Responses
A round up of responses to Labour's Covenant from across the movement.
Who and what does Labour stand for?
Jon Cruddas MP writes for LabourList on what Labour’s Covenant means for the future direction of Labour.
Labour can renew the common life
Julian Coman argues in The Guardian that Labour should draw on its heritage to renew our concept of community.
A dilemma for Starmer
Professor Steve Fielding argues Labour's Covenant offers Keir Starmer a framework for articulating a positive vision.
Contract v. covenant
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite argues in Renewal that Labour must better balance liberalism and communitarianism.
What sort of party should Labour be?
Martin Shipman in Wales Online questions whether what been learned by Welsh Labour can be translated to a UK context.
Why is Labour so disconnected?
Louise Perry in The New Statesman argues for the need to bridge the gap between our party and the country.
The limits of communitarianism
James Stafford agues in Renewal that a more modest revival of green left-liberalism might be all we can hope for.
For land and nature in a time of floods
Cathy Elliot wrote in Renewal that Labour's Covenant begins a welcome focus on nature as a bridging concept.
Labour needs to think small
Marc Stears in The New Statesman argues that while promising the Covenant surrenders too much.
National self-sufficiency?
Tom Barker writes in Renewal that the Covenant falls short on the details of how to implement a "national economy".
Labour without the class struggle?
Nick Wright in the Morning Star argues that Labour's Covenant has sensible thinking but fails consider private ownership.
Morality, Culture and nation
Alex Campsie argues in Renewal the Covenant is limited by its conflation of neoliberalism with liberation politics.
Cold Wars and Class Wars
Frederick Harry Pitts argues in Futures of Work that shifts in geopolitics since the cold war will affect any modern national economy.
Ethos, anti-ethos … synthesis?
Richard McNeill Douglas argues that Labour's Covenant pulls together two distinct elements of Labour ideology to overcome the estrangement of ethos from policy.
