Letters

Between populism and party

Harry Holmes looks at a recent article by Armoise and Levi and the response in Geese Magazine and tries to tease out an investigation on populism and the party-form.

Dispatches

Class Consciousness at The World Transformed

Reporting back from the three assemblies at The World Transformed that attempted to diagnose and overcome the impasse of the British left, Lewis Hodder details the varying levels of class consciousness of the crowd that coalesced around criticism of the leadership of the new left party.


Somaliland Nationalism at a Crossroads

Yasmin Dualeh offers a meditation on the likelihood of Somaliland nationalism’s survival in the wake of Israel’s recognition of Somaliland, as well as its implications for imperial geopolitics and the future of Somali sovereignty in the Horn of Africa.

Solidarity with Linksjugend [‘solid]!

At the beginning of November, the 13000-member-strong youth wing of the German Left Party Die Linke, the Linksjugend [’solid], passed a motion titled “We must never again remain silent in the face of a genocide”. Linksjugend [‘solid] is the first major political organisation in Germany…

Death and Resistance: A Dispatch from HMP Low Newton

Madeleine Norman, of the Filton 18, reflects on their time in prison after a suicide in HMP Low Newton. In prison, as in occupied Palestine, the spectre of death is constant, and Norman emphasises that as much as death has the ability to galvanise…

The Problem with the Green Party

As Sir Keir’s government sinks to the depths of unpopularity, and the march of the populist Right—in the shape of Reform—seems to proceed unabated by the influence of a Left alternative, commentators have begun to wonder why it is that the Greens have seen such…