Ten years ago today, thousands poured onto the streets of Egypt and the Arab uprisings began in earnest. In the first piece of a new series on what these events can teach us about Western imperialism in the twenty-first century, David Wearing takes a look at the roots of the uprisings.
Progressives are celebrating the end of Trump. What changes now? With Michael Walker, Ash Sarkar, and Nelini Stamp, Anand Menon and David Wearing.
The US election is still too close to call. But this very fact makes one thing clear: Trump’s 2016 win was no fluke, but the expression of a formidable socio-political force that could take a generation to defeat, argues David Wearing.
While some suggest London is powerless in the face of Washington’s demands, the UK can - and does - stand up to the US when it wants to. When Britain accommodates and even actively collaborates with Trump, it can’t be let off the hook, argues David Wearing.
The reasons for widespread despair on the left are no mystery: the success of the right's 'culture war', and the loss of the Labour leadership. David Wearing argues workplace and community organising, and political education, can help us build the forms of solidarity we need to fight back.
The first question we need to ask of any leading Labour figure is this: are their politics managerial, or are they transformative? Although many say Starmer’s politics are yet to be defined - or are simply ‘non-ideological’ - his strategy has already told us otherwise, argues David Wearing.
In the context of US imperialism, the differences between presidents can feel small. But even though violence and exploitation will continue irrespective of this year's election result, the choice between Biden and Trump is a real and urgent one, argues David Wearing.
The right’s shrill panic about an ‘invasion’ of migrants reached new heights this week over a handful of refugees in barely seaworthy dinghies. In order to understand the forces we’re dealing with, we need to examine this hysteria itself, argues David Wearing.
Since the outbreak of Covid-19, criticism of the British government has focused on negligence within the UK’s own borders. But from Yemen to Iraq, Britain’s responsibility for the global death toll goes far further than is being reported, argues David Wearing.
There are some on the left who say we shouldn’t get distracted by the ‘culture war’, and should keep our focus on the ‘real issues’. But this distinction is often a false one, and the left needs to figure out how to fight the culture war on its own terms, argues David Wearing.
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