The defeat of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn and the ascension of Joe Biden and Keir Starmer hasn’t just meant the defeat of domestic working-class politics — it’s meant the defeat of an egalitarian internationalism that opposes war and imperialism.
Keir Starmer has cynically used the Ukraine crisis to pick a fight with his left-wing opponents. The Labour leader’s denunciation of antiwar activists will reinforce McCarthyite attitudes toward dissent and make fresh disasters like Iraq and Afghanistan more likely.
Socialist filmmaker Ken Loach has released his final movie, about Syrian refugees finding their feet in an English working-class community. It makes it all the more grotesque that Loach’s political foes are trying to present him as a dangerous bigot.
Thomas Mulcair’s ouster provides an opening for left activists inside and outside Canada’s New Democratic Party.
Diane Abbott on her life on the Left, the debate over migration, and her hopes for the future of the Corbyn project.
Here’s another crazy socialist idea: seniors deserve to feel cared for and socially connected. Bernie Sanders has a plan for that.
The border controversy is just the latest episode in the epic of Britain’s political establishment and their willful ignorance of Ireland.
This election campaign has marked a grim milestone in British political history: a pathological liar in Downing Street, Boris Johnson, has run a campaign in which all standards of honesty and accuracy have been tossed aside — and a ferociously partisan media has done everything it can to cover it up.
A Very British Coup embraced the intrigues of class war, but its sequel falls prey to the mundanities of culture war.
In both Britain and the United States, a resurgent political center has declared war on the Left. But establishment politics and pro-corporate measures will only deepen the present crisis.
Last April, Keir Starmer was elected party leader on a promise to make Labour a “real opposition” again. Yet instead of pushing back on a dangerous right-wing government, he’s decided to make the socialist left his main enemy.
The Forde report, an inquiry into antisemitism within the Labour Party, has found that the Right cynically used accusations of racism to undermine the Left. In the two years since it was commissioned, nothing has changed.
During his tenure as Labour Party leader, Keir Starmer has waged an aggressive war against the party’s left flank. Now, his leadership is blatantly and undemocratically blocking left-wingers from becoming party candidates for Parliament.
In the 1990s, Tony Blair and his circle “modernized” the British Labour Party by minimizing the power of members and embracing neoliberal dogmas. But it was the prior hollowing out of the party’s institutions that allowed New Labour to come to power.
Since running Keir Starmer’s leadership campaign, the think tank Labour Together has raised massive amounts of money from businessmen who aim to shape the Labour Party’s leadership and policies to benefit the megarich.
One place where Bernie could've learned from Jezza — foreign policy.
Four years ago, Tony Benn's politics were pronounced dead along with him. Now they reign.
The pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) is key to the fight against Turkey’s brutal Erdoğan regime. But its struggle is also about building a different kind of world order.
The attacks on Ilhan Omar mirror the bid to paint Jeremy Corbyn as an enemy of Jews. The Labour Party’s recent history tells US socialists how we can resist such smears — while also fighting antisemitism.
Media pundits and Tory messaging wizards prefer to engage in endless chatter about meaningless Westminster ephemera. But Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour does best when it focuses on concrete policies that improve people’s lives.