The making of a (left-wing) Covid Dissident – Part II
In part two, Phil Shannon calls for a new Left which capitalises on the lessons of Covid, particularly the centrality of freedom from state tyranny.
In part two, Phil Shannon calls for a new Left which capitalises on the lessons of Covid, particularly the centrality of freedom from state tyranny.
In part one Phil Shannon explores the first two stages of the formation of a left-wing Covid dissident.
It’s not just lockdown. The Real Left is a space for those of the Left who oppose the whole agenda of global capitalism – and who still believe in the Real.
In part two Lorraine explores how a principled Left needs to relate to – and work within – the working class in a modern economy in the twenty first century.
In the first part of this two-part article, Lorraine Pratley makes a case for the relevance of the left, in the light of what many would consider its total failure.
Chris R argues the ruling class is not what the Left thinks and is worse than it imagines. The Left’s turbo-charged version of a Davos talk makes them laugh.
At the dawn of a brutal new phase of the class war, the Left sided with the oppressor, writes Chris R in part one. Not since the vast majority of the European Left swung behind the war parties in 1914 has the movement made such a disastrous misstep.