Keir Starmer’s righteous war against the Blob
The campaign against civil service lethargy draws on a noble tradition of anarchic, anti-bureaucratic socialism.
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Keir Starmer’s hollow state
Labour’s planned welfare cuts are further evidence of a government running scared from two political foes: the City and Nigel…
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Ash Sarkar: “I wasn’t smart enough to listen when I was younger”
The journalist and figurehead of the young Corbynite left on progressive politics in retreat and what the right got right.
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Art and the ruins of the left
Can painting alter the course of our politics?
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Sahra Wagenknecht loses her civil war on the German left
The political upstart, who tried to blend right-wing nationalism and left-wing socialism, failed to make a mark in Germany's election.
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David Rieff foretells the fate of woke
Rieff offers the American left a path beyond the culture war and towards a more generous, genuine humanism.
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Where next for Blue Labour?
Labour MP David Smith, one of the movement’s four parliamentary champions, reveals its ambition and goals.
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The battle for Labour’s soul
An insurgent Blue Labour is colliding with the Treasury and the progressive left.
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John McDonnell on where Rachel Reeves is going wrong
The veteran socialist and former shadow chancellor speaks out from political exile.
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What the left gets wrong about Rachel Reeves
Bond market traders should not be trusted with the fate of a Labour chancellor.
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Has Biden buried the American left?
Scattered and listless, the movement this defeated president leaves behind must regroup quickly.
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We must all be left conservatives now
Christopher Lasch, Steve Bannon and Donald Trump all understand the unique current of our historical moment.
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The left is waking up to the immigration crisis
Keir Starmer’s relaunch speech was a belated recognition of a collective political madness.
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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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