BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
What kind of leader do we need? Messiah? Prophet? Technocrat?
Now running as an independent, former Labour MP EMMA DENT COAD looks at how consistent honesty and integrity may be the missing elements needed to drag political leadership out of the gutter
Campaigner and former Labour MP Emma Dent Coad
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research explores the factors that are bringing today’s highly educated but often underemployed young people out onto the streets, from Chile, to Algeria, to Nepal
The nation’s leading second-hand socialist bookseller that has been running strong for 33 years is changing hands and expanding its vision — now is the time to get involved, buy, donate and support, writes ANDREW MURRAY
AS we begin what will undoubtedly be a very difficult year for us all, suffering multiple failures in local, national and international politics, we should be asking ourselves what kind of leadership could possibly steer us out of the economic, climate and social crises we are facing.
Jon Cruddas is not someone with whom I would often agree these days — though I liked his “A Good Society” pitch some years back — but his Guardian article of December 30, “Keir Starmer lacks a clear sense of purpose,” has articulated, in bold but moderate terms, what many feel within as well as outside the Labour Party.
In a build-up to his book, A Century of Labour, which is out this month, Cruddas criticises Starmer’s “detachment from his party’s traditions.” He says, “little ties Starmer to the ethical and spiritual corners of Labour’s early founders,” and then goes on to criticise the leader’s approach to economics, inequality, justice, welfare, liberty, freedom — pretty much everything really.
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