Eóin Murray’s work has appeared in Open Democracy and Electronic Intifada. He is the coeditor of Defending Hope, a book of essays by Palestinian and Israeli human rights defenders.
In Karla’s Choice, Nick Harkaway takes up his father John le Carré’s most enduring creation, returning George Smiley back to the Cold War’s morally gray trenches. The novel reminds us that clever tradecraft can’t fix what cowardly leaders break.
The aims of the Left are impossible to achieve without community of purpose. Socialists organize around economic justice for a reason: it is the essential foundation for building a sense of solidarity broad enough to drive meaningful change.