Cockroaches get under Modi’s skin
David Lockwood looks at the remarkable transformation of a tweet into a mass movement that removed India’s education minister.
Author: David Lockwood
War is peace: Pat Conroy on ‘patriotism’
Pat Conroy delivered a pompous but largely empty speech on ‘progressive patriotism’. David Lockwood looks for some meaning in it.
Monoculture: Hanson’s next ‘big idea’
David Lockwood argues the left must not form the extreme left of the liberal establishment to see off the ‘radical right’.
The loneliness of the middle power
David Lockwood searches the foreign policy section of the proposed ALP National Platform – but finds almost nothing there.
One Nation: beyond whose pale?
David Lockwood warns against simplistic responses to the rise of rightwing populism.
ALP Draft National Platform: on immigration
David Lockwood says the working class must fight national chauvinism and racist scapegoating.
Liberal dog-whistling panders to One Nation
David Lockwood argues that the latest anti-immigrant spray from Angus Taylor is not reducible to racism, but is about national chauvinism and state-loyalty.
Farrer reveals One Nation’s elite pedigree
David Lockwood says despite its attempt to appeal to plebian culture, One Nation is a pro-elite, pro-establishment party.
Why Marxists work in the Labor Party
With Albanese backing Trump’s war on Iran, you might be tempted to rip up your party card. David Lockwood explains why Marxists fight in the ALP.
US strategy: a fighting retreat?
Behind Trump’s bluff and bluster, could there be plans to limit America’s military reach? David Lockwood explores the Pentagon’s new strategy.
Against the Mullahs, Shah and imperialism
Protests in Iran not only reveal imperialist aggression and a vicious regime, but the programmatic weaknesses of the left, writes David Lockwood.
Beyond spontaneity: why workers need a plan
A Marxist organisation needs a political program which contains both minimum demands and a maximum vision of the future.