Opinion & Analysis

English socialism has long been divided by a civil war between the ‘realism’ of left-reformism and the abstract ‘revolutionary’ politics of the communist sects, says Steve Freeman.

The Ecosocialism Conference on 30 May 2026 adopted a necessarily radical approach to the burning issue of the climate crisis. Here, Paris Wilder explains the background to the conference and its socialist outlook.

Climate change demands urgent action – but not all proposed solutions hold up to scrutiny. From consumer guilt-tripping to supply-side kneejerk reactions, our response is riddled with well-meaning but counterproductive thinking, says Fred Bayer.

Two presidential visits to the Chinese capital for two summits with the Chinese president. Brian Green reports on two very different outcomes for Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

Despite the US president hailing “fantastic deals”, beyond the pomp and ceremony, Trump’s much-hyped summit with China’s president Xi Jinping didn’t achieve that much. Brian Green assesses the state of the world’s most important bilateral relationship.

Following his article in The Left Lane on inequality last week, Brian Green now turns his attention to the AI bubble and what its collapse could mean for an over-indebted economy addicted to AI spending.

Inequality is on the rise and the top 10% of ‘earners’ are amassing more and more wealth at the expense of the rest of us, says Brian Green in this economic update.

On May Day, artist, poet and writer Gordon Liddle offers some apposite reflections on Iran and other oncoming supply catastrophes.

There is an ongoing debate about whose strategic interests the US/Israel war serves. Is the Israeli tail wagging the US dog or do the US war aims fit into a broader global power struggle? Brian Green says that US interests will prevail in the region and quite possibly at Israel’s expense.

There is an ongoing debate about whose strategic interests the US/Israel war serves. Is the Israeli tail wagging the US dog or do the US war aims fit into a broader global power struggle? Here, John Bernard argues that Israel is calling most of the shots.