Liberalism

Liberalism

• Liberalism At Large: The World According to the Economist - book review

  

  Zevin’s history of the Economist magazine opens up a rich angle from which to observe the nature and development of liberalism across 180 years, finds Dominic Alexander

• Centrism’s pyrrhic victory - CounterBlast 8 April

  

  Bernie Sanders has suspended his campaign, but the conditions that gave rise to his popularity haven't gone away, argues Katherine Connelly

• Defining the battle lines: France in the era of Macron

  

  Three years on from Macron's election, Susan Ram looks back at the rise of the 'extreme centre' in France

• Blackface scandal threatens Trudeau's progressive act

  

  The blackface scandal Justin Trudeau is embroiled in threatens to tear apart his thin veneer of progressivism, argues John Clarke

• Are the liberal middle class on the verge of a nervous breakdown?

  

  Following on from his previous article, Mike Wayne analyses the collective breakdown of the liberal middle class as we inch towards Brexit

• Canada joins campaign to stifle criticism of Israel

  

  Canada becomes the next major player in the international drive to weaponise false allegations of antisemitism to protect Israel, writes John Clarke

• A Canadian genocide

  

  Challenging Canadian colonialism means challenging Canadian capitalism, argues John Clarke

• To defeat the Blairite splitters and plotters the left must learn the lessons of history

  

  The Blairites are a threat to Corbyn, but the left has the resources to win and there are important differences with the era of the SDP split, argues Vladimir Unkovski-Korica

• A tale of two austerities

  

  The UK’s brutal austerity regime is acting as a template for similar programmes across the Atlantic in Canada, reports John Clarke

• Equating fascism with Brexit is disastrous, irresponsible and gives a hand up to Tommy Robinson

  

  Arguments tying opposition to fascism with opposition to Brexit makes out half the country as Tommy Robinson supporters. This is idiotic in the extreme, argues Kevin Ovenden

• Justin Trudeau: The photogenic face of neoliberalism

  

  Behind its enlightened and progressive posturing, Trudeau’s Liberal government plays a reactionary role in Canadian society and the world, argues Ontario-based John Clarke

• Alabama: you cannot be a socialist and an elitist

  

  You cannot understand the Alabama result if you divide and deride working class voters. Throw out elite centrism and look at class, argues Kevin Ovenden

• The Strange Death of Liberal England - book review

  

  A classic history of the years before World War I is also a source of inspiration for those who wish to create a more equal and just society, argues Alex Snowdon

• Trump strikes, liberals cheer

  

  The reaction from many liberals to Trump's attack on Syria has exposed their faux opposition to him, writes John Rees

• The liberal delusion: why fighting Brexit is a bad idea

  

  As thousands march against Brexit, Reuben Bard-Rosenberg takes a look at the politics behind the protest

• The left and the crisis of the liberal centre

  

  A new political alignment is taking place against Corbyn and the left, argues John Rees

• Exit Obama: the strange death of American liberalism

  

  After eight years of Democratic rule, the American brand of liberalism that accompanied the country’s rise to global hegemony looks exhausted

• The Tories’ civil war: why do they do it to themselves?

  

  The Tories' brewing civil war over Europe is not the first to divide the party

• Nick Clegg and the second strange death of Liberalism

  

  Alastair Stephens on how Nick Clegg managed to wreck both his party and the project that was the purpose of the coalition - to make coalitions an acceptable part of British politics

• 15 recommended articles on the aftermath of the Paris attacks

  

  Alex Snowdon compiles a selection of commentary and analysis about the contentious issues arising from the recent attacks in Paris

• The limits of liberalism

  

  Liberal responses to the Paris killings are fuelling a cycle from which both the right and the terrorists will gain, argues John Rees