Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
How has social democracy failed us?
Social democracy is not simply the gradualist, reformist wing of our movement — a peaceful approach to establishing socialism — but a fundamentally opposing ideology of capitalism and war, explain's the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
FIRST GREAT BETRAYAL: WWI would not be the last time social-democratic parties backed the slaughter of the working class, as they continue to support the logic of imperialist war to this day
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ, ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY contrast Trump’s warships and F-35 fighters threatening Venezuela with the $20bn bailout for Milei’s collapsed economy, all enabled by a highly ideological IMF
KAY GREEN explains how the Middle East and colonialism were explored at at last weekend’s FiLiA conference
ROS SITWELL reports from Europe’s largest feminist conference – hosted this year in Brighton
Morning Star campaigns manager CALVIN TUCKER gives an update on the drive to raise £95,000 to see the people’s paper keep fighting the good fight against the rich and powerful
EVEN worse than the appalling spectacle of the mendacious incompetence of the Tory Party is the absence of any significant leadership from the supine leaders of the Labour Party.
That lack — of any significant policies; of any clear direction beyond the bland slogan of a “fairer, greener future” is the clearest indication of the bankruptcy of ideas in its leader, Keir Starmer and his supporters.
An earlier Q&A in this series, number 50, summarised the history of the various parties that have used the term Social Democratic in their titles. It also touched on some of the ideas that have animated these parties.
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