When Trotsky took on Keir Starmer
A century ago, the original contradiction of the Labour party was already tearing it apart
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How not to talk about capitalism
The more it penetrates our daily lives, the less we seem to understand the “system that runs the world”
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How the left misread Gramsci
We are living in the Italian Marxist thinker’s interregnum
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Britain’s young communists are ready for revolution
Among the radicals at Revolution Festival
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Zygmunt Bauman’s liquid politics
On his centenary, Bauman’s pessimistic utopianism is a lesson for the left – and the Labour Party
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The price of revolution
Jason Burke chronicles how radical activists in the 1970s found violent new ways to pursue their causes
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From the archive: A state of boredom
February 1978: Clive James reviews the official biography of Leonid Brezhnev.
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The left’s losing streak
Why populists keep winning and what progressives should do about it.
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The thwarted Marxist of Balliol
Christopher Hill was much better at analysing the revolution than he was at fomenting one.
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Making China great again
The former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd writes that Xi Jinping has embraced an assertive nationalism that aims to put…
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Fredric Jameson’s capitalist horror show
We still live in the postmodern landscape defined by the Marxist thinker, who died this month.
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Éric Hazan, rebel publisher
The leading French thinker has died aged 87. His cosmopolitan ease and intellectual industry is an example to the left.
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The Marx whisperer
The geographer David Harvey’s videos on Capital have made him an internet intellectual. But he has been observing the carnage…
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Why Marx is more relevant than ever in the age of automation
On the bicentenary of his birth, Marx continues to be a key thinker thanks to his surprising faith in the individual.
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China Miéville: “If you don’t feel despair, you’re not opening your eyes”
The fantasy novelist and left activist on why Marx’s Communist Manifesto speaks to the crisis-ridden politics of the present.
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