An Opportunity for an Alternative in Canada
An interview with Niki Ashton, whose campaign for leadership of Canada's New Democratic Party has been rooted in a bold left-wing vision.
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Tony Blair Wants to Drag the Left Into His Own Political Grave
Tony Blair has a message for the center-left parties of Europe and the US: let business do whatever it likes and pander to the Right at all costs. Blair’s latest intervention is a glorified infomercial on behalf of the billionaires who support his globe-trotting vanity projects.
Left Behind by Good Friday
Bernadette Devlin on her early activism and why the Good Friday Agreement brought some peace, but little justice.
Germany’s Left Has New Leadership but Not a Strategy
After years of stagnant poll numbers and declining electoral results, Germany's Die Linke party hopes that its new leadership team will return it to the promise of the 2000s. But as its social base in the former East fragments, the left-wing party doesn't just need a different marketing strategy — it needs to rebuild its roots in working-class life.
Is Left Populism the Solution?
Left populism is the new idiom of radical politics worldwide. It emerged as the answer to the problem of a weak and disorganized working class — but despite its electoral successes, that class remains weak and disorganized.
Breaking With Austerity
Thomas Mulcair’s ouster provides an opening for left activists inside and outside Canada’s New Democratic Party.
Labour and the Fight for a United Ireland
The border controversy is just the latest episode in the epic of Britain’s political establishment and their willful ignorance of Ireland.
What’s Next for the Labour Left?
Momentum chair Jon Lansman discusses Labour's campaign, party democracy, and the path to a left-led government.
“Being Just ‘Democrat’ or ‘Progressive’ Means Nothing. It Provides No Direction.”
Erika Uyterhoeven is a democratic socialist, a former Bernie Sanders staffer, and the Democratic nominee for a Massachusetts state representative seat. In an interview with Jacobin, Uyterhoeven talks about how the Sanders campaigns impacted her, the broad left coalition that won her the nomination, and why it’s important to openly embrace being a socialist.
We Don’t Have to Be Polite
A leader of Norway's Socialist Left Party on tomorrow's elections and how small, insurgent parties can change society.
Remaking Labour
MP Jon Trickett on studying under Ralph Miliband and how Labour can become a million-member party.
Socialists Were Right to Slam Boris Johnson’s Coronavirus Response
For a year, centrist pundits scolded the Left for daring to criticize Boris Johnson’s response to COVID-19. This week’s hearing with former aide Dominic Cummings revealed we were right all along.
Can the Ruling Class Speak?
Talking about elites isn't just the realm of conspiracy theorists. In fact, it's a vital component of left-wing politics.
The Beginning of the End of Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher died two years ago this month. He helped us see the collective depression we have all lived in for decades. If only he could have seen that depression finally start to lift.
There Is No Left Exit
We shouldn’t have illusions about transforming the EU from below. But a Leave vote would only strengthen the Right.
The Trump Way
Trump's infrastructure and jobs proposals might ruffle some establishment feathers, but he'll still be terrible for workers.
Centrist Democrats Are Trying to Throw the Michigan Race
Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate race could decide control of the chamber. Yet some centrist Democrats are openly working to sink his campaign — because they’d rather hand the seat to a Trump-backed Republican than let the Left gain a foothold in their party.
How the UK Labour Party Lost the Working Class
More low-income voters backed the Tories than the Labour Party in the 2019 election for the first time ever. Labour’s decision to side with the establishment rather than the voters over Brexit pushed them into the Tories’ arms.
An Open Letter to the British Left
A Greek leftist on why British socialists shouldn’t shy away from rejecting the European Union.
Leo Panitch Was a Mentor for a New Generation of Socialists
Leo Panitch, who died on Saturday, defended working-class politics even in times when many of his colleagues succumbed to neoliberal triumphalism. His work had a political, not just academic, purpose — and its message will survive among the generation of socialists whose thinking he shaped.