Boris Johnson has been brought down by Tory ministers who damn his lack of integrity. But the obsessive focus on his personal conduct obscures his disastrous political record — one that Keir Starmer’s Labour also isn’t challenging.
The riots in Brazil have drawn Jan. 6 comparisons, but they’re even more reminiscent of a different episode: the Bolivian coup that liberals misguidedly backed. Another big difference from Jan. 6: Brazil is actually prosecuting its high-level coup plotters.
The Chinese model of state-directed capitalism is coming apart — and it’s unleashing a new authoritarianism.
Amid a brutal cost-of-living crisis after decades of austerity, popular support for progressive economic policy is the highest it’s been in years. Yet Keir Starmer’s Labour Party refuses to deliver — because it’s afraid of empowering workers.
Protests in the UK are at a low by historical standards. Yet Labour and Conservatives insist that bans on civil liberties are needed to protect public order. In truth, the UK’s authoritarian turn is a response to its economic stagnation and decline.
The British Labour Party will probably cruise to victory in July’s election after more than a decade of social vandalism by the Conservatives. But there is little popular enthusiasm for a party determined to promise as little change as possible.
Theresa May's plans for implementing Brexit will be disastrous for workers.
Britain’s leading liberal newspaper has set out on a mission to define and defeat “populism.” It has not gone well.
“Populism” is today employed as a bogeyman by liberals and centrists alike. Is there anything worth salvaging in the concept?
Boris Johnson’s disastrous time in office has spluttered to an ignominious conclusion. Many of those now deploring his record sided with Johnson when it really mattered because they wanted to block a left-wing government that could transform British society.
Boris Johnson’s drive toward a no-deal Brexit is hastening calls for the breakup of the United Kingdom. The crisis of the British state creates opportunities for the Left’s socialist message — but only if it can navigate the messy politics of national identity.
Mass workers’ movements transformed much of the world in the twentieth century, but they couldn’t overcome the power of capital. Today, we need a new democratic socialism to remake politics and revive working-class organizing.
It's not clear that a Leave vote would make our tasks on the Left any easier.
Brexit wasn't the first time Europeans rejected the EU, and it won't be the last. Here's what the Left should do.
The Grenfell Tower fire exposed the class violence embedded in London's rich, gentrifying neighborhoods.
Norway's parliamentary elections on Monday will point the way forward for the country's left.
A leader of Norway's Socialist Left Party on tomorrow's elections and how small, insurgent parties can change society.
Corbyn's Labour Party is advancing a transformative project that could push beyond traditional social democracy — and toward democratic workers' control.
You can't understand the chaos of Brexit without understanding the fundamentals of the European Union.
Could Corbynism come to Australia? Don’t count on it — neoliberalism runs deep in the country's Labor Party.