Can Labour Break Free?
Editorial // Anthony Painter
Labour’s ‘institutional turn’ must strive to empower individuals and communities, resisting bureaucracy and paternalism.
Street-Level Climate Politics
Roundtable // Cllr Jon Burke, Mika Minio-Paluello
Labour currently governs most of Britain’s cities and large towns. How can it use this power to respond to the challenge of climate change?
‘No jobs on a dead planet’: The Greening of the US Labor Movement
Feature // Franziska Paul
The new paradigm of ‘energy democracy’ challenges older, ‘jobs-first’ varieties of trade unionism.
Rebuilding our Institutions: Social Security for the Future
Review essay // Nick Garland, Rachel Reeves MP
Three recent books engage with the challenges of building institutions that can deliver real social security and empower people as workers and citizens.
Public Ownership: Two Responses
Response // Cat Hobbs, Satoko Kishimoto
A discussion of Thomas Hanna’s ‘Our Common Wealth’.
Review: Tim Rogan, ‘The Moral Economists’
Review // Jon Cruddas MP
A new study of Polanyi, Tawney and Thompson shows the need for an ethical, humanist critique of capitalism.
Big Politics, Big Organising, and Internationalism: How the Left can Win
Essay // Adam Klug, Emma Rees
The left must work together across national borders to combat the threat of the far right.
The Cosmopolitan Rejoinder
Roundtable // James Stafford, George Morris
Professor Mary Kaldor in conversation with James Stafford and George Morris
Turning Against China
Commentary // Andrew Small
Washington is giving up on decades of attempts to integrate China within a US-led world order.
Prevent, Muslim Identity and the Normalisation of Neoliberalism
Feature // Antonio Perra
The government’s ‘Prevent’ strategy is driven by a neoliberal conception of ‘normality’ which is individualistic, depoliticised and rigidly secular.
