Global politics
Our in-depth analysis of worldwide events, campaigns and movements prioritises writers on the ground, exploring the critical trends shaping left-wing politics around the world.
Our in-depth analysis of worldwide events, campaigns and movements prioritises writers on the ground, exploring the critical trends shaping left-wing politics around the world.
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The Firm and its long-lasting grip
Laura Clancy examines the history of the Crown, its role in empire and its continuing functional and ideological purpose today
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Rojava’s Everyday Democracy
Drawing on first-hand experience in Rojava, Ramazan Mendanlioglu explores how radical decentralisation and self-administration look in practice
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Lebanon’s October revolution
Following a year of struggle, crisis and destruction, the people of Lebanon fight on, writes Rima Majed from Beirut
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Just Irish
Emigration may be at the core of Irish national memory but this has not translated to into a welcoming embrace for its immigrant population, writes Ola Majekodunmi
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Northern Ireland: the bastard state
A hundred years on from partition, Pádraig Ó Meiscill diagnoses the many ills of past and present Northern Ireland
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From the Commune to communalism
March–May 2021 marks 150 years since the Paris Commune. Mathijs van de Sande and Gaard Kets explore its legacy and enduring relevance for today’s left
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How the first Gulf War shaped the British left
Thirty years on from the first Gulf War, Evan Smith considers how it exposed the limitations in the British left’s ability to build a mass movement