Donald Trump is right. There is a “swamp”, but it’s the left that must drain it
The left needs an agenda to reinvent the failing state.
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Trump’s victory is a cataclysm
How should the left navigate the new era to come?
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Fredric Jameson’s capitalist horror show
We still live in the postmodern landscape defined by the Marxist thinker, who died this month.
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Inside Diane Abbott’s war with Labour
The MP’s memoir A Woman Like Me reveals a remarkable life spent fighting prejudice – and her own party.
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Stuart Weir: The editor who shaped a country
In 1988, the New Statesman’s campaigning leader devised Charter 88 – a call to arms that radically transformed Britain’s political…
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How the European left can take on the hard right
There are flickers of hope in Italy and Spain.
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Éric Hazan, rebel publisher
The leading French thinker has died aged 87. His cosmopolitan ease and intellectual industry is an example to the left.
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How the Faiza Shaheen row helps Keir Starmer
For certain factions of the party this is no gaffe, it’s cynical tactics.
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Labour’s moral purpose
Why the centre left must end its embrace of oligarchy.
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How the Corbynite left hit self-destruct
Andy Beckett’s The Searchers charts the rise and fall of Tony Benn’s heirs, but fails to confront the obstinacy and…
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Inside the Labour left’s split
The rise of a “New Left” grouping has exposed divisions within the Socialist Campaign Group.
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This is a time to insist on Jewishness
To abandon our identity, as left-wing Jews did in the past, would be to surrender to those who allow only…
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The left fails to appreciate competing loyalties
Cooperation between Palestinian and Jewish Israelis is the only model for a peaceful future.
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Jews can be humanists
A lot of evil is done to people because of their particular identities, but that is no reason to entrench…
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What it means to be Jewish now
With anti-Semitism rising and divisions on the left over the Gaza war, writers reflect on being Jewish now.
Both Netanyahu’s cabinet and Hamas see this crisis as an opportunity
The Israeli left’s turn to the right comes from its sense of betrayal by the world’s left – especially by…
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Jewish progressives are deeply critical of Israel, yet inextricably tied to it
The horrendous killing and abduction of Israeli civilians placed many Jewish activists in unfamiliar territory.
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The founding of Israel wasn’t a colonial act – a refugee isn’t a colonist
It’s understandable that Palestinians have been indoctrinated with Jew hate, but there is no such excuse for Western students.
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The global left is the only force that has the power to stay Israel’s hand
It’s tragic that Jews had to see their transition from powerlessness to power come at the price of another people’s…
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The left’s conservative turn
From Keir Starmer to Sahra Wagenknecht, a consensus of securonomics and social moderation is emerging.
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