On the triumph of Starmerism and the tragedy of the Labour left

Labour’s recent party conference has a noticeably different mood about it compared to last year. It was far more confident, and so was Starmer himself. While there is still a notable sense of caution, justified since this isn’t the first time it looked like Labour was about to win, the confidence exuded from the 2022…

Don’t blame Gorbachev, the USSR was doomed with or without him

On August 30th, the news broke that Mikhail Gorbachev, the last premier of the USSR, had passed away after a long illness. Up to this point he was the last living leader of the USSR, and the man who long held the dubious honour of being the last man in charge when the world’s largest…

The reformist urge to romanticise the Corbyn years

As the cost of living crisis becomes ever more severe, civil and democratic rights come increasingly under attack, relations with the EU strain, and the corruption, cruelty and incompetence of the Tories is increasingly apparent, one of the more persistent responses online is people making post after post saying “Corbyn was right”, “,we should have…

The degeneration of the “anti-imperialist” left and its consequences

Before Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24th, many of us in the left, myself included, were highly sceptical of the prospect that Russia might invade Ukraine to begin with. We had our reasons, but we turned out to be wrong. In the days and weeks since, we in the left have had to reconcile our…

My issues with the Communist Party of Britain

As the contradictions of capitalism unravel and sharpen every day, and as the right radicalises and takes on a more viciously reactionary form, the need for a party of the working class strong enough to fight the tide of neofascism and bring about socialism becomes ever more apparent. With Labour having totally capitulated to the…

The socialist case for Welsh independence

Introduction: The Impasse of British Wales I have written frequently about the dire state of my country on this blog. Our economy has suffered greatly as a result of both the COVID-19 pandemic and the complications of the government’s Brexit deal. We are soon to be hit with a cost of living crisis that the…

Jeremy Corbyn should absolutely start his own party

I normally don’t like to dabble in rumour and gossip, but the story I’m about to talk about is simply too interesting in its implications to ignore. Recently, rumours have been spreading that former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, having privately accepted that the Labour Party will not restore the Labour whip to him, might launch…

Why the fall of communism was a disaster for Eastern Europe, and the world

Introduction: Thirty Years of Delusion On Christmas Day in 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev, then the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, declared his intention to resign as president of the USSR, and to hand the presidency to Boris Yeltsin. By this point, the collapse of the USSR was already seen as a…

The impasse of the “anti-idpol” left

Introduction: What “Anti-Idpol” Was It almost seems like a distant memory, a dismal and taudry one you wish you could flush down the toilet with bleach, but for a time I was what we would call an “anti-idpol” leftist. Essentially we were a grouping of leftists who held firmly to left-wing economic and even social…

Don’t be deterred, young communists at Glasgow

At COP26, while bourgeois politicians from around the world pretended to be concerned about climate change and take turns agreeing to milquetoast solutions we caught a glimpse at what the establishment is truly afraid of. Over the weekend Glasgow was the site of mass protests, with up to 100,000 people taking to the streets to…