Times A Wastin

Some months ago, I ran a series on Paul Mason’s latest views on how the Left in the Labour Party should respond to the election of Keir…

The lessons that the Left should learn are almost diametrically opposed to those that Paul has proposed. Rather than a collapse into the…

The fetishisation of winning elections, as against the building of a principled movement and party of the Left, leaves Paul chasing…

Labour’s 2019 Programme was a confused mess. At the heart of that mess was the contradiction it faced over its commitment to pursue Brexit…

“Because the liberal+centrist vote is clustered in the big cities, or in the exurban constituencies we already hold, there is no route to…

“As a result of this they have consolidated a new and highly defensible “position” (in the Gramscian metaphor): a populist, authoritarian…

Paul draws heavily on Gramscian concepts of strategy of “war of position”, “war of manoeuvre”, and the concept of “hegemony” to flesh out…

If we look at those voting for Brexit, they were overwhelmingly Tory voters, and they were reactionary Tory voters drawn predominantly…

When we look at this question of “values”, we find that they correlate extremely closely with the way people voted in relation to Brexit…