Political 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

  • Pouring oil on Lebanon’s fire

    The Paris conference to provide ‘aid’ to Lebanon sent a clear message: if you are on the verge of civil war, make sure you privatise and pay your foreign debt

  • An Aymara woman looking out over the Bolivian city of Copacabana from above

    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

  • A photo of a newspaper printing press in operation

    The medium is the message

    The alternative media are more than a source of news; they help keep the democratic process alive writes Gary Younge

  • Bob Dylan

    The Politics of Bob Dylan

    The protest songs for which Bob Dylan is most famous were written in a 20-month burst in the early 1960s. Within a year Dylan had turned his back on them – not in renunciation of politics, argues Mike Marqusee, but to pursue a deeper kind of radicalism