Opinion: Keir Starmer’s Position on Austerity Is Almost Identical to the Tories’
Aaron Bastani
With his 'tough' position on public spending Keir Starmer is being far more dishonest than Liz Truss - and far more outlandish than Jeremy Corbyn.
Tag: social democracy
Opinion: The Housing Boom Replaced Social Democracy. Now We Have Neither
Aaron Bastani
Property owners need a reality check, writes Aaron Bastani. But it's easier to understand their anger over soaring mortgage rates when you consider what the housing boom replaced.
Analysis: Generation Left Might Not Be That Left After All
James Meadway
The left is wrong to take young people’s support for granted, writes James Meadway.
Opinion: It’s Win or Die for Scottish Labour. So Why Is the Party Fighting to Lose?
Finn Smyth & Coll McCail
Today Scotland elects a new parliament. Thanks to years of self-sabotage, Labour may lose this historic heartland once and for all.
Novara FM: A Plague of Blue Locusts: On Police Power
Mark Neocleous joins James Butler to unravel the knot of police power, sovereignty and social order.
Downstream: When Will China Be the World’s Most Powerful Country? Interview With Martin Jacques
Will the 2020s be the decade when power decisively shifts from the United States to China? How important is the country’s rise in broader historic context – and is that why we are seeing an emerging Cold War between Washington and Beijing? And do appeals to a ‘civilisation-state’ undermine the power of universal values and […]
Novara FM: The Socialist Manifesto: Bhaskar Sunkara
James Butler is joined by Bhaskar Sunkara, founder of Jacobin, to discuss the past and future of socialism.
The Bastani Factor: A Crisis of the Imagination | Aaron Meets Rutger Bregman
“Taxes” was the word on everyone’s lips after the annual Davos conference this year. The man who had dared utter it amongst the financial elite was Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian whose no nonsense savaging of the establishment brought him viral fame. His latest book ‘Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There’ argues […]
Novara FM: For a Left Populism: Chantal Mouffe
On #NovaraFM James Butler is joined by leading theorist of populism Chantal Mouffe. They discuss populism left and right, sovereignty, the nation-state – and the durability of classical socialism
Novara FM: Public Capital and Transition: Robin Blackburn on the Corbyn Project
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Robin Blackburn, former editor of the New Left Review and professor of Sociology at the University of Essex, to discuss the political economy of Corbynism.
Long Read: Killing Us Softly: A Short History of Biopower in the NHS
Sophie Monk and Joni Cohen
This week's long read exposes the phony narrative of an NHS for all, instead revealing an institution that has, from its conception, existed to serve the needs of capital.
There’s No Going Back to Social Democracy
A.R. Naraghi
Both sides of the Atlantic, the centre-left is still reeling from the global financial crisis. For many disillusioned voters the only solution is a radical one - whether to the left or right.
Larry Sanders: “We Don’t Really Know Who the Labour Party Is”
Josiah Mortimer
Josiah Mortimer interviewed Green party candidate Larry Sanders, brother of Bernie, about his running in the Witney by-election, Jeremy Corbyn, and the possibility of a Green-Labour alliance in the next general election.
Long Read: ‘We are socialists, they are social democrats’: An Interview with Austria’s Socialist Youth
James McAsh
Julia Herr, chair of Socialist Youth Austria, spoke to us about socialism, the rise of the far-right Freedom party and the crisis of social democracy.
Opposition to Momentum’s Festival Comes From Fear of the New Politics It Represents
Andrew Dolan
Momentum's 'The World Transformed' festival is taking place on the same weekend as Labour's annual conference, in the same city. Andrew Dolan argues it's a welcome interruption to a stage-managed spectacle.
Long Read: The Problems of Podemos
Matt Myers
Unidos Podemos, the left-wing coalition party, came in a disappointing third place in the most recent Spanish elections. After polling well, why did the party fail to capture the popular vote? And what lessons can left-wing electoral projects draw from this?
5 Things Jeremy Corbyn Could Learn from ‘Revolutionary Reformism’ in Sweden
Carl Rowlands
Assassinated in 1986, the two-time Swedish prime minister Olof Palme was motivated by what he called 'revolutionary reformism'. With Labour chipping away at the Tories' polling lead, what could Corbyn learn from Palme's legacy?
Novara FM: Is Labour the Exception?
On this week's show Aaron Bastani and James Butler ask if, and why, Labour is the exception among Europe's faltering parties of social democracy