Labour's manifesto and history should guide us going forward.
Revisiting the Meidner Plan
In the 1970s, the Swedish labor movement developed a plan to gradually socialize ownership. What can we learn from it today?
The Communist Manifesto
Without question one of the most significant books in modern history, The Communist Manifesto is a brief, populist pamphlet that distils the core ideas of Communism into accessible prose. Published just months before violent uprisings threatened to destabilise much of the European establishment, it outlines a view of history as a constant battle between the classes that will inevitably result in revolution. An ang...
How Laissez-Faire Made Sweden Rich
Sweden often gets held up as an example of how socialism can work better than markets. But, as Norberg shows, Sweden’s history in fact points to the opposite conclusion.
‘What is it actually about?’ Asymmetric mobilisation and the defeat of wage-earner fund policies in Sweden
‘Wage-earner funds’, an ultimately-defeated idea for union-controlled funds to develop stakes in Swedish companies, dominated Swedish politics in the late 1970s and early 1980s. They are regularly cited as a prominent attempt to introduce economic democracy. However, factors behind the funds’ defeat are often under-analysed, with the sequencing of events particularly neglected. This article corrects for this. It seeks to explain the defeat of wage-earner funds by tracing decision-making processes in the Social Democratic Party. It argues that the funds were defeated due to asymmetries in mobilisation, which were connected to asymmetries in everyday experiences. While capital owners mobilised strongly against wage-earner funds as an existential threat, most Social Democratic leaders, voters and union members saw the issue as detached from their everyday concerns. This points to the importance that asymmetries in experience and mobilisation can have in policy contests, which provides an advantage to capital in contests over investment control.
The Socialist Party of Great Britain
The Socialist Party wants to get rid of the profit system and establish real socialism.
A Manifesto for a Future Philosophy (guest post) - Daily Nous
“This project of re-envisaging, looking at past ideas, and developing new ones to deal with our difficult situation will take the work of many people…” […]
Policies – Victorian Socialists
Our full policy platform for the 2026 state election. These policies were developed in consultation with Victorian Socialists members across the state.
Correlates of the Mamdani Vote
No class gradient is a big win for democratic socialism
Some Thoughts on Techno-Fascism From Socialism 2025
"This is the endgame of our isolation."
Call for Papers: Karl Marx and Max Weber on the Topic of Machines Dominating Labour
Part of the Joint Conference 2026 (JC2026) The 2nd RC20 Regional Conference on Comparative SociologyThe 1st RC56 Regional Conference on Historical SociologyThe 5th RC33 Regional Conference on Social Science Methodology: Asia📍 Khon Kaen University, Thailand / Japan Women’s University, Tokyo, Japan🗓 24–28 August 2026(Online Conference) Session Organizer Dr. Noel Packard, PhDIndependent Researcher and 2023 PhD...
None of the above: Poll reveals Victorian flight from major parties
If Jacinta Allan ends up leading Labor to a historic, fourth consecutive term in government, she’ll have Pauline Hanson to thank.
Building Economic Democracy in Europe - Foundation for European Progressive Studies
Concepts, Cases and Achieving Progressive Change
Cannibal Capitalism
Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2023 Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life-guzzling wealth from nature and racialized populations, sucking up our ability to care for each other, and gutting the practice of politics. In this tightly argued and urgent volume, leading Marxist feminist theorist Nancy Fraser charts the voracious appetite of capital, tracking it from crisis point to crisis point, from ecological devastation to the collapse of democracy, from racial violence to the devaluing of care work. These crisis points all come to a head in Covid-19, which Fraser argues can help us envision the resistance we need to end the feeding frenzy. What we need, she argues, is a wide-ranging socialist movement that can recognize the rapaciousness of capital - and starve it to death.
Robin Berjon
"For A Left Populism" by Chantal Mouffe Excellent first read of the year. A framework and a strategy for the change we need. If you're progressive and unsure of what to do, what politics should look like, this is a good short read to think it through