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Ansell Eade
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Marxist. Interested in Kautskyism before he became a renegade, Eurocommunism before it liquidated, and a democratic anti-monopoly alliance before it is too late

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New on ‘Road Bloc’:

Labour’s Mainstream?

The ‘soft left’, its position in the working class movement, and the new alliancism
October 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
It’s Your Party

What does it mean for Starmer’s Labour?

And can it achieve its goals?
July 27, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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.
July 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Zack Polanski on whether unions will stick with Labour or back the Greens, speaking to @curtisdaly.bsky.social of @turnleftmedia.co.uk
June 1, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Zack Polanski on Labour’s next leader, speaking to @curtisdaly.bsky.social of @turnleftmedia.co.uk
June 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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:
June 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
New on ‘Road Bloc’:

Zack to the future

Are we all Polanski-ites now?

anselleade.substack.com/p/zack-to-th...
May 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
On ‘Road Bloc’:

Learning from Lenin

Why we need his Erfurtianism today
April 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
New on ‘Road Bloc’:

Rebranding the revolution

Can we use different labels yet keep the same programme?
April 20, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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.
April 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
April 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This was a good intervention from the floor at the ‘party time’ session at the #WeDemandChange summit.

It is a proposal that Collective may be best placed to undertake, having coordinated the independent leftwing challenges in the general election last year.
April 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Worth your time:

“Leaving the means of production firmly in private hands was precisely what enabled capital to unpick Labourist reforms when a crisis of sufficient magnitude presented the opportunity.”
March 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Good to read Mike Macnair’s criticism of my @prometheusjournal.bsky.social article in his latest piece for @weeklyworker.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Owen Jones makes the case for electoral alliances on the left.
February 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
New on ‘Road Bloc’

On the Road

The relevance of “Britain’s Road to Socialism”

anselleade.substack.com/p/on-the-road
June 30, 2024 at 4:22 AM
New on ‘Road Bloc’:

“Declare independence?”

On being independent from Labour’s leadership

anselleade.substack.com/p/declare-in...
February 11, 2024 at 12:12 AM
New on ‘Road Bloc’:

Learning from Lenin

Why we need his Erfurtianism today

anselleade.substack.com/p/learning-f...
January 28, 2024 at 8:47 AM
New post on Road Bloc:

“Are you broad of this?”

Broad-frontism and the new mass workers’ party we need

anselleade.substack.com/p/are-you-br...
November 12, 2023 at 2:24 PM