Fascism is back – does Labour have the courage to defeat it?
Fascism is no longer a ghost of the past but a chilling reality. Donald Trump is doing as he promised. And what fools we were to take him lightly. People often wonder as to what the passive masses did...
View ArticleBeyond the special relationship – internationalism in the Age of Trump
Clowns to the left of her, jokers to the right – who’d be Theresa May right now? No sooner had her much-trailed trip to the US ended, a trip which was pregnant with more significance than usual thanks...
View ArticleDonald Trump – what he really means
Donald Trump is now the president of the USA. A man who is racist, homophobic, transphobic and sexist is the most powerful man in the world. He won as he understood the public mood better and heard...
View ArticlePolitics is realigning along open vs. closed boundaries – Labour must decide...
Across the world, reactionary forces are on the march. In America, Donald Trump is intent on closing US borders to history’s latest ‘other’ – Muslims. Meanwhile, the UK is now embarking on a ‘hard...
View ArticleLabour Members should Spend Less Time Tweeting About Trump and More Time...
It is a symptom of modern times that our attention span is so short. We are in an era where everyone, not just the much maligned ‘millennial’, uses social media to denounce their enemies. To tell the...
View ArticleThe good, the bad and the Bambi: some thoughts of a left-wing Jewess about...
I arrived in New York beyond excited to take on two research positions; one in NYC and one in a picturesque village upstate New York, both in the heartlands of the American liberal elites. The 9...
View ArticleThe outrage of liberals on both sides of the Atlantic is playing into the...
On both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, the right is leading the left into a trap. It was ever thus in the wake of economic catastrophe. Nearly ten years on from the beginning of the global financial...
View ArticleA US Democrat with some lessons for Labour about identity politics
I have seen and heard many people attributing the political woes of the left to its obsession with so-called “identity politics” rather than the economic concerns of the working class. While I am...
View ArticleStephy Burnett talks to Labour Vision about populism, immigration and Hillary...
“Hindsight is always 20:20, isn’t it?”, asks Stephy Burnett rhetorically in her inimitable American-Australian accent. She is responding to my provocative question about whether Bernie Sanders would...
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