How The Taliban Took Afghanistan
The Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan is just the latest failure for liberal interventionism – and demonstrates once again that democracy can’t be built at the point of a missile.
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Alex Doherty is the host of Tribune Radio's Politics Theory Other podcast.
The Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan is just the latest failure for liberal interventionism – and demonstrates once again that democracy can’t be built at the point of a missile.
Often seen as an outlier in British politics, Enoch Powell was in fact deeply influential in the development of the Conservative Party – and laid the intellectual foundations for the Thatcherite project which followed him.
Writer and academic Ed Rooksby passed away last week at the age of just 46. We republish one of his final in-depth interviews – and remember his contributions to socialist thought in Britain.
In 2008, neoliberals who have shaped economic policy for decades exploited the crisis to further entrench their power. They will do the same with coronavirus – unless the Left builds an alternative.
Tribune Radio’s Politics Theory Other podcast is launching #PTO1000 this week – a fundraising drive to help expand its output and produce new series on the climate crisis and the rise of the far-right.
In 2017’s general election comeback, Momentum played a key role in mobilising Labour supporters across the country. This time they plan to go one further – and help Labour into Downing Street.
If a Corbyn-led Labour Party wins the next general election, big business will fight back – and we’ll need a plan to defeat them.