Chartist Magazine

Chartist AGM and Open meeting — Chartist

Andy Burnham’s First 100 Days — Chartist

Kerry Postlewhite on moving from words to action I’ve followed Andy Burnham’s career with a fair deal of affection ever since I first met him at Labour HQ in the 1997 general election campaign. As...

Editorial 343 — Chartist

Is Burnham ending neoliberalism? Andy Burnham says he wants to end 40 years of neoliberalism. A good start would be getting the water industry back into public ownership (see Barry Gardiner MP). This...

Stunning victory for left in Brazil — Chartist

Richard Lapper sees Lula da Silva’s remarkable win in the Brazilian elections as a reminder that the right doesn’t have it all their own way. Mike Davis spoke to him. What swung the runoff for Lula...

Calculated Killing — Chartist

Patrick Mulcahy on NAZA & Inside Gaza The late evening audience at Finsbury Park Picturehouse filed out quietly, overwhelmed by the subject matter of the film they had just watched. This was my...

Trying to Prevent Conflict — Chartist

Gill Bennett on the Foreign Office Peace Makers: Shaping the Modern World: The Men and Women of the Foreign Office in WWII by Peter Ricketts published by Aurum Press Books that focus on the “human...

Our International History 22 — Chartist

Giusseppe Mazzini – Italian republican Mazzini was an Italian journalist and politician. Born in Genoa in 1805, he organized the “Young Italy” secret society, whose aim was “One Independent Free...

Standing up to the trans backlash — Chartist

Jenny Black explains the new challenges In 2017 Theresa May made a pledge to the LGBT+ community to reform the Gender Recognition Act, paving the way to self ID for trans people. May’s pledge was...

Devolutionary times? — Chartist

Paul Salveson on the democratic deficit in devolution plans The last Chartist was produced just before we knew the outcome of the Makerfield By-Election.  To say that a lot has happened since then is...

On sociability and violence — Chartist

Mike Davis on an insightful libertarian socialist Andrea Caffi The New York Essays ed Mike Tyldesley published by Little Big Eye This collection of essays taken largely from Dwight McDonald’s...

Lessons of Hungary’s 1956 uprising — Chartist

Andrew Ryder, András Schweitzer and Gabor Halmai pay homage to 1956 and István Bibó while highlighting  their relevance to Ukraine On October 23rd, Hungarians commemorate the 1956 Revolution during...

Reading for pleasure — Chartist

Helen Hayes on bringing back libraries As a child, I loved a visit to our local library. I loved the sense of anticipation and possibility, and I loved the books. The library helped to establish...

Democracy is wherever we gather! — Chartist

Milica Pekic on the institutional crisis and the student mobilisation in Serbia On the 1st of November 2024, the canopy of the newly renovated public train station in Novi Sad, Serbia’s second-larg...

A concise and powerful expression — Chartist

Zain Sardar on Einstein’s Socialism Why Socialism?: The Enduring Relevance of His Classic Essay ed. John Bellamy Foster published by Monthly Review Press Critically acclaimed biographies of Albert...

Trump cornered but lethal — Chartist

Trump’s MAGA majority under big threat in mid-term elections says Paul Garver The US polity is entering a heightened period of danger to its basic institutions, stretching from the mid-term election...

California dreaming in the Gem state — Chartist

Robert Scott on a US state moving out of the shadows America’s political maps tell comforting lies. California deep blue, Idaho bright red, one supposedly the future and the other a stubborn past. It...

Greenwatch — Chartist

Make Farage mad with solar farms! Solar farms and wind farms should be given automatic planning approval in areas that vote in Reform Party MPs. That’s part of my response to the Reform Party’s plans...

Act of solidarity — Chartist

Glyn Ford on the other Spanish republicans Volunteers for the Revolution: International Militia of the POUM in the Spanish Civil War by Andy Durgan published by Brill Haymarket The POUM: Republic,...

Burnham at Party Conference:  Has the  left-progressive message advanced? — Chartist

Hope back on the agenda with sketchy plans to deal with the cost-of-living crisis. Is it enough?  Don Flynn argues the long years of right-wing domination of Labour politics have created divisions...

‘We are at risk of a lost generation’ — Chartist

How serious will the new government be about the Young People and Work Interim Report asks Rebekah Morton? One in eight young people, those aged 16-24, are not in education, employment or training....