Eyes Left What should the British left make of the US presidential election? Getting bogged down in the Trump v Harris divide is a distraction from the tasks of ending US hegemony and Britain’s subservience to Washington’s demands, argues ANDREW MURRAY
Features | Wednesday 02nd Oct 2024 Eyes Left From freebie frocks to foreign policy, conference only exposed the cracks in Starmer’s project
Features | Tuesday 24th Sep 2024 Muslim Vote campaign: ‘Our demands are in line with what ordinary people need’
Wednesday 18th Sep 2024 Eyes Left From Trickett’s rebellion to Reform’s rise, welcome to Labour’s post-victory blues As Keir Starmer alienates his party’s core voters and plummets in the polls, ANDREW MURRAY argues the shifting political landscape exposes Labour’s vulnerability to both right-wing populism — and a resurgent left
Wednesday 04th Sep 2024 Eyes Left Slumlords and surge pricing: Thatcher’s legacy alive and kicking in Starmer’s Labour When there are more landlords in Parliament on the Labour benches than the Tories', whatever happens to her portrait, Thatcher is having the last laugh, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Friday 05th Jul 2024 A failure of a victory for Starmer With less than 34 per cent of votes cast on a turnout of just 60 per cent, no party has got so much for so little. This wasn’t so much a ‘Labour landslide’ as Tory collapse, explains ANDREW MURRAY
Wednesday 03rd Jul 2024 Eyes Left: Election Special Can a left base be built after the election? The future depends on it An election campaign marked by racism and a willingness for the ‘mainstream’ to enable it gives a strong indication of what politics will look like later on down the line. Can a socialist and anti-imperialist network be forged to counter this dangerous prospect, asks ANDREW MURRAY
Wednesday 26th Jun 2024 Eyes Left No ceasefire, no vote In light of the mass movement in solidarity with Gaza, there is a simple metric to assess whether a Labour candidate deserves your support on July 4, explains ANDREW MURRAY
Monday 24th Jun 2024 Eyes Left The death of the Tories? Let us pray If the Conservative Party does indeed find itself reduced to a pitiful rump at the election, it is not just comeuppance for the last 14 years but a crumb of justice for two centuries of utter disgrace, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Tuesday 18th Jun 2024 Eyes Left Starmer’s hollow manifesto rings last gasps of centrism The Labour leader’s threadbare platform exposes the bankruptcy of liberal orthodoxy, not just here in Britain but as an era that is ending, with the far right waiting in the wings, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Friday 14th Jun 2024 Lettuce Liz flees Norfolk’s red menace While the infamous ex-PM pens apocalyptic tomes ‘on saving the West,’ locals hunger for basic services like dentists and public transport, not doomsday prophecies about China, Communist Party candidate LORRAINE DOUGLAS tells Andrew Murray
Tuesday 04th Jun 2024 ‘Britain’s conscience is not dead’ As the charismatic rebel candidate for Rochdale GEORGE GALLOWAY sends a remarkable 326 candidates into battle against Labour, Andrew Murray sits down with him to discuss Gaza, Starmer, and the Workers Party’s agenda
Friday 24th May 2024 Renters fall victim to Sunak's snap election decision RENTERS have fallen victim to Rishi Sunak’s snap election decision, as the Bill offering them some protection against eviction was dropped by the g