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Ruling Class
Ruling Class
Royalty, republicanism and the ruling class: Why we booed Prince William
Peter Dwyer explains why he and other Liverpool FC fans booed the monarchy at the FA Cup final in Wembley
Johnson is running out of rope over lockdown parties - CounterBlast
Tory MPs are squirming over whether to save their leader or their own political careers, writes Sean Ledwith
Police protection: Boris Johnson and Cressida Dick – weekly briefing
Lindsey German on the Tory crisis and the Ukrainian standoff
The ghost of Corbynism still haunts Johnson – weekly briefing
Lindsey German on the persistence of our ideas
The price we pay for the prince – weekly briefing
Lindsey German considers the role of ruling class figureheads in maintaining the status quo
Who starts it? Violence, protest and what the police are really for
Attempts to defend the police in Bristol ignore the essential role of policing in society and the hostility to protests and pickets, argues Chris Nineham
The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty - review
The BBC’s three-part documentary series on Rupert Murdoch and his media empire gives an intimate view of ruling class power and the challenges to it, writes Tom Whittaker
The sociopathic calculus of capitalism in a crisis
The ruling class is debating whether or not it's worth saving the lives of those it can no longer exploit; this is barbarism, writes Kevin Ovenden
Macron and the shockwaves
There’s everything to fight for as Covid-19 redraws the lines of class war in modern France, observes John Mullen
Message to the government: your friends, the super-rich, are the hoarders - CounterBriefing 21 March
The government is trying to deflect blame from its failings by blaming ordinary people for the shortages, argues Katherine Connelly
Meghan and Harry: the royal descent of an archaic institution
The monarchy serves only to normalise inequality, so let Harry and Meghan go forth and shake it up, writes Sofie Mason
Born to rule over us? – weekly briefing
Lindsey German on privilege and democracy, state control, and standing up to the Jewish Board of Deputies
Boris the bully comes up short – election briefing 20 November
Lindsey German on the first broadcast debate, the super-rich, our ruling class, and Palestine
We need a general election now, whether it’s in the ‘national interest’ or not
There is nothing for Labour to gain from putting the ‘national interest’ first and delaying a general election, argues Shabbir Lakha
Dirty tricks: the British State and the left
Recent attacks on Corbyn are part of the British state's long history of undemining the left, writes Chris Nineham
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