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An interesting and well put together analysis for @ConterScot from @reality_manager - on the return of the eurosceptic left in France. “La France Insoumise has had to dust off its old sovereignist lines to oppose Von Der Leyen’s rearmament plan…” conter.scot/2025/7/17/fran…
France: A Return Of The Euro-critical Left? 🗣️ “La France Insoumise has had to dust off its old sovereignist lines to oppose Von Der Leyen’s rearmament plan, and pro-Palestine movements are at loggerheads with the EU.” Analysis from @reality_manager conter.scot/2025/7/17/fran…
Conter co-editor @Jonathon_Shafi and columnist @SophieJayJoe have a piece in this month’s @Scottishleftrev on Scotland’s intellectual and poltical retreat in the context of a changing world order - and how this might be addressed. Available here: scottishleftreview.scot/low-ebb/
A new left party could be an exciting development in Scotland, where fresh impetus is clearly needed. Here's some early thoughts for how to make the project a success north of the border👇 x.com/ConterScot/sta…
The New Left Party: Scottish Dimensions @Ben_Wray1989 offers some critical insights into how developments around a party led by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana might translate in Scotland. conter.scot/2025/7/16/the-…
Stephen Kapos’ story cannot be told widely enough. He represents the very essence of the socialist cause: hope against despair, universalism against bigotry, intellect against ignorance. He’s everything a cynical society tells you we cannot be.
Stephen Kapos has endured many of the worst tyrants of the 20th century. Now, at 88, he has been questioned by police for peacefully protesting the UK Government’s Gaza policy. @David_Jamieson7 speaks with him in a remarkable interview. 🎧 Listen here: patreon.com/posts/in-conve…
The New Left Party: Scottish Dimensions @Ben_Wray1989 offers some critical insights into how developments around a party led by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana might translate in Scotland. conter.scot/2025/7/16/the-…
Stephen Kapos has endured many of the worst tyrants of the 20th century. Now, at 88, he has been questioned by police for peacefully protesting the UK Government’s Gaza policy. @David_Jamieson7 speaks with him in a remarkable interview. 🎧 Listen here: patreon.com/posts/in-conve…
“This means a break not just with the Labour Party, but also with Labourism. Overcoming the idea that working class organisation and extra-parliamentary movements are subordinate to electoralism.” From this week’s @ScotNational column. thenational.scot/news/25295892.…
A helpful note of caution on the Mamdani moment. On the "great leader" tendency on the left, to some extent this is a consequence of the centrality of elections in our system: millions of votes are distilled into one candidate, it's an aristoctratic, not democratic, mechanism.
Lessons From The Mamdani Victory Michael Doyle asks what lessons the left can draw from the Mamdani campaign - and what to avoid . conter.scot/2025/7/2/lesso…
Lessons From The Mamdani Victory Michael Doyle asks what lessons the left can draw from the Mamdani campaign - and what to avoid . conter.scot/2025/7/2/lesso…
Confronting the attacks our civil liberties Palestine Action is to be proscribed as a terror group, while organisers of mass demonstrations are being arrested and charged. To discuss this, @Jonathon_Shafi spoke to @LindseyAGerman 🎧 Listen here: patreon.com/posts/confront…
The British elite’s Gaza meltdown @David_Jamieson7 and @Jonathon_Shafi assess establishment responses to Glastonbury. The core of the issue: they can’t defend Israel’s actions with intellectual, political or popular cohesion. patreon.com/posts/british-…
Trump and the Middle East: Making sense of the chaos In this edition, @David_Jamieson7 and @Jonathon_Shafi discuss the latest developments in the Middle East in the context of imperial decline and a world order in flux. 🎧 Listen here: patreon.com/posts/trump-an…
Trump lashing out at Israel can be interpreted as part of a messy but largely choreographed process of strategic decoupling and imperial reorientation in the Middle East. Wrote about this for @tribunemagazine back in May. Full article: tribunemag.co.uk/2025/05/israel…
Iran in the crosshairs: A preamble Our co-editor @David_Jamieson7 provides an outline to some of the key issues we will be examining in relation to the war on Iran and the future of the Middle East in the coming days and weeks. 🎧 Listen here: patreon.com/posts/iran-in-…
Two years ago, I wrote about how, at the behest of BP, the British state toppled Iranian democracy to install the Shah and his murderous regime in 1953. Worth sharing: conter.scot/2023/8/18/oper…
BBC in full imperial mode with @bbclaurak interviewing the son of the last Shah, whose autocratic rule was strengthened by 1953 MI6-CIA coup against the elected Mosaddegh to reverse his nationalisation of BP in Iran. Who else interviewed? The former BP CEO #ManufacturingConsent
Always a joy to catch up with @Jonathon_Shafi - today we talked about the prospects for reform (and Reform) at the BBC, about the wider crisis in UK political economy and how the left can respond over the next few years.
The BBC in the Digital Age: Democracy, Power and the Left @Jonathon_Shafi interviews @danhind about a report he co-authored on democratising the BBC. It argues for the transformation of the institution into a "public service mutual.” 🎧 Listen here: patreon.com/posts/bbc-in-d…
The BBC in the Digital Age: Democracy, Power and the Left @Jonathon_Shafi interviews @danhind about a report he co-authored on democratising the BBC. It argues for the transformation of the institution into a "public service mutual.” 🎧 Listen here: patreon.com/posts/bbc-in-d…
