Keir Starmer has made his pitch for the Labour leadership on a promise to retain the party's left-wing policies, whilst also being pragmatic and electable. Yet, as Oliver Eagleton writes, a look at his chequered career to date puts his left credentials in severe doubt.
After enduring 7 long months on strike, a group of undocumented migrant postal workers in France have claimed victory against backbreaking and dangerous working conditions they experienced at Chronopost, a subsidiary of the French postal service. In this article, Luke Butterly reports on the struggle and the latest in the wave of migrant fights in France.
On 12 January 2010, the philosopher Daniel Bensaïd, a leading figure of May ‘68, of the Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire and the Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste, died at the age of 63. Here, Alain Badiou pays tribute to his life and work, during a seminar devoted to Plato.
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Maya Goodfellow on the the historical roots of the hostile environment policy, the punitive, cruel and deliberately confusing character of Britain's immigration system, and how New Labour's policies on migration and asylum laid some of the basis for the Conservative's migration policies, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast.
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One lesson drawn in General Election post-mortems by many on the left is the need for greater democracy in the Labour Party. But, as John-Baptiste Oduor argues, in the absence of working class mobilisation democratisation has served to further distance the Party from its working class base.
Bill V. Mullen and Christopher Vials reflect on the Trump Administration's recent executive order, which claims to protect Jews in the face of growing fascist violence in the U.S. Instead, they argue, it is only the latest salvo in the president's culture war against the left and its perceived institutional homes.
Since the middle of December, France has been gripped by a wave of large scale strikes. In this article the French collective Plateforme d’Enquêtes Militantes analyses the composition of the strikes, and the potential for its continued escalation.
Bilal Zenab Ahmed on the potentially devastating consequences of the assassination of General Soleimani by the USA
Richard Seymour on the reasons for Labour's electoral defeat, why the left overestimated Labour's chances, and what we can expect from the 'disaster nationalism' of Boris Johnson's government, with Alex Doherty on the Politics Theory Other podcast.
2019 has been a year of planetary unrest, with mass struggles springing up in places as diverse as Haiti, France, Ecuador, and Iran. Yet, it is the struggles in Chile, sparked by a 4 per cent rise in the price of a metro ride, that have been most emblematic of this new cycle of mass mobilisation. In this article, Joshua Clover reads the striking image of a train on fire in the Elisa Correa station of the Santiago metro, and asks what it can tell us about our new era of riot and protest.