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In mid-2020, we switched to a new, edition-focused publishing model. Below, you can find everything New Socialist published from our inception in 2017 up until that shift.
This is a chapter from AK Press's Why Don't the Poor Rise Up, which is out now.
What exactly is “folk” about “folk politics”?
The question of trade union decline is one that’s central to understanding labour relations and political discourse within Britain today.
Ever since Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party, commentators have revelled in the idea that this left a vacant space in the political centre ground, waiting to be occupied by the right party.
There is one particular case study which may benefit the UK left the most: the turbulent Premiership of Gough Whitlam, Australia’s Great Reformer.
There’s a difference between policies and power. If a left-wing party wants to turn its manifesto promises into political practice it needs to construct the capacity to do so.