Is the future communist?
In an exclusive extract from Paul Mason’s new book, Reds: A Global History of Communism, he warns that, in the struggle between democracy and dictatorship, the entire history of the left is now in play
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The far left has a dictator problem
From Tehran to Beijing, parts of the left have become disturbingly willing to excuse authoritarian power
Read more →The 60% problem: Why a hotter climate is a crisis for the UK economy
Drought is hitting British farms just as war and supply shocks make our food supplies more vulnerable
Read more →The end of Putin is at last on the table – but we must be sceptical
An oligarch’s way out of war would give Russia and its dictator an easy ride, and may yet prove to be a con
Read more →A message to the UK – if you can’t keep up with the AI revolution, you’re toast
When it comes to AI, Britain is stuck between the US and China – and the choices are stark
Read more →Trump has made his biggest, most dangerous mistake yet
His deal to let Saudi Arabia develop a domestic, unregulated nuclear programme is a landmark moment in the disintegration of global order
Read more →The UK government warns there’s a 25% chance of catastrophic water failure
A new threat assessment says the country’s water system faces a new, more troubling level of threat – the only answer is nationalisation
Read more →The extent of Trump’s foreign policy humiliation is now clear
Disruption has failed – and America looks diminished and declining
Read more →A Critical National Infrastructure superministry could fix Britain
Burnham could end Treasury stagnation with a single department that centralised water, energy, transport and telecoms
Read more →Burnham’s biggest problem – UK leftists parroting Putin’s lies
Russia is losing the war in Ukraine, so the Kremlin is boosting its disinformation campaign. Unfortunately for the next PM, the British left are falling for it
Read more →After Brexit, “the special relationship” became a weakness
Out of Europe and reliant on an unreliable US, Britain has drifted towards strategic irrelevance. There is a way back – by engaging with the bloc of half a billion people that’s right on our doorstep
Read more →A message to the next PM – to avoid Starmer’s fate, concentrate on defence
This is Labour’s last chance to see off the threat of a 2029 Farage victory. There is one piece of advice that the next PM needs to hear
Read more →Labour’s Coalition Has Shattered, and Starmer Needs A Theory to Rebuild It
Labour bleeds four voters to the left for every one it loses to Reform — and cannot explain why. Source
Read more →How the global far right is attacking your mind
A brutal murder in Southampton has exposed the way political extremists influence and distort politics in other countries
Read more →Why have we let Putin get away with it for so long?
The Intelligence and Security Committee demanded a full inquiry into Russian meddling in British politics. It never happened. A new report makes clear that it needs to happen – now
Read more →Putinism has failed, and a new kind of threat has arrived
More than a million Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in Putin’s war in Ukraine. But he cannot back off. Instead, he will switch tactics. Ukraine – and the west – must be ready
Read more →The science is clear – the world is heading for water catastrophe
Scientists predict that, during the next century, entire regions of the earth will run out of water. And the day that a tap is turned on and nothing comes out, it will all be too late
Read more →It’s not about a new leader. It’s about a new story
Any replacement for Keir Starmer would face the same problems – and the need for a fresh narrative to match future challenges
Read more →The left has no concept of radical evil
The likes of Jeffrey Epstein rise while we try to rationalise and redeem
Read more →When war comes home: how should a government rule in times of conflict?
It is time for Britain to rewrite the rules on war powers. Better to do it now than to wait until hostilities break out. By then it will all be too late – and what’s more, Farage might be in power
Read more →Yes, AI can make our lives better. Here’s how
Instead of subsidising AI start-ups, the government needs to use the new technology for socially beneficial ends. But the real opportunity will be after the inevitable coming AI crash
Read more →The truth about Trump’s Iran downfall? The worst is yet to come
With Epic Fury’s epic fail, the president has given encouragement to aggressors everywhere
Read more →Europe’s escape plan from Trump’s chaos machine
The continent needs to take the crucial step towards ending US global economic dominance. Here’s how to do it
Read more →This attack on Jewish ambulances is a new kind of warfare
The aim of the people who targeted the ambulances outside a north London synagogue was all too clear – and the reaction of UK extremists on both the left and right was exactly what the attackers wanted
Read more →Iran has killed off Reeves’s fiscal rules. Here’s how to radically rewrite them
Bring back quantitative easing, reboot the OBR and – for a while – let inflation shrink the debt mountain
Read more →Britain needs militant democracy
Anti-democratic voices are gaining ground in British politics. Excessive tolerance of these people is the route to disaster – they must be confronted
Read more →The quislings of the right have abandoned patriotism
Their mud-slinging over Iran shows that Farage, Badenoch and the Mail prefer to side with US extremists than back their own country
Read more →Will AI destroy capitalism?
A recent report by a consultancy imagined a global economic crisis caused by artificial intelligence. The trouble is, they might just be on to something
Read more →Iran war: It’s time for Europe to become a superpower
We know what happens when the US breaks something and then walks away. The result is catastrophe. The problem is, Trump doesn’t really care
Read more →US attacks on Iran push the world towards chaos
Trump wants to decapitate the Iranian regime. But the danger now is a proliferating conflict that runs out of control
Read more →Britain Must Choose Europe—and Its Leaders Need to Admit It
The great powers have competing theories of victory; Britain's path leads inevitably to alignment with Europe. Source
Read more →Keir Starmer Finds His Fighting Spirit: Labour’s Blueprint to Beat Back the Far Right
With Reform surging ahead, Labour must win the narrative battle or face electoral oblivion by 2029. Source
Read more →Europe’s Far Right Copies Trump—And It’s Working
Leaked plans show Germany’s far right plotting a radical power grab with global implications. Source
Read more →Trump’s Tariff Gamble: Global Chaos or Calculated Concessions?
A looming trade war and security threats leave European leaders scrambling to decipher the American president's true intentions. Source
Read more →Britain’s Choice: Europe or a Collapsing America
As the USA withdraws from European security, Keir Starmer faces a defining moment: realign with Europe or cling to a fading alliance. Source
Read more →Britain at a Crossroads: financial turmoil meets political threats
Keir Starmer’s government finds itself on the frontline of a global power struggle. Source
Read more →Draghi, Putin and economic warfare in Europe
It has yet to dawn on Europe’s leaders, Paul Mason writes, that the whole continent is implicated in Russia’s war on Ukraine. Source
Read more →Paul Mason: ‘How we can defeat the new fascism in the wake of Britain’s January 6’
The riots that followed the Southport murders were not just driven by racism and Islamophobia. They were conceived,… The post Paul Mason: ‘How we can defeat the new fascism in the wake of Britain’s January 6’ appeared first on LabourList.
Read more →After Russia, Europe must wake up to China too
Europe’s real problem with China is not electric vehicles. It is the elemental vehemence of the Chinese Communist Party. Source
Read more →Europe’s defence industrial strategy: beyond the rhetoric
Whoever wins the US presidential election, Paul Mason writes, the EU has no option but to underpin its collective defence. Source
Read more →‘We’ll only hit net zero targets if we rip up planning rules in the first 100 days’
It wasn’t just auto-industry bosses Rishi Sunak blindsided with his net zero U-turn. By delaying the go-ahead for… The post ‘We’ll only hit net zero targets if we rip up planning rules in the first 100 days’ appeared first on LabourList.
Read more →‘The Big Lie film: Glastonbury should not screen Corbyn conspiracy theories’
The documentary Oh Jeremy Corbyn: The Big Lie has been drawing sizeable crowds to ticket-only showings and is… The post ‘The Big Lie film: Glastonbury should not screen Corbyn conspiracy theories’ appeared first on LabourList.
Read more →Why Britain’s strikers are popular
Read more →Truss was wrong about everything – except the OBR
Read more →Why the Met should become an actual police force
Read more →Braverman’s racist theatre of cruelty
Read more →China’s Weg
Read more →How to take a stand on racism
Read more →Lineker was right to highlight parallels with 1930s
Read more →The far-right will inherit from a shattered Tory party
Read more →Be proud of Labour’s support for Ukraine
Read more →Six ways Ukraine is winning…
Read more →Fear stalks Beijing as backing for Moscow fades
Read more →Das lange deutsche Zögern: Auf Messers Schneide
Read more →Conflict, chaos and instability – how do governments plan ahead?
Read more →After Sturgeon: where next for Scotland?
Read more →To go green we need a planning revolution
Read more →The Great Tory Skills Disaster
Read more →Why Sunak should lay off the Welsh NHS
Read more →Transform NHS into an engine of wellbeing
Read more →Stand firm on Ukraine – sending tanks is a start
Read more →Take back control – from the market
Read more →Time for a new UK strategy on defence
Read more →This Happy Breed? Not likely…
Read more →Hunt hands bankers a spiv’s charter
Read more →Tory inflation target makes recession worse
Read more →Learn to live with high migration
Read more →Brexit created the sick man of Europe
Read more →Mail’s tax outrage is a right-wing own goal
Read more →Truss comeback is a warning for the future
Read more →Zahawi playing into Putin’s hands… not nurses
Read more →Missiles a microcosm of defence austerity
Read more →It’s not just Brexit, the UK model is broken
Read more →Resist the siren call of austerity
Read more →Democrats look to a post-Biden future
Read more →Recession Made In Downing Street
Read more →Labour needs alternative to austerity
Read more →This is no U-turn – it’s a car crash
Read more →The sick man of Europe
Read more →The fiscal black hole is a falsehood
Read more →Drones show why military have to innovate or die
Read more →Sunak Has No Mandate for Austerity 2.0
Read more →How Brexit has damaged the collective Tory brain
Read more →Labour must reject Austerity 2.0
Read more →Musk, Cummings, Trump: Three stooges for Putin’s aggression
Read more →This is no U-turn. It’s a car crash
Read more →Tory war on solar is an act of self-destruction
Read more →The left’s fatal longing for life as usual
Read more →Labour Needs A Different Left
Read more →In Ukraine the West has a powerful weapon: time
Read more →Truss Faces A Sudden Stop
Read more →Ukraine: Is Vladimir Putin Bluffing?
Read more →Ukraine: Time Is A Powerful Weapon
Read more →Truss Tax U-Turn Worse Than It Looks
Read more →Manifesto for a Different Left
Read more →The Economist’s attack on woke. Cui bono?
Read more →When anti-vaxxers morph into far right extremists…
Read more →Interview: Stopping a second fascist era
Read more →Why we need antifascist laws
Read more →Fascism then, fascism now – a different danger
Read more →American fascists hail Taliban. Why?
Read more →Afghanistan explodes ‘Global Britain’ myth
Read more →The firewall is on fire – Observer profile
Read more →While you were glamping, Afghanistan has fallen
Read more →Only radical social transformation will avert climate change
Read more →Pablo Iglesias on basic income
Read more →Why we are entering a new great game
Read more →The ghost of Ayn Rand and Covid policy
Read more →Starmer needs to end Labour’s civil war
Read more →Engerland – the dialectic’s point of change
Read more →How to end the poison of online racism
Read more →1966. We won, then silence
Read more →Tbilisi, Philly: Using violence for purity
Read more →The sale of the UK’s largest chip plant
Read more →Labour’s victory in Batley and Spen
Read more →Labour’s struggles in Batley and Spen
Read more →Trump: the Stochastic President?
Read more →Pig, stupid and other fascist insults
Read more →The Tory attack on ‘white privilege’.
Read more →Brexit is not a dead issue
Read more →The threat of Labour defeat in Batley and Spen
Read more →Biden has grasped a basic truth
Read more →Booing the knee?
Read more →How the Covid shock has radicalised Gen Z
Read more →Tech authoritarianism and the NHS data grab
Read more →Inflation scare must not stop workers getting their dues
Read more →Labour must accept a progressive alliance
Read more →Lecture notes – socio-economic forces and the Paris Commune
Read more →Blair is pining for a centre that no longer exists
Read more →Labour’s route to power
Read more →Starmer needs the left to win
Read more →Only radical change will save Labour
Read more →Labour must embrace post-work future
Read more →European Super League: another football is possible
Read more →Russia invades Ukraine, the west paralysed
Read more →Why pop-up parties are on the rise
Read more →Tories are getting away with corruption
Read more →No one wants to stand for Starmer’s Labour
Read more →Vote leave policy dangerous for world
Read more →After Meghan and Harry- change or perish
Read more →Luxemburg was right
Read more →Budget shows need for alternative to austerity
Read more →Sunak signals Austerity Lite
Read more →Texas catastrophe and the planet
Read more →Labour must follow Biden’s example
Read more →Trump acquitted
Read more →Johnson’s probe into Left extremism is dangerous
Read more →Starmer is allowing Tory failure
Read more →The Left should not block Scottish Independence
Read more →Johnson will struggle to adapt to Biden
Read more →American Fascism is a deadly threat
Read more →The Trump insurrection, a Marxist analysis
Read more →We are all Antifa now!
Read more →Covid deniers are still dangerous
Read more →Johnson lost control of Covid again
Read more →Torys will blame Pandemic on Public
Read more →Trump shows the Tories can be beaten
Read more →New Zealand’s report on the Far-Right
Read more →Labour’s destructive civil war must end
Read more →Digital warfare erodes distinctions
Read more →The UK must embrace a European future
Read more →To defeat the far right the UK and US left need a strategy
Read more →Even if Biden Wins, the Democrats have been exposed
Read more →Reinstate Jeremy Corbyn
Read more →Even if Trump’s defeated the left must fight Trumpism
Read more →Burnham spoke the language of class struggle
Read more →Covid has turned the UK into a ‘Frankenstate’
Read more →How To Stop Fascism – to be published by Allen Lane May 2021
Read more →This house believes this is the end of capitalism
Read more →Why Starmer can’t afford to lose the left
Read more →The International Brigades by Giles Tremlett- Review
Read more →Trump has shown how he will use far right vioelnce
Read more →Starmer’s conference speech lacked vision
Read more →How the UK is destroying itself over Brexit
Read more →Why capitalism can’t deliver sustainability
Read more →Why the Tories are prepared to break the law over Brexit
Read more →Politicians must confront Q-Anon
Read more →The Democrats need a plan to stop Trump’s election bid
Read more →The Conservatives outsourced blame for public scandals
Read more →Labour won’t win turning its back on refugees
Read more →China’s brutal authoritarianism
Read more →Authoritarianism, an urgent political issue
Read more →The left, the party and the class
Read more →Neoliberal Austerity is bad, pre-fascist authoritarianism is worse
Read more →This is a moment for UBI
Read more →Our labour movement must show solidarity with democracy activists in Hong Kong
After China unilaterally imposed its national security law on Hong Kong, effectively subverting the rule of law in… The post Our labour movement must show solidarity with democracy activists in Hong Kong appeared first on LabourList.
Read more →How to imagine the death of capitalism
Read more →The UK needs a defence revolution
Read more →Sunak’s PR Strategy
Read more →Johnson’s fake new deal
Read more →How the Labour Left must change
Read more →Denied the far right, the Wages of Whiteness
Read more →Labour must lead the anti-racist movement
Read more →Seven reflexes of Resistance
Read more →Trump declares war on US democracy
Read more →Cummings, did Covid come from China?
Read more →What 700 years of falling interest rates tell us
Read more →Labour must outline a radical alternative
Read more →Furlough challenges show austeritiy’s logic endures
Read more →The Uk’s culture divide is making Labour cautious
Read more →The Crisis of the Conservative Mind
Read more →Why its dangerous to believe the bounce back
Read more →Toda la zona euro puede convertirse en Grecia
El Confidencial, Spain – Interview
Read more →Il Coronavirus è una sfida al mondo
Interview with Fanpage.it
Read more →End Bank of England independence
Coronavirus means central banks have to lend direct to governments
Read more →Pablo Iglesias on Spain’s basic income scheme
Read more →To Fight the Economic Crisis
Read more →Johnson’s hard Brexit spoiled by C-19
Six week delay in UK government action was inspired by delusions about free trade
Read more →Ten Lessons of Corbynism
Read more →After Coronavirus, a new struggle begins
Read more →Capital and Ideology- Thomas Piketty in review
Read more →UK managed democracy looms
Johnson now has the power to squash the independent judiciary and sideline international commitments on human rights
Read more →Corbynism is over – learn the lessons
Labour’s left has to break with centralised control and build social movements
Read more →IL RITORNO DELL’IMPERO
Nato in una famiglia della working class del nord dell’Inghilterra, Paul Mason è un profondo conoscitore di quelle zone depresse, di quel “muro rosso” che si è sgretolato davanti all’avanzata della xenofobia nazionalista-conservatrice.
Read more →NEW! After Corbynism: Where next for Labour (v1.4)
Where does Labour go next after its 2019 election failure. A new e-pamphlet from Paul Mason. Click above for PDF. Version 1.4 updated 16 December.
Read more →How can Labour win from here? 10 things every activist must do
I’ve spent three Saturdays on the doors in marginals and, though it’s tough in places, we’re making progress.… The post How can Labour win from here? 10 things every activist must do appeared first on LabourList.
Read more →Labour’s fiscal plans reframed
Massive emphasis on borrowing versus taxation in switch to Green New Deal
Read more →Plymouth: an election in the dark…
Where GP shortages and poverty are the focus for Labour – not Brexit
Read more →True meaning of Johnson-Farage pact
Britain’s election may come down to tactical voting – to defend democracy
Read more →Can Labour get people to focus beyond Brexit?
On the doorsteps in Milton Keynes, where Labour is targeting two Tory held seats.
Read more →Politics as self care for the rich
Why the Conservative election launch is mired in scandals and apologies
Read more →How Noel Coward made me a Marxist
Class struggle and the crisis of the establishment drove my teenage self to revolt in the 1970s
Read more →Brexit crunch approaches…
If Corbyn can’t form an interim government, he can still shape and limit its goals.
Read more →How to break the Brexit impasse
The UK needs an interim government with a very short to do list
Read more →When the time value of money evaporates
As quantitative easing resumes, both central banks and governments are running out of ideas. Here’s a solution…
Read more →Interview with Republik.ch about Clear Bright Future
Die Synergie von künstlicher Intelligenz und neoliberaler Ideologie ist extrem bedrohlich
Read more →Boris Johnson’s strategy of tension
The chaos of Britain’s parliamentary suspension crisis is preplanned.
Read more →Jeremy Corbyn must personally back Remain
Unions mobilise to enforce “left Brexit” line
Read more →Labour’s one realistic option: back Remain
The economic nationalist left reaches a dead end.
Read more →How to lose an election
Ignoring the polling evidence lay at the heart of Labour’s 23 debacle
Read more →Labour’s Brexit nightmare
Corbyn slumps to 14% in European poll as party strategists get it wrong.
Read more →To the postcapitalist city
What would you have called the social system in Amsterdam in 1619?
Read more →Building bridges to Remainia…
If the Labour Party wants to win, its strategy has to change
Read more →North-South divide
City regions with fiscal autonomy needed to bridge England’s power gap
Read more →Huawei exposes UK’s geopolitical dilemma
Block the Chinese tech giant on security grounds, but stop playing the neocons’ game
Read more →Werden Unregierbar
Wie können wir den Faschismus stoppen? Sechs Vorschläge…
Read more →Interview with CCCB Barcelona
Les tecnologies de la informació minvaran la necessitat de feina
Read more →Manifesto of a Marxist snowflake
Interview in the Irish Times on Clear Bright Future
Read more →Risks are a thing… thoughts on MMT
The Green New Deal needs a class struggle, not an accounting exercise.
Read more →Notre Dame was built to last forever
This is like losing the hard drive of medieval Paris.
Read more →The new spirit of Postcapitalism
Reading the urban landscape through post-work eyes…
Read more →Little England’s revolution is over
Why Theresa May abandoned her two year strategy to seek talks with Corbyn
Read more →May snaps under Corbyn’s pressure
How the Labour leader forced the British PM to play ball over Brexit.
Read more →Boeing: the first automation disaster?
When human systems fail.
Read more →Britain’s impossible futures
The UK parliament is at an impasse, the latest vote producing a majority for a renegotiation of its departure from Europe that the EU cannot grant. Both main parties risk fracture. So does the UK.
Read more →Break up big tech
The great technologists believe that society exists outside of them. We must fragment technological monopolies until they behave
Read more →Boris and the bananas
Johnson sold the dream of hard Brexit to the British people. Now the fantasies of the right-wing Conservatives have collided with reality
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