The Centre Can’t Save Democracy
The political centre sells itself as the answer to our democratic crisis, but it was their technocratic reforms that hollowed out politics – and facilitated the rise of the far-right.
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Rubber Bullet Liberalism
More than 1,700 people have been injured so far during France's 'yellow vest' protests as Macron's government meets dissent with repression.
Solidarity with Glenn Greenwald
The Bolsonaro government’s attack on Glenn Greenwald is an attempt to criminalise journalism and undermine democracy. We should stand with him.
Support Politics Theory Other in 2020
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.
20. Cutting to the Bone: An Interview with Vijay Prashad
In this week's A World to Win, Grace speaks to Marxist historian Vijay Prashad about India's mass strikes, the rise of the far right, and the persistence of imperial power in the global economy.
Britain’s Long Fight Over the Right to Protest
The Police Crackdown Bill is a threat to our right to protest, but that right has been contested for centuries – and from Peterloo to Cable Street, it has often been defended by breaking the law.
Bad Company
Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller talk to Juliet Jacques about their podcast and book ‘Bad Gays’, and about the ways in which LGBT history and current politics intersect.
Lessons from the Illiberal Democracies
Today's Tories are closer to the right-wing populist governments of Eastern Europe than the neoliberal mainstream. To defeat them, Labour has to avoid the mistakes that empowered those projects.
The Anti-Colonial Revolution
Radical post-colonial leaders like Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere didn't just want independence — they wanted to break the political and economic order that kept the Global South in subjugation.
Reality Show Politics
Matt Hancock thinks his stint surviving in the jungle is a 'good metaphor' for politics. He's right – but only because his risk of meeting serious harm in I'm a Celebrity is about as high as his risk of facing serious consequences for his Covid crimes.
The Anti-Strike Law is a Historic Attack on Workers’ Rights
The anti-strike law going before Parliament today will give bosses the power to sack frontline staff and drive their unions into bankruptcy. Its aim is clear: stop workers fighting back.
The Great Unravelling
The United Kingdom is unlikely to survive in its current form. Now is the time for socialists to imagine what comes next.
Football for the Many
Across the country, football supporters are growing alienated from the modern game - soulless, expensive and dominated by oligarchs. Labour wants to give power back to the fans.
How Keir Starmer Sabotaged Rebecca Long-Bailey
From her earliest days as shadow education secretary, Keir Starmer set about undermining Rebecca Long-Bailey – because her socialist politics and loyalty to trade unions were incompatible with his leadership.
Labour Disconnected
This week's Labour conference speech was the clearest indication yet of Keir Starmer's intention to retreat from socialist principles – and the radical transformation that this country desperately needs.
The 18th Brumaire of Donald Trump
This week we saw the natural culmination of Trumpism: a politics of pure conflict, which harnesses anger without a project of transformation, a revolt against a state of affairs which in reality it seeks to preserve.