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It has been announced today that Marcus Roberts will be the new Deputy General Secretary of the Fabian Society.
Previously Marcus served as Field Director of the Ed Miliband for Leader campaign and was Campaign Manager for Rushanara Ali's 2010 Bethnal Green & Bow election. He is a Founding Partner of Zentrum Consulting and also worked on the Al Gore, John Kerry and Barack Obama US presidential campaigns. He has previously contributed to Fabian Society events and publications on movement politics and party reform and worked on the Refounding Labour consultation.
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A day earlier than expected, below are the final results for the Fabian and Young Fabian Executive. Congratulations to everyone who made it and commiserations to those that didn't. In the final reckoning there were only 4 votes in it for the Fabian Exec and just one single vote in the Young Fabian race.
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 Sunder Katwala will leave the Fabian Society this summer to take on a new role, as founding director of the Social Justice Communications Agency, which will challenge hostile attitudes to migrants and immigration.
A recruitment process for a new General Secretary is now underway, the results of which will be announced in due course.
Writing on the Next Left blog, Sunder said: "I have very much enjoyed leading the Fabians - which is one of the reasons I’ve been doing the job for over seven years now – and working with brilliant colleagues on the staff team and across the Fabian Society.
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 The five candidates for the Labour leadership have written Fabian Essays on how important it is that the party has a distinctive ideology, as well as answering a selection of questions submitted by Fabian members and contributors online.
In the essays, Diane Abbott argues that, without ideology, the Labour front bench would be in danger of becoming "freelance management consultants", Ed Balls says that 2010 voters thought Labour no longer "championed a fair society", Andy Burnham admits that "we seemed dazzled by power, glamour and big business", David Miliband argues that despite Osborne's "masochism", Labour mustn't deny "economic reality", and, according to Ed Miliband, "old-fashioned New Labour is now an obstacle to winning next election".
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 Andrew Harrop has taken up his new post as General Secretary at the Fabian Society.
Andrew was previously Director of Policy and Public Affairs for Age UK, where he lead the charity's policy, public affairs, campaigns and events teams. Before that, he worked for Age Concern, the New Policy Institute and Anne Campbell MP. He has been a Labour Party activist since 18 and was a Parliamentary Candidate in the 2005 General Election.
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 Many low-income families with children are set to lose from tax-and-benefit reform.
New analysis by the Fabian Society and Landman Economics of George Osborne's March Budget suggests that many single-earner families with children and families claiming help with childcare costs will be the big losers from the Coalition’s tax-and-benefit reforms over the next couple of years.
And despite Government rhetoric about ‘lifting the poorest out of tax’, many low-income families are set to become bigger contributors to the Exchequer too.
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