The real work of the working class
The history of the labour movement is less about class struggle than the fight for universal values
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The curse of individualism
Rowan Williams’s new book reimagines solidarity for our times
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Labour must confront capitalism once again
The party has forgotten where it comes from
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When Trotsky took on Keir Starmer
A century ago, the original contradiction of the Labour party was already tearing it apart
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Your Party is a mess. That doesn’t mean it’s dead
As hopeless as last week was, a desire for a real socialist alternative still animates the British left
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Why the Labour right shut down my deputy leadership campaign
Socialism is being squeezed out of the party
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The deep history of Tim Walz’s populist roots
Kamala Harris’s running mate hails from a region with a long-running tradition of egalitarian politics.
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Labour’s moral purpose
Why the centre left must end its embrace of oligarchy.
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The making of EP Thompson
The historian was driven by the mystery of his brother’s death fighting with anti-fascist partisans.
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EP Thompson’s dystopian visions
His science fiction novel tackled two fears: atomic annihilation and AI determinism.
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Would there still have been global warming under socialism?
Market failure certainly delays aggressive climate action, but even had the whole world in the 20th century been socialist, the…
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Is Keir Starmer the British François Hollande?
Boring, safe, centrist – and probably doomed.
By6 September 1924: Now, when a man calls himself a Socialist, he conveys by the name little information about his ideas…
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The rise of millennial socialism
Across the world, young activists are turning to old ideas. Why?
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Why is “millennial socialism” on the rise? Because liberalism is failing
Millennials who care about freedom aren’t just looking for an alternative system of political and economic relations, but of moral…
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Francis Fukuyama interview: “Socialism ought to come back”
The End of History author on what Karl Marx got right, the rivals to liberal democracy and why he fears a US-China…
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The humanist left must challenge the rise of cyborg socialism
A new “accelerationist” movement, defined by its embrace of technological determinism, represents a threat to the ethical socialist tradition and liberal democracy.
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