How Livio Maitan Anticipated European Remilitarisation: "Organising the Defence at the Level of the Attack"
The European social question then and now, and the trap the left keeps walking into
Owen Jones' Empty Wards
He built a fund to elect socialists, cross-party. By May its map was a Green ward list, 191 nameless.
The One Thing The SWP Cannot Grant
Marxism 2026, and why the real argument between the IST and the Fourth International is no longer about theory
What Socialist Outlook Saw
Reading the IMG- & WSL-tradition’s journal from the late 1980s, with a view to the present
Fourteen Thousand: The number everyone cites and almost no one checks
With Washington and Moscow, Part 7
Is there a future for town hall socialism?
The argument was never the budget. It was always who fights.
No cuts, and then what? Why 'No cuts' is a red line, not a negotiating position.
Postscript: The pledge proposal will return in September
In the Greens, Against Absorption: What Anticapitalistas Can Teach the rs21 Comrades Debating the Question
At rs21’s ‘Ballot Box or Barricade?’ panel, part of its Festival of the Oppressed in London on 20 and 21 June, a session on electoral work circled one question and never closed it
The Buses Have Gone Yellow: Manchesterism, the technocrat, and the terrain administered from above
Part 4 of “The Terrain of Survival”
How ‘Consistent Democracy’ Lost Its Verb, Gaining a Moralised Preference for Capitalism
Part 2 of 'The Drift"
The Interregnum Begins in Britain
Starmer Goes. Burnham Arrives. Labourism is Unchanging. But the left outside Labour has no lever to pull here
What Makerfield Tells the Socialist Federation
The amendment that Makerfield makes necessary
The ‘Resistance’ That Is a Business
Postscript: A Victory. For Whom? The IRGC's deal with Trump turns the ‘axis of resistance’ into a commercial prospectus.
"I'm a Dealer" - Gregor Gall's Mick Lynch
The Man Who Wouldn't Arm His Members
In Every Ward, a Line in the Sand
The anti-austerity pledge campaign could give the left a tool in every ward and a mass conference to build on it.
Nazi-Infested, Unless It’s Russia: The double standard at the heart of campist politics
With Washington and Moscow, Part 6
Listen to Grace, Not Zack
The Green Party’s left has a strategic choice to make. It probably does not know it is making it.
The Ladder Built in Midair: Part One of 'The Vanguard in Retreat'
What the Connections convention revealed about the dispersed layer, the Greens question, and the double mechanism wearing down the socialist left in England
What the Connections Convention Needs to Hear
The Socialist Federation is being born. Scotland and Cymru are ahead of England. And the Workers’ Party of Britain is not a comrade.
'Don't Vote Reform' Fails Makerfield
The Green campaign is the terrain SUTR cannot reach. The left’s job is to build something there that outlasts the count.
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