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Renewal
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A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.

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New on Renewal Online: what can Sutan Sjahrir and the Indonesian Socialist Party of the 1940s and 1950s teach us about political education today?

renewal.org.uk/blog/when-po...
October 17, 2025 at 1:00 PM
"It’s good to see the energy around the desire to ‘disrupt’ the state’s status quo, championed by ministers like Josh Simons and the influential Labour Growth Group. But this needs to go beyond rebuilding executive power, however important that is." - @ben-glover.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
"Labour is going to attempt to supersede rather than cast aside the revival of national and community politics on the right" - @parth0.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
"If the Secure Zone was testament to the 'hollowing' of Labour as a mass membership organisation, the baying mob of anti-digital ID protestors outside was a glimpse at the other end of Peter Mair’s void" - @dmk1793.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
"The mood music going in to conference could not have been worse for the leadership, but by the time The Red Flag had been sung on Wednesday morning, the atmosphere was positively chipper" - @morganj0nes.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
September 29, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Labour Party conference's most stylish accessory - modelled here by @imogenshaw.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
September 17, 2025 at 9:10 AM
September 17, 2025 at 9:05 AM
“As social democrats we must be clear that AI is ultimately parasitic on our collective endeavours”
September 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
We are pleased to announce the title of Anneliese Dodds's Rita Hinden Memorial Lecture this coming Tuesday 9th September:

"Why Labour mustn't lose: social democracy vs the bros"

Tickets are still available, and can be booked for free here: www.eventbrite.com/e/renewal-pr...
September 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Renewal is excited to announce Dr. Anneliese Dodds MP as the inaugural speaker for our new annual Rita Hinden Memorial Lecture.

The Lecture will be held on Tuesday 9th September at City St. George's University.

Register for free here: www.eventbrite.com/e/renewal-pr...?
August 15, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Renewal contributing editor @sachahilhorst.bsky.social's ethnographic work on Mansfield is cited in @will-davies.bsky.social's latest LRB essay on Farageist TikTok
June 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Great to see the interview with @andyburnham.bsky.social in our most recent issue referenced in @johnharris1969.bsky.social's latest piece in @theguardian.com:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
June 16, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Pleased to see our packed re-launch party written up in @politico.com London Playbook this morning - the "nerdiest room in the Labour Party" as @jeevunsandher.bsky.social aptly put it
June 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Nick Garland (@npjgarland.bsky.social): Social democrats need to regain their conviction as moral storytellers
May 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Morgan Jones (@morganj0nes.bsky.social): Social democracy is true
May 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Karl Pike (@karlpike.bsky.social): Social democracy is about equality
May 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
James Stafford: Social democracy takes the world as it is
May 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Jack Jeffrey: Social democracy has failed to distinguish itself from centrism
May 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite: There is no social democratic golden age to look back to
May 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Eunice Goes (@eunicegoes.bsky.social): Social democracy needs a critique of capitalism
May 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Emily Robinson (@emilyrobinson.bsky.social): To be a social democrat is to believe people are social
May 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
David Klemperer (@dmk1793.bsky.social): Social democracy is both post-Marxist and post-liberal
May 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Craig Berry (@craigpberry.bsky.social): Social democracy is about the state
May 31, 2025 at 5:52 PM