The global left is the only force that has the power to stay Israel’s hand
It’s tragic that Jews had to see their transition from powerlessness to power come at the price of another people’s…
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The left’s conservative turn
From Keir Starmer to Sahra Wagenknecht, a consensus of securonomics and social moderation is emerging.
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Jon Lansman: what the left gets wrong about Israel
The Momentum founder on his kibbutznik past, how progressives should respond to anti-Semitism and Jeremy Corbyn’s mistakes.
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Sahra Wagenknecht’s new left conservatism
Europe’s leaders are keenly watching the German breakaway party.
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Sahra Wagenknecht’s new left-populist party should be taken seriously
This is not a bunch of Trots but a well-prepared team with a clear agenda.
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Yanis Varoufakis: The Democrats are helping to elect Trump
The former Greek finance minister on his new book Technofeudalism and why the left keeps losing.
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The return of the two Germanys
The country is in economic and political crisis and parties of the extreme left and right are rising again.
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The dismal rise of the lobbyist left
In the US, UK, France and Spain, socialists have embraced horse-trading at the expense of building popular power.
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Syriza and the death of Eurocommunism
Stefanos Kasselakis’s takeover of the Greek left-wing party marks a traumatic break from their political traditions.
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My own special relationship with North America
Also this week: Meeting progressive peers in Montreal, and bridging divides in football and politics.
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The progressive dilemma
The anxieties and insecurities of the present moment are a formidable challenge for the centre left – in Britain and…
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The left has an England problem
A nation steeped in culture cannot be reduced to statistics and pop psychology.
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Where is the left’s New Deal?
Instead of accepting the right-wing economic orthodoxy, we should implement the radical reforms that rebuilt postwar UK and US.
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Ukraine must go to war with itself
Now is the time to confront oligarchs and cultural conservatives, and ask what sort of country Ukraine will become.
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Does Labour’s soft left have a future?
In the face of Starmer’s attacks, we can either slink off into political isolation or work together to reclaim our…
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Neal Lawson: the Labour Party is a bully
The director of Compass speaks out against his potential expulsion.
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Why the left is still losing
The right is at once more interested in ideas and ruthlessly pragmatic than its opposing wing.
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Can Zarah Sultana save the Labour left?
The 28-year-old socialist MP on her viral fame, social media abuse and Keir Starmer’s leadership.
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Why the left must abandon the myth of British decline
The declinist theories championed by Perry Anderson blame the problems of the present on an imagined past.
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