author of The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney, and the Crisis of British Democracy explains what the shadowy Labour Together group did to the Labour Party and how they inflicted their big fraud on the Labour membership. Ten Pledges In 2020 Keir Starmer stood for the Labour Party leadership and made ten...

Zohran Mamdani On the 1 January 2026 Zohran Mamdani takes office as New York’s first ever Democratic Socialist Mayor. Bryn Griffiths of the Labour Left Podcast sat down with Professor Theodore Hamm to ask him how Zohran got elected and to consider what will happen next. To help us answer these questions, about possibly the biggest success of the international left in 2025, Bryn interviewed Profess...

n the latest edition of the  ⁠Labour Left Podcast⁠  Bryn Griffiths of  Labour Hub  talks to Bell Ribeiro-Addy of the Socialist Campaign Group about fighting racism within parliament  . Bell entered parliament in 2019 as the Corbyn period drew to a close within the Labour Party.  She entered the Parliamentary Labour Party alongside numerous other new excellent socialists such as Nadia Whittome, Aps...

In the latest edition of the  Labour Left Podcast  Bryn Griffiths talks to Mark Perryman the editor of the best book on Keir Starmer so far,  The Starmer Symptom. Mark comes from a different political place to me so I really looked forward to our discussion. In the 1980s I was supporting Tony Benn alongside Jeremy Corbyn and selling  Brighton Labour Briefing  in my local Labour Party.   Meanwhile...

In the Labour Conference 2025  Labour Left Podcast  edition Bryn Griffiths speaks to the Labour left leader John McDonnell of the Socialist Campaign Group. The in-depth interview with John explores what thinking lies behind his decades of socialist activity.  It arguably gives us the deepest understanding yet of John’s political practice as a truly organic intellectual. We start by talking about h...

In the latest episode of the  Labour Left Podcast  Bryn Griffiths speaks to the prominent socialist feminist Lynne Segal.   Veteran socialists will remember the huge impact that  Beyond the Fragments , published in 1979 and co-authored by Lynne Segal and her socialist sisters Hilary Wainright and Sheila Rowbotham, had upon us.  Many of us would count the book amongst those which politically formed...

 In the latest episode of the Labour Left Podcast Bryn Griffiths speaks to Richard Burgon, the Secretary of the Socialist Campaign Group of Labour MPs, on the theme of the class struggle in Parliament and the historical role of the Labour Left.    The podcast frames Richard Burgon’s politics with the title of the late Eric Heffer MP’s fine book  The Class Struggle in Parliament  written in 1973.  ...

Geoff Bell Labour for Irish Unity on the Labour Left Podcast The Fight For a United Ireland   Geoff Bell  is an outstanding historian of the troubles; but more than that he has many decades of experience as an Irish activist in Britain fighting for a united Ireland.  His most famous book, published in 1976, and reprinted five times is the  Protestants of Ulster .  More recently he has published  H...

Since the 1980s, the Labour left has been divided by a split between its hard and soft wings.  In the light of the Labour right’s new and brutal ascendancy, is it time for the two sides to think the unthinkable and at least have a conversation?   Bryn Griffiths , the presenter of the Labour Left Podcast sits down with  Neal Lawson , of Compass, to ask: has the time come to try and heal some of the...

It is more important than ever, for the Labour Left, to have a route map to navigate the issue of antisemitism.  Bryn Griffiths, the presenter of the  Labour Left Podcast  sat down with Rachel Shabi to consider the truth about antisemitism.  Some readers might be desperate to move on from antisemitism, the issue that bedevilled the Labour Left during the Corbyn period, but they would be very wrong...

The first episode of the  Labour Left Podcast ,  in 2025, takes a deep dive into the subject of Gaza with Bernard Regan of the  Palestine Solidarity Campaign.    We ask the big question: how do we build the broadest possible solidarity with the Palestinian people in 2025? We could not be asking the question at a better time as the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign AGM takes place on Saturday 1st Feb...

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 coined the important...

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 this year’s Confer...

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, what was in his mind whe...

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 Colonial Britain have...

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 Godfrey Wood of M...

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 Podcast on You Tube https...

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 Campaign for Labour Pa...

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://youtube.com/playlist?l...

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/bibtVyTHrz0?si=w0ua...

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 interview starts with Hilary...

Labour Hub is supporting the launch of the Labour Left podcast .  You can watch the podcast on You Tube or listen to it as a podcast here. We have submitted the podcast to all the main podcast channels so we hope to see it there soon as well. The Labour Party Conference edition of the Labour Left Podcast is a long form interview with the Labour Hub writer and former Labour National Executive Commi...

Labour Hub is supporting the launch of the Labour Left Podcast which will appear on all your favourite podcast providers’ platforms and as a video on YouTube.  Bryn Griffiths , a regular Labour Hub contributor, sets out below what it is all about and how you can get to listen to it. We started the trial episode by setting out our stall in the opening introduction.  “Are you desperate to kick out t...