Democracy
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How to build a new left-party alliance
A left-led Green party and the new ‘Your Party’ are both vital to defeating the right – but we need cross-party collaboration and grassroots organising to forge real change, argues Labour-turned-Green councillor Liam Shrivastava
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Lessons from Zohran Mamdani’s campaign
Mamdani’s impressive Democratic primary victory is a source of hope for transformative politics in NYC and the wider US, writes Dillon Delaune – one of 50,000 supporters who canvassed for his campaign
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No short cuts: Does the British left really need a new party?
We need to build an independent politics from below, argues Hilary Wainwright – and look to longer-term organising, not quick answers
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The only way left is always anti-racist
Any new socialist organisation must put proletarian anti-racism at its heart and embrace utopian pragmatism, write Joshua Virasami and Jonas Marvin
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Meet the independent MPs and councillors shaking up local politics
Local activists, disillusioned with the status quo, are forming political organisations independent of the Labour Party. Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi spoke to groups building connections locally and nationally
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The capitalist crisis of liberal democracy
Jenny Pearce considers how the left should respond to the failings of liberal democracy in the face of the new capitalist authoritarianism
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Syria’s turbulent transition
Mazen Gharibah reports on the aftermath of the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad and how grassroots, civilian-led peacebuilding efforts are crucial to Syria’s future
