Back to The Future of Socialism
Back to The Future of Socialism, a new book by the Labour MP and former Cabinet minister Peter Hain, is a bold effort to reimagine for today the most influential text by a British social democrat of the last century.
Politics
Syriza and the agony of Greece
The rise of Greece’s Syriza may signal the emergence of a revitalised European social democracy.
10 books for 2015
There will be many others I don’t yet know about. And I’m sure I will not read everything listed below. But here are 10 books to be published in 2015 I’m looking forward to, summarised in alphabetical order.
Yes/No, Southern Gothic and the Architecture of Doom
I usually close out my blog for the year with a simple roundup of books I’ve particularly enjoyed. But 2014 has seemed a rather strange, transitional period, for reasons I’m still trying to define, so I thought I’d write a somewhat longer retrospective in the hope of making some sense of it.
Labour’s Alternative Economic Strategy, 40 Years On
That Option No Longer Exists: Britain 1974–76 by John Medhurst recalls a febrile period when the left came close to implementing a radical socialist economic strategy.
Nationalism(s) by the Clyde
Some 12,000 SNP members, 3,500 Radical Independence supporters, several hundred bemused Country Living Christmas Fair shoppers, and – at least one – very quiet Labour member found themselves assembled on the banks of the Clyde on Saturday (22 November).
Labour’s radical soil
Scottish Labour needs to offer the kind of practical, transformative radicalism that helps people where they need it most.