What’s left for the Left?What exactly is the progressive movement fighting for these days? It’s time for a new, clear vision for the Left and what it wants to rally for. What substantive changes are needed? asks Robert Merkel.
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Rudd’s a conservative?! Colour us shocked
Why do the left continue to support Kevin Rudd when he makes socially conservative and anti-feminist statements? asks Viv Smyth. Because they knew going in he was a white, middle-class Catholic, and he’s still better than Abbott or Howard.
It’s tough being a Democrat on Fox
Politico meets the token Democrats who appear on Fox News. “It sucks,” says one. So why do they do it? People watch Fox — and for these true believers, some of their souls can still be won.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The Left
Crikey readers debate Guy Rundle’s views on the Left. Plus, discrimination debate and the full time mess that is dealing with Centrelink.
Even the GFC can’t reverse the Left’s decline
When the GFC hit, the neo-liberal consensus seemed shaky. There was a return to Keynesian approaches. But German election results suggest any hoped-for social democratic revival will be short-lived, says Trevor Cook
Guy Rundle: Rundle: A vision of the future, written by the Left. Part III
Would a transformed post-capitalist economic and social system abolish money, markets and property? Of course not. Will that future be anything like the communism envisaged in the early Marx, or Lenin’s utopian State and Revolution? Emphatically not. But what hopes are there?
Guy Rundle: The past and future of the Left
The ‘Left’ that has emerged as victorious is one whose ambitions are defined and delimited by the political culture of capitalism. So what’s actually left? asks Guy Rundle.
Guy Rundle: The Australian can’t tell its left from right
The thinkers that The Australian chose for its left series weren’t leftists, they were labourists – submitting their intellectual abilities to the pre-ordained goal of selling a stunningly unambitious political programme.
What was Left after the global economic collapse?
The GFC should have been the greatest moment ever for the Left. But why hasn’t a viable political and economic alternative emerged? Did the Left miss their big chance?
The European Left is a dead duck
Last weekend’s European elections signify not only the rise of the right but also the decimation of the left.
