Archive of Christine Berry

The crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic has revealed major flaws in the nature of the British state – and the left's thinking on state power as well. In this article, Christine Berry argues that what is required is a new, democratic conception of state power as a way out of the crisis.

Many on the left have argued that the current crisis precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic could lead to the conditions for a new socialism to emerge from the ashes. But, as Christine Berry argues, crises aren't only opportunities for the left, and the conditions that are emerging could well play into the hands of a renewed far-right.

Recent debates on the British and the German left have reopened the question of the relation between socialism, the global economy, and the nation state. In this essay, Christine Berry argues that we must develop a new politics, one that is open to people but closed to global capital, for a truly radical left politics, and one that can overcome the resurgent far right.