Zohran Mamdani, Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves and the Tasks of Left Politics
Harold Wilson is reputed to have said once that a week is a long time in politics. The last week certainly has been a quite momentous one for Left politics …
The New Working Class and the Question of National Identity
Introduction In these blog posts I have been attempting to grapple with the issue of the relationship between the working class and nationalism, particularly in countries that industrialised through an …
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 …
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 …