Gaza’s collective sumud has proven more powerful than one of the world’s best-equipped militaries, but the change in international attitudes isn’t happening fast enough to save a starving population from Western-backed genocide, argues RAMZY BAROUD
The old ‘new parties’ of the left
As the prospect of an alternative to Labour looms thanks to Keir Starmer’s purge of leftwingers, ANDREW MURRAY reviews the fortunes of similar attempts made in the last 30 years
George Galloway celebrates his win as Respect MP in the Bradford West by-election, 2012
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
JOHN PERRY, BECCA RENK and ROGER D HARRIS offer a corrective to the idea that Latin America still lags far behind the West on women’s rights by looking at the region’s significant feminist gains now stretching back decades
Danni Perry’s flag display at the Royal Opera House sparked 182 performers to sign a solidarity letter that cancelled the Tel Aviv Tosca production, while Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Tel Aviv hotels, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
AN unavoidable consequence of Keir Starmer’s evisceration of the left in the Labour Party, with an authoritarian brutality unprecedented in the party’s history, is the resurrection of ideas of forming a new party of socialists.
That is a well-trodden road. The novelty today lies not only in the undemocratic atrocities of the Starmer regime — the vetoes, proscriptions, purging and blocking — but the background of the great groundswell of support for radical policies of the Corbyn years. That is a movement now looking for a home.
Does this make a new socialist party viable? There is a heavy legacy of failure to overcome.
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