Analysis

Greek university students clash with riot police in Athens, Greece
Analysis: Police Brutality: How Protesters Resist State Violence Around the World
Novara Media spoke to those organising against police violence in Myanmar, Greece, Palestine, Nigeria, Chile, Colombia and the United States about what they’re up against, their tips and strategies, and the advice they have for protesters facing police brutality in the UK.
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson with Sir David Attenborough talk to school children at the Science Museum for Launch of the UK hosting of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26)
Analysis: So Far, the Tories’ ‘Green Industrial Revolution’ Is Pure PR. This Year They Have an Opportunity to Change That
by James Meadway
A net-zero target with no plan to meet it, billions of re-announced funding - when will we start seeing the substance behind the rhetoric? Possibly at November's climate conference, writes James Meadway.
Analysis: Unfinished Revolutions: What’s the Future of the Arab Uprisings?
by David Wearing

It is impossible to avoid the sense of epic tragedy that hangs over the Arab uprisings today, a decade on. But in the final piece of his series on the uprisings, David Wearing argues that the story isn’t over yet.

The ever given blocks the suez canal
Analysis: The Suez Canal Block Told Us a Lot About Capitalism and Sovereignty
by Aaron Bastani
The Ever Given is free, but the brief Suez crisis demonstrated how deeply interconnected our world is. Europe and North America would never have said the blockage was an issue for Egypt to resolve alone - after all the implications were global in extent. So why are climate change, displaced peoples, pandemics and public health any different?
Keir Starmer wearing a suit and red poppy and looking worried as he holds his hand to his mouth
Analysis: Imagine Starmer is Polling Badly. Now Times That by Ten
by Ell Folan
On virtually no measure is Sir Keir doing well in the polls, writes data journalist and Stats for Lefties founder Ell Folan.
Analysis: Labour Has a Problem With Sex Work
by Sophie K Rosa
From supporting a strip club ban in Bristol to attempting to use the sinister new police bill as a vehicle to smuggle through an amendment that would further criminalise sex work, a certain set of Labour MPs seem fixated on a crackdown that women in the industry say would put them in danger.
person holding fake covid passport
Analysis: Vaccine Passports Could Be a Dystopian Nightmare
by James Meadway
What seems like a sensible measure could be a slippery slope to a social credit system. We must not sleepwalk into more unregulated, opaque data collection, writes James Meadway.
radio towers across rolling hills
Analysis: How We Win: The Media
by James Schneider
To win the 2020s, we must tell our story. At every opportunity, socialists must make clear, emotional and positive arguments to build support for our solutions, cut through government spin and disarm the culture wars.
Mark Rutte waves
Analysis: The Dutch Left Was Savaged at the Polls – but Its Policies Remain Unscathed
by Merijn Oudenampsen
Wednesday's historic defeat is especially confounding given the popularity of leftwing policies among the electorate, writes Dutch political scientist Merijn Oudenampsen.
A Bolivian woman with a flag against a rural landscape
Analysis: How We Win: The World
by James Schneider
Our enemies are globally networked; so must we be. In the fifth instalment of How We Win, James Schneider sets out an internationalist strategy for the 2020s.
Analysis: Unfinished Revolutions: How Syria’s Uprising Turned Into a War
by David Wearing

Ten years ago this week the Arab uprisings arrived in Syria, with large demonstrations marking the culmination of weeks of brewing unrest. In the fifth piece of his series on the uprisings, David Wearing looks at how the attempted revolution in Syria became a full-blown war.
A red box sitting on a green table in front of a Union Jack flag
Analysis: How We Win: The State
by James Schneider
If we aren’t preparing to use power, we are preparing to have it used against us. The left needs a state strategy, starting with municipal socialism to lay the groundwork for a national programme.
People holding up 'Vote Labour' placards
Analysis: How We Win: The Party
by James Schneider
Labour is not a socialist party, particularly not with Keir Starmer as leader. Yet it remains the best vehicle for socialism we have. In the third instalment of his six-part series How We Win, James Schneider sets out the work we must do to render the party capable of social transformation in government.
Jon Boyega shouts into a microphone
Analysis: How We Win: The Movements
by James Schneider
Arguments are won with actions, not words. If socialist ideas are to become reality, we need power, and to generate it, we need movements, writes Momentum co-founder James Schneider.
Image of red raised fists against a blue sky background
Analysis: Introducing How We Win, a Socialist Strategy for the 2020s
by James Schneider
In this six-part, week-long series, James Schneider sets out a blueprint for the next decade.
The queen and prince philip
Analysis: If You Want to Understand How the Crown Meddles in Democracy, We Need to Talk About the Privy Council
by Kojo Koram

Curiously absent from discussions of #OprahMeghanHarry is the shadowy body that empowers the Crown to interfere in modern democracy, writes Kojo Koram.
Analysis: Unfinished Revolutions: How the Arab Uprisings Were Drowned in Oil
by David Wearing
Despite popular appetite for democracy, the Arab uprisings were violently thwarted. In the fourth part of his series on what these events can teach us about Western imperialism in the twenty-first century, David Wearing explores the role oil played in determining their defeat.
Rishi Sunak laughing
Analysis: After All the Hype Over Budget 2021…That’s It?
by James Meadway
Rishi Sunak wants to appear radical while cementing the status quo - and unless the left presents an alternative, he will, writes James Meadway.

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