What is Trumpism? Part 4: the White Working Class
Introduction In the previous post What is Trumpism? Part 3: Race, class and nation, I started to identify what constituted the social base of Trumpism. In that post, I showed …
What is Trumpism? Part 2 The Old, the New Working Class and National Identity
What is Trumpism? Part 2- The Old, the New Working Class and National Identity In my previous post What is Trumpism? Part 1- The Root of the Problem, I developed the idea …
What is Trumpism? Part 1- The Root of the Problem
a Introduction Like everyone else I know, I have been shocked by the first few days of the Trump presidency. The man seems to be worse than my worst expectations. …
Reflections on multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism and globalisation- Part 2
Introduction In the first part of this post (Reflections on multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism and globalisation- Part 1) I introduced the Guardian story about the global musical hit Pasoori, a song by …
The Recent Democratic Primary Election for Mayor in Buffalo, New York and the New Working Class
Introduction In my blogs and in my recent article for Soundings, Class and Nation in the Age of Populism I have been suggesting that the association of the term ‘working …
Parliamentary politics, the establishment and the plight of the left behind
In Part 2 of my blogposts on Black Lives Matter I raised the issue of the relationship between parliamentary and extra-parliamentary action in contributing to progressive democratic social change. I …
Black Lives Matter and the Contradictions of Representative Democracy Part 2- What is democracy?
In the first part of this blog, I said that the BLM movement and Keir Starmer’s reaction to the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston raised important questions for …
Antisemitism and Populism
The respected Marxist historian and biographer of Stalin and Trotsky Isaac Deutscher gave a lecture on the topic of antisemitism to the World Jewish Congress held in London in September …