Democracy
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Why did Americans vote for Trump?
The question commentators won’t ask is simple: what kind of society votes Donald Trump President? Siobhán McGuirk surveys the fragmented USA
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The changing face of Labour
Josh Holmes speaks to some of the new intake of Labour MPs about a fresh left focus for the party
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Nigel Farage does not exist
Nick Jackson explores how last weekend’s Beyond UKIP Cabaret unmanned and unmasked Nigel Farage – leading to death threats directed at the carnival’s organiser
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Cybersyn and Allende’s socialist internet
Leigh Phillips tells the story of Cybersyn, Chile’s experiment in non-centralised economic planning which was cut short by the 1973 coup
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Taking on the ‘fruitcakes’: how can we stop UKIP?
Richard Seymour considers where UKIP’s vote is coming from and how the left needs to respond, whilst James O’Nions provide perspectives on UKIP’s rise at the European and local levels
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Thomas Paine, restless democrat
June 2009 marked the bicentenary of the death of Thomas Paine. Mike Marqusee celebrates the life, work and ideas of the great revolutionary who declared that ‘my country is the world and my religion is to do good’
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Bolivia at the crossroads
Socialist Evo Morales and white neoliberal Jorge ‘Tuto’ Quiroga face off in Bolivia’s 2005 general election, exposing deep divides within the country