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Opinion: Politicians Should Step Aside and Let Members Run the New Left Party

Jonas Marvin & Shanice McBean

Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn’s power struggles are squandering a historic opportunity to build a mass party of the left. That’s why we support the democratic challenge to take over its leadership, write Jonas Marvin and Shanice McBean.

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Opinion: Banning Le Pen From Running Will Let Her Play the Victim

Richard Hames

A spate of legal challenges preventing politicians from standing in elections exposes the crisis of liberal democracy. The left should be cautious about celebrating when reactionaries get taken down by the courts, argues Richard Hames.

A car with a picture of Donald Trump in the window and a sign that says 'Trump low prices, Kamala high prices'

Opinion: People Won’t Care About Democracy If Democracy Doesn’t Care About Them

Kojo Koram

Whether Trump or Orban, Modi or Milei, states whose primary beneficiaries aren’t their own citizens but a transnational investor class inevitably opt out of liberal democracy, writes Kojo Koram. Why are Democrats so surprised by this?

Opinion: Macron Is Making a Joke of France’s Electorate

Cole Stangler

The French president has refused to appoint a prime minister from the leftwing coalition that won the most seats in the country’s recent snap elections. French citizens deserve better, writes Cole Stangler.

Opinion: People Hate Politicians. The Greens Could Change That

Adam Ramsay

A deep sense that our political system is rotten has defined every recent general election, writes Adam Ramsay. With four new MPs, the Greens have an opportunity to drum up a movement for radical democracy.

ACFM: Microdose: Reactionary Democracy

How do politicians and pundits end up normalising the far-right? Aaron Winter and Aurelien Mondon explain in a Microdose interview.

Novara FM: The Oxygen of Democracy

Amy Goodman, trailblazing host of Democracy Now!, tells Ash Sarkar why American journalism is always under threat.

a man in a white shirt and black trousers does the peace sign with both hands before a crowd of people holding EU flags and banners

Report: Donald Tusk Gives Polish Leftists the Ick. They Might Have to Get Over It

Ana Oppenheim

On Sunday, half a million people took to the streets of Warsaw to hear Donald Tusk rail against the government. The march presented a dilemma for the Polish left, torn between its disdain for continental Thatcherites like Tusk and its hatred of the far-right incumbents. Ana Oppenheim reports.

Long Read: The Four Neat Tricks Corporations Used to Take Over the World

Claire Provost & Matt Kennard

As the old empires have crumbled, corporations have staged a silent coup against democracy - reaching every corner of the globe.

Downstream: We Are on a Path Towards Authoritarianism | Aaron Bastani Meets Mehdi Hasan

Mehdi Hasan discusses the challenges facing the world today, including authoritarianism, the role of media in shaping public opinion, and the need for a more equitable society. His new book “Win Every Argument” is out now.

Analysis: Westminster Has Waged War on Scottish Democracy. What Now?

Nick McKerrell

In blocking democratically-passed Scottish legislation on gender recognition reform from becoming law, Rishi Sunak has hugely overstepped – and chosen short-term heavy-handedness over preserving the union, writes Nick McKerrell.

People hold white sheets of paper in protest over coronavirus disease (COVID-19) restrictions, after a vigil for the victims of a fire in Urumqi, as outbreaks of COVID-19 continue, in Beijing, China,

Report: Chinese Students Are At The Forefront Of Anti-Lockdown Protests

Jessie Lau

Since president Xi Jinping took power in 2012, activism has been constricted. For many young people, recent mass protests are their first taste of dissent.

Former BBC Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis

Opinion: The Tories Are Capturing ‘Politically Neutral’ Public Institutions

Steven Methven

Former Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis has revealed that the Tories have exerted political influence on the BBC. That isn’t the half of their attempts to capture key institutions, argues Steven Methven.

Analysis: Angolans Are Done With a One-Party State

Joana Ramiro

Next week's election could spell the end of the MPLA's half-century rule, writes Joana Ramiro.

Opinion: Is There Any Point Staying in Labour?

Andrew Scattergood & Gaya Sriskanthan

With local elections looming, Momentum’s co-chairs make the case for a strong Labour left.

Downstream: Liberalism Is in Trouble. Aaron Bastani Meets Francis Fukuyama

Few political thinkers exert such an influence that their work becomes synonymous with a historic era. Francis Fukuyama's declaration of "the end of history" after the fall of the Soviet Union made him one. Aaron Bastani speaks to Fukuyama on the publication of his new book, Liberalism and its Discontents.

ACFM: Trip 22: Democracy

The gang find out what it means to be ruled by the people, with music from Crass and the Scratch Orchestra.

David Graeber Occupy Wall Street

Opinion: David Graeber’s Real Contribution to Occupy Wall Street Wasn’t a Phrase – It Was a Process

Marisa Holmes

Far more significant than his co-creation of the phrase "We are the 99%", David Graeber gave Occupy Wall Street the very democratic values that underpinned it.

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