Political parties and ideologies
Inclusive, accessible debate covering everything from political history primers to left party analysis to keeping tabs on the evolving far-right
Inclusive, accessible debate covering everything from political history primers to left party analysis to keeping tabs on the evolving far-right
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Maidan over: The balance of power in Ukraine
While Ukraine’s oligarchic elite aspires to become a ruling class, it is also the object of an ongoing competition between Russia and the west to draw it into their respective transnational capitalist classes, writes Marko Bojcun
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Young people the latest target in Labour’s lurch to the right
Labour’s austerity-inspired welfare proposals will penalise young adults for circumstances beyond their control, writes Andrew Dolan
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Anyone but Ingerland? Mark Perryman debates Mike Marqusee
Mark Perryman puts the case for flying the St George cross at the World Cup, while Mike Marqusee explains why he’ll be rooting for any other country to win it
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Shirkers and conchies: how governments tried to silence First World War resisters
Peace activists against the First World War were treated as enemies by their government, but left a legacy of perserverance writes Tim Gee
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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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The local: for and against
Greg Sharzer argues that movements have to confront the capitalist crisis, not carve spaces away from it. Below, Hilary Wainwright writes that we must avoid the false dichotomy between organising locally and on a broader stage
