Politics / Political Theory

Frances Guy makes a plea for traditional diplomacy in the age of the Trumpian tweet.

Richard Swift considers an alternative to economies based on over-consumption and growth-addiction.

Richard Swift examines the history of Utopian thinking that fundamentally re-imagines democracy and equality.

The environmental crisis is proving not only a challenge to capitalism but forcing resistance movements to rethink their politics.

The other great historic alternative to capitalism has been anarchism. Often dismissed as a dirty word, its influence ebbs and flows but its libertarian principles remain profoundly influential.

From Karl Marx to Ed Miliband and François Hollande is a very long journey indeed. But all at least pay lip-service to socialism. So how has it worked as an alternative?

Richard Swift begins his journey through political alternatives to capitalism by looking at the nature of the beast they seek to oppose.

Uri Gordon offers insight into what anarchism – a word bandied about carelessly by the press – really means.

A red-green revival is possible, argues Jeremy Seabrook.