Ruling Class

Ruling Class

• Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx’s Lost Theory - book review

  

  Mike Davis punctures many myths about Marx and shows how important the history of working-class struggle remains for today, finds Dominic Alexander

• Whether Theresa May wins or loses this no confidence vote, her time is up

  

  There is no clear way out for May, and only one solution for the country - she has got to go

• Averting chaos: class, climate change and the movements

  

  Profit and powerful interests are precipitating planetary disaster. Protests such as Saturday's in London must be developed into a mass movement to force political change, argues Feyzi Ismail

• Notes on a dying ideology

  

  John Rees on how Brexit is an expression of a crisis for one set of establishment ideas

• Don’t look here, look there: the one percent, inequality and Jeremy Corbyn - weekly briefing

  

  The rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer isn’t a fact of life; it’s a set of politics that we can change, argues Lindsey German 

• The dominant ideas in society

  

  Ruling elites use agendas and debates to maintain their control, exposing this cannot be dismissed as conspiracism, argues Des Freedman 

• After the final days of May

  

  This is the start of a new phase of the crisis, not the end of it, writes John Rees

• The royal wedding: a grateful subject gives thanks

  

  Never mind austerity, feast on the joy that is a royal wedding and stop moaning, says Jonathan Maunders

• Royal wedding alienation

  

  Marx200: Why do working class people get swept up in the orchestrated, costly drama of a Royal wedding? The answer lies in Marx’s theory of alienation.

• When the ruling class can't rule in the old way - weekly briefing

  

  The establishment is losing control, but there is a way out for them, if the left lets its guard down, warns John Rees

• All the President’s men are symbols of our times - weekly briefing

  

  Charity begins at the Playboy Club for our capitalist class, writes Lindsey German 

• Trump sends for the Marines: what could possibly go wrong? - weekly briefing

  

  The Trump administration is like a cross between the declining Roman Empire and a reality show that has gone wrong

• Survival is victory: the facts and fictions of the Dunkirk evacuation

  

  Dunkirk 1940 has always been an ideological field day for our ruling class, Chris Bambery cuts through the fog of war  

• Britain's blossoming political crisis

  

  Both mainstream parties will continue their convulsive evolution in the coming year, writes Brian Heron

• The Death of Louis XIV: feudalism’s last gleaming

  

  Tom Lock Griffiths locates a unique performance at the heart of Albert Serra’s study of aristocratic and corporeal decay

• The Nazis and the British establishment

  

  In the TV series SS-GB key figures from the British ruling class take part in the resistance against Nazi occupation. But, as Chris Bambery argues, this would have been an unlikely scenario

• The tinder before the spark: pre-revolutionary Russia in snapshot

  

  The preconditions of the Russian Revolution were hidden in plain sight, describes Vladimir Unkovski-Korica

• What is really going on at Trump Tower and why it isn't fascism

  

  Inappropriate use of the F-word misleads and disorientates at a time when clarity is key, warns Chris Nineham

• Wall Street’s Think Tank

  

  Wall Street’s Think Tank shows that the Council on Foreign Relations is a pivotal institution for the US ruling class, finds Dominic Alexander

• David Cameron and the rituals of the rich

  

  The rituals and secret-keeping of Britain’s privately educated elites are a cornerstone of Conservative Party unity