Category: Political Theory

When it comes to politics, theory has got a bad name. And it is all capitalism’s fault.

Mike Stanton looked to Trotsky to explain the lack of left unity, but did he look in the right place?

Left unity matters. We need to understand what divides us and use the revival of class struggle and public protest to build unity in action.

Modern Monetary Theory makes revolutionary economic claims but is in fact just a flawed defence of reformism.

Are there parallels between Tory attacks on the disabled and the Nazi policy of extermination? Is creeping fascism a threat?

In fact, it would not be hyperbolic to suggest that every minor detail of human behaviour – from aesthetic preference to modus operandi – can be predetermined based on an analysis of…

In his book, Drums in the distance – journeys into the global far right, Joe Mulhall describes his experiences of far right movements around the world.   He watches these movements, often from the…

Have you ever wondered what it felt like to be present at the end of the Roman Empire? According to Donald Wasson, Rome grew from a few thousand citizens to over…

Over the past forty years or so, neoliberalism has contributed to the impoverishment of our language by the misuse of certain words. The aim of a Neoliberalspeak dictionary is to give some…

Socialists want socialism, but rarely say what that means or how they will achieve it. Perhaps we need to think it through.