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Looking for the Left

Social democrats are in trouble all over Europe. The enemy is still the far-right, but the reasons why voters have turned to populists remain disputed.(...)
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Bullshit Jobs or Robots

Welcome to 2023. It’s not 1984, but we’re a lot closer to dystopia. Automation is reconfiguring the world of work, and all too often, the left finds itself in the position of defending things nobody wants.(...)
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Israel-Palestine in Europe

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict overproduces journalism. With good reason. It's been one of the most politically significant crises since WWII.(...)

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2022 in Review

On the new Left To Burn podcast, Josh White and John Foster discuss the threat posed by Germany's Reichsbürger coup plotters.(...)
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Republic Enlargement Program

With British politics in crisis, turmoil in Northern Ireland is perhaps the last thing that anyone in public life would have wanted. Yet that’s exactly what they’ve got.(...)