To mount a socialist response, workers and young people must look past the media psychodrama that reduces politics to soap opera and personality clashes, and focus instead on the underlying realities driving the crisis.

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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/05/15/agle-m15.html

The crisis of the Starmer government, the Labour Party and British capitalism

The crisis of the Starmer government is the product of two long-term and twinned processes: the international decline of British imperialism amid the convulsions of global capitalism, and the total collapse of the Labour Party’s working-class constituency.

World Socialist Web Site
A Keir Starmer government might be more radical than you think

The party’s policies on the economy, devolution, workers’ rights and the environment pack a punch, writes professor of political economy Michael Jacobs

The Guardian