Labour’s Crises
The Labour Party's historical crises are rooted in crises of capitalism.
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The New Zealand “Socialists” Who Govern Like Neoliberals
Since releasing its budget substantially boosting welfare last week, leading figures in New Zealand’s Labour Party have been painting themselves as socialists overturning the country’s neoliberal order. But a closer look at the details shows how Labour plays a central role in that neoliberal order.
Here’s How Boris Johnson Can Be Defeated
With clear and inclusive class politics, the Left can unite the victims of Tory austerity and beat Boris Johnson at the polls.
Beyond Resistance
Our movement will exhaust itself if it's only fueled by outrage. We need to win people to a positive vision of a better world.
In This Election, Labour Has a Chance to End Thatcherism Once and for All
Not long after Margaret Thatcher rose to power forty years ago, she decimated huge swaths of Britain with deindustrialization, privatization, and cuts. Those same areas now have the opportunity in this election to bury her legacy once and for all.
Jo Swinson Is Not Your Friend
Brexit is giving the Lib Dems the opportunity to rebrand as a reforming, progressive party. But they're still a force for privilege and austerity. New leader Jo Swinson will only make matters worse.
Our Road to Power
The twentieth century left socialists plenty of lessons. Will we heed them?
The Tories Are Literally Dying Off
They may win next week’s general election, but in Great Britain the Tories are struggling to win over anyone under the age of 45. And younger generations don’t seem to be going Conservative as they get older. The Conservative Party has a serious problem.
Selahattin Demirtaş Is Not a Terrorist
The former co-chair of Turkey’s leading leftist party has been imprisoned for more than two years. His incarceration is an attack on democratic rights — and a boon to right-wing tyrants everywhere.
Why Workers Don’t Revolt
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.
Liberalism in Theory and Practice
Contemporary liberals are temperamentally conservative — and what they want to conserve is a morally bankrupt political order.
The System of Capitalism Has Always Been Built on Violence
Capitalism is often presented as synonymous with peaceful exchange. But the system has always reproduced itself through violence in defense of private property and power.
Britain’s Secret War in Colombia
For over half a century, a war against Colombian civilians has been waged alongside the war against Colombia’s guerrilla insurgencies. And the British state has supported it.
We Can Have Beautiful Public Housing
From Vienna to Chile, the success of social housing for the working and middle classes shows how beautiful homes can coexist with urban housing for all.
Harry Leslie Smith (1923–2018)
The life of Harry Leslie Smith, a working-class rebel to the end, was a towering monument to socialist compassion, internationalism, and peace.
Theresa May Has Brought a Knife to a Gunfight
The British prime minister’s vow to “defeat socialism today” reveals a leadership laughably bereft of ideas.
Comrades at War
Governments want us to respect World War I veterans in an apolitical way. But we should not forget the thousands of veterans who returned home to fight for their rights.
No One Ever Said It Would Be Easy
Labour lost this election not because it was too much of a working-class party, but because it was too little of one in too many places. Our cause endures — and now is the time to steel ourselves for the next fight.
A Podemos Budget?
Podemos’s backing for Spain’s Socialist cabinet risks making it a prop to the institutions it once rebelled against. Yet it has also imposed its own stamp on the government’s agenda.
Panic in Westminster
What happens when irresistible Brexit meets an immovable EU? Theresa May will soon find out.