Brexit and the left
The Labour Party has squandered three years in addressing the challenge posed by the Brexit referendum.
Neal Lawson
Averting the death of social democracy
Reformist social democracy has just two problems that result in its crisis. The first is that it’s heading in the wrong direction. The second is
People’s Vote On Brexit: Be Careful What You Wish For
When thinking about Brexit and Europe, we should remember the words of Hans Magnus Enzensberger: short term hopes are futile – long term resignation is suicidal.
How Social Democrats Can Bring Real Change
How do social democrats change things? The traditional method has been to win elections, inhabit the state, pull the levers of the state and hey
Five Radical Ideas For Beating Inequality
Scratch the skin of any social democrat and s/he bleeds equality. Because of structural weakness we water the concept down into social justice or fairness
Zygmunt Bauman: A Beacon Of Hope In The Darkness
I don’t know what to do. A world that was getting darker suddenly turned pitch black. Zygmunt Bauman is dead. The towering intellectual colossus of
Social Democracy Without Social Democrats? How Can The Left Recover?
UK Labour has suffered another bad set of election results. But the failure of Labour is not the fault of the Corbynites or the Blairites.
Towards A Social Democracy Based On Facebook Culture
If you were a European social democrat looking to Labour for light at the end of the left’s long and dark electoral tunnel last month
Surfers Without Waves – Is Social Democracy Dead In The Water?
Is social democracy already dead and like the proverbial headless chicken are we simply running round the yard on instinct before we topple over for