Most of us have experienced nothing like this before. It is strange, forbidding and dislocating to a degree probably only experienced by those alive in the early 1940s. Events will…
16 Mar, 2020
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How would a Good Society look and feel? And how do we move towards it? Read our blog, comment, share and get involved in the debate.
11 Mar, 2020
It’s Bloody Complicated – A Compass Podcast
After huge set backs like Brexit and the last election, now is the time to find the space to think, talk and discuss what's gone wrong and how we put…
04 Mar, 2020
Feminist leaders are forging sustainable places and economies
In February 2020, Sir Michael Marmot launched his review on Inequalities and Health saying that ten years of austerity in the UK had taken its toll on children and that…
27 Feb, 2020
Citizen-Led Change
In every part of the UK, citizens, groups, organisations and public bodies are fighting back against the depressing and divisive politics that we have endured over recent years. Austerity, the…
26 Feb, 2020
From Little Acorns can an Alliance Oak Grow!
So, what do you do when local elections come around and you can pretty much predict the outcome? As we know, the electoral system works against smaller parties and to…
24 Feb, 2020
Cooperation is not a dirty word
Being on the Left means aspiring to a society built on cooperation, solidarity, and the common good. Yet when it campaigns for this society, the Left movement can be strangely…
21 Feb, 2020
Ten Books to Shake-Up 2020
Want to turn the world upside down in 2020? Philosophy Football’s Mark Perryman has found ten books to help us on the way. 1. Naomi Klein On Fire: The Burning Case for…
13 Feb, 2020
ACORN – the community union fighting the UK housing crisis
The article is the first in a series that will look at bottom-up, grassroots change happening across the country despite an unaccommodating Conservative government. Beyond Westminster, a cacophony of trial,…
04 Feb, 2020
What was Corbynism, and where now for Labour?
We should probably have answered the first question a long time ago, but it is difficult to understand something which is immediately compelling you to act. Now, as we move…
22 Jan, 2020
The Green Party needs a new way forward
It's not just Labour that needs a re-think after the 2019 general election result, argues Stephen Clark. Together with this article by Remco van der Stoep, a group of Green…
09 Jan, 2020
Labour and Proportional Representation
For the first time someone pitching to lead the Labour Party is demanding that it embrace proportional voting. Clive Lewis has not yet set out his stall in full. But…
09 Jan, 2020
Like it or not, Labour, but a Progressive Alliance means coming to terms with the Lib Dems
Compass’ public meeting on the Progressive Alliance at the 2019 Labour Party Conference in Brighton was dogged by an almost visceral refusal on the part of many of those present…