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 21st Sep 2022 EYES LEFT Neoliberals in the driving seat New PM Liz Truss is even more intent on waging class war than her predecessors – but will her aggressive approach come unstuck as a range of pressures mount, asks ANDREW MURRAY
Tuesday 06th Sep 2022 Liz Truss’s tenure beckons in a period of darkness The new administration could prove to be the most reactionary since Thatcher, especially if it decides the election is already lost and tries and do as much damage in the name of the market as possible on the way out, warns ANDREW MURRAY
Wednesday 31st Aug 2022 Mikhail Gorbachev (March 2 1931 – August 30 2022) Last leader of the Soviet Union prior to its collapse in 1991
Wednesday 24th Aug 2022 Eyes Left If the working class is back, a united left fightback is all the more essential Enough is Enough has given the left a tremendous shot in the arm, says ANDREW MURRAY – but unity across campaigns and unions is the only way to deliver success
Friday 22nd Jul 2022 Eyes Left The Forde report: what has changed? Keir Starmer has claimed that the debilitating factionalism revealed in the 138-page inquiry is over — if so, that is only because the worst offenders are now in full control of Labour. We must break the cycle, writes ANDREW MURRAY
BOOKS Monday 18th Jul 2022 BOOKS Taking class out of history’s narrative An unfocused approach to Britain’s last 200 years offers no innovative understanding, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Tuesday 12th Jul 2022 Eyes Left with Andrew Murray The race to succeed Johnson reveals strategic divisions in Britain's ruling class THE government of the venal, habitually mendacious and priapic Boris Johnson will surely come to be seen as a landmark in the degradation of the Br
Wednesday 29th Jun 2022 EYES LEFT A class reassertion The RMT is really striking a chord with the public – the Labour Party, not so much, says ANDREW MURRAY
Tuesday 14th Jun 2022 Opinion ‘High inflation and falling incomes are a particularly noxious combination’ The law matters but it does not matter as much as organised power on the shopfloor, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Tuesday 31st May 2022 Eyes Left The Britain Project: New Labour, old failure Tony Blair is assembling a crack squad of out-of-work MPs from across the centrist spectrum – giving life to the lie that what people want is less political innovation, not more. Starmer need not worry just yet, writes ANDREW MURRAY
