Donald Trump has not been the only person responsible for the most primitive forms of racism and xenophobia recorded in his four years of government. His team and the Republican Party (as much as the Democratic Party) are responsible for the xenophobic management of the migration problem, responding to the demands of a right-leaning electorate drawn from all social classes and all parties.
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Conservatism, compassion, calculation, and Covid: Humanity’s end state
Marcus Rashford, footballer for Manchester United, made a political splash, when he successfully challenged the government to extend free school meals during the summer holidays. Steve Latham Initially they had refused, but the swell of public support forced them to reconsider. In recognition Rashford even received an MBE […]
Marx and the society of the spectacle
Guy Debord’s “Society of the spectacle” was first published in France in 1968 and it remains closely associated with the country’s events of that incendiary year. Sean Sheehan This fails to do justice to its sober analysis of society and, with a new edition just published, it is […]
Biden: victory without vision?
It’s easy to say that US-Americans didn’t elect Joe Biden so much as they neglected to re-elect Donald Trump. Biden’s victory was hardly what you would call decisive. Darrin Burgess* Of the nearly 150 million votes cast, he came out ahead by all of five million. The electoral […]
Alexander Bogdanov: Lenin’s ex-comrade in arms
Alexander Bogdanov should not be forgotten and White’s new biography, “Red Hamlet”, will help rehabilitate one of the brightest from that star class of intellectuals and activists without whom the Russian Revolution could not continue to burn brightly in our political and cultural memory. Sean Sheehan He met […]
















