The need for supply side socialism
There’s an important fact that’s lost in the debate about economic policy. It’s that counter-cyclical policy is nothing like sufficient. Perhaps we need something radical.
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How the Left learnt to stop worrying and love Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Zizek is accepted as left-wing, even a kind of Marxism, because most Marxists long ago abandoned the rational and material values of the social democratic Second International.
Hugo Chavez: what the media are saying
Left Foot Forward looks at the media’s reaction to the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Comment: Greens solidify their reputation as the only real alternative to Labour
At the weekend, the Green Party took a formal step forward to solidify that position, as their spring conference in Nottingham voted with a majority of 71% to amend its constitution to commit to social justice and the “transformation of society for the benefit of the many not the few”. Their constitutional amendment should help strengthen their position as the only significant party to the left of Labour.
Occupy and its Indian sister movement are fighting the same battles
Dr Kailash Chand OBE highlights the global nature of the occupy movement by showing its links with the Anna Hazare anti-corruption movement in India.
Top videos of 2011: #2: “I’m Owen Jones, and I bloody love socialism!”
We continue the countdown of the ten best videos of 2011 with Owen Jones versus the public sector strikers.
There is a role for the Left in the EU, if it wants it
Dionyssis Dimitrakopoulos argues that there is a role for the left in the EU, but it can’t take that up if it abdicates its voice.