Eyes Left What was behind Starmer’s ‘tough-cop’ clampdown on Saturday’s Palestine protest? ANDREW MURRAY considers whether the mass arrest of peaceful protesters was an attempt by the PM to appease his right-wing critics following his crackdown on last August’s race rioters — and a dark omen of the tyrannies to come
Wednesday 27th Nov 2024 Eyes Left The silent drift into war With Ukraine firing British-made missiles into Russian territory, the risk of being dragged into world war III is greater than ever – so why is there scarcely a murmur from our political class, asks ANDREW MURRAY
Wednesday 13th Nov 2024 Eyes Left It’s barbarism then — but what kind? In the US, Establishment liberal imperialism has fallen to what can be accurately described, at the very least, as a kind of right-wing nationalism — but what is the likelihood of full-blown fascism, ask ANDREW MURRAY
Wednesday 30th Oct 2024 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
Tuesday 15th Oct 2024 Eyes Left Things going badly for Starmer is our opportunity The sidelining of social democrats and embrace of deregulation comes at the same time as a remarkable collapse in public support for the current Labour regime, writes ANDREW MURRAY, so why don’t we go on the offensive?
Wednesday 02nd Oct 2024 Eyes Left From freebie frocks to foreign policy, conference only exposed the cracks in Starmer’s project The lack of serious debate on electoral weakness and key policy issues only made the disconnect between the leadership’s austerity agenda and the concerns of the party’s rank-and-file more blatant, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Tuesday 24th Sep 2024 Muslim Vote campaign: ‘Our demands are in line with what ordinary people need’ After his organisation helped elect four independent MPs, ABUBAKR NANABAWA talks to Andrew Murray about how Muslim Vote, although sparked by the war on Gaza, has a working-class agenda that reaches far beyond Muslims
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
