Keir Starmer’s attacks on the Left show he's desperate to reassert Labour’s role as America’s closest ally. But with events from Afghanistan to Ukraine showing the limits of US interventionism, British centrists are longing for a now-past age of neocon power.
From their comical outrage over dick pics to their failed social media youth arm, Britain’s Conservatives have made themselves online laughingstocks. But the reason isn’t technological — it’s political.
British Marxist Bob Jessop on David Cameron, New Labour, and the best way to take on global capitalism.
Establishment pundits like Bret Stephens are trying to revive the Cold War, using the sloppiest of anti-left arguments.
Thomas Mulcair's fall should be celebrated — but the New Democratic Party is a dead end for the Canadian left.
The US is attempting to imprison one of its critics, Julian Assange, by claiming a global right to prosecute any journalist in the world. If that prosecution succeeds, it would be a severe blow not just to press freedom, but to our very right to oppose imperialism and empire.
A new book offers a flawed road map for rebuilding the Left.
The working class in capitalism is not a coherent class but a fragmented one — an amalgam of individuals trying to survive. It’ll take politics to change that.
Undergraduates aren't just students — they're increasingly also workers.
The revolutionary thought of Rosa Luxemburg continues to inform and inspire anticapitalist movements today.
Frances Fox Piven on the failure of welfare reform and the promise of new movements.
After its financial crisis, Iceland put bankers in jail. But it didn't rein in capital.
Canadian voters could oust Stephen Harper in today's election. But it's time to build a genuine left alternative to austerity.
Two days before the Canadian election, Stephen Harper's Conservatives seem on the verge of losing power.
The twentieth century left socialists plenty of lessons. Will we heed them?
Recent political shifts in Scotland present a real opening for socialists.
Bologna’s Communist-led government made far-reaching reforms, but fatally ignored the revolutionary potential of the city's youth.
An illustrated interview with former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis.
The COP21 agreement's shortcomings show that the climate justice movement needs to start thinking about state power.
With its poll numbers slipping, Podemos is searching for ways to recapture this spring's energy.