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The Momentum founder on his kibbutznik past, how progressives should respond to anti-Semitism and Jeremy Corbyn’s mistakes.

By George Eaton

Europe’s leaders are keenly watching the German breakaway party.

By Jeremy Cliffe

This is not a bunch of Trots but a well-prepared team with a clear agenda.

By Wolfgang Münchau

The former Greek finance minister on his new book Technofeudalism and why the left keeps losing.

By George Eaton

The country is in economic and political crisis and parties of the extreme left and right are rising again.

By Wolfgang Münchau

In the US, UK, France and Spain, socialists have embraced horse-trading at the expense of building popular power.

By Oliver Eagleton

Stefanos Kasselakis’s takeover of the Greek left-wing party marks a traumatic break from their political traditions.

By David Broder

Also this week: Meeting progressive peers in Montreal, and bridging divides in football and politics.

By David Lammy

The anxieties and insecurities of the present moment are a formidable challenge for the centre left – in Britain and…

By New Statesman

A nation steeped in culture cannot be reduced to statistics and pop psychology.

By Jonathan Rutherford

Instead of accepting the right-wing economic orthodoxy, we should implement the radical reforms that rebuilt postwar UK and US.

By Adrian Pabst

Now is the time to confront oligarchs and cultural conservatives, and ask what sort of country Ukraine will become.

By Slavoj Žižek

In the face of Starmer’s attacks, we can either slink off into political isolation or work together to reclaim our…

By Jeremy Gilbert

The director of Compass speaks out against his potential expulsion.

By Freddie Hayward

The right is at once more interested in ideas and ruthlessly pragmatic than its opposing wing.

By Adrian Pabst