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Oliver Eagleton

Associate Editor at New Left Review

Freelance Writer at Freelance

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  • Portrait of the Trader as a Young Rebel

    3 weeks ago | jacobin.com | Oliver Eagleton

    A weak Left, struggling to navigate a hostile media environment, must sometimes rely on proxies to transmit its ideas. It often falls to fellow travelers with more establishment credibility to advance dissenting positions in mainstream outlets.

  • Keir Starmer’s hollow state

    1 month ago | newstatesman.com | Oliver Eagleton

    What ever happened to the “strong state”? When the Labour Party won power last July, commentators announced the arrival of an “activist” and “interventionist” government, which would ditch the dogmas of laissez faire and confront the issues of the day: chronic stagnation, climate collapse, ragged public services.

  • À Londres, le retour de l’extrême centre

    Sep 1, 2024 | monde-diplomatique.fr | Oliver Eagleton

    Défaites, les forces de déstabilisation; confirmée, la suprématie du centrisme : les élections générales britanniques du 4 juillet ont exaucé les vœux de l’establishment. Après un long règne émaillé de scandales de corruption et de convulsions économiques (2010-2024), le Parti conservateur a subi le pire revers de son histoire avec 121 sièges sur les 650 à pourvoir à la Chambre des communes. Reform UK, la formation de droite radicale conduite par M.

  • The not quite moving right show

    Jul 6, 2024 | newstatesman.com | Oliver Eagleton

    There is good reason to believe that Britain is moving right. The general election saw a redoubtable Reform UK win 14 per cent of the vote and five parliamentary seats on a hardline anti-immigrant platform; it paved the way for the Conservatives to be cannibalised by Faragism; and it exposed much of the legacy media as purveyors of sensationalist reaction, fuelling hysteria about “small boats” while keeping shtum about child poverty. The new governing party has helped to legitimise this trend.

  • The not quite moving right show

    Jul 6, 2024 | newstatesman.com | Oliver Eagleton

    There is good reason to believe that Britain is moving right. The general election saw a redoubtable Reform UK win 14 per cent of the vote and five parliamentary seats on a hard-line anti-immigrant platform; it paved the way for the Conservatives to be cannibalised by Faragism; and it exposed much of the legacy media as purveyors of sensationalist reaction, fuelling hysteria about “small boats” while keeping shtum about child poverty. The new governing party has helped to legitimise this trend.

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20 Mar 25

Stunning piece by @jasonkstearns on Congo's internal crisis and its role in the world economy: https://t.co/i89grivSJO https://t.co/17Fvps9Oby

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18 Dec 24

RT @MattBroomfield1: As the former Yugoslavia collapsed, US policy entrenched ethnic enmities, creating a convenient foil for sectarian str…

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20 Nov 24

RT @yanisvaroufakis: NEW LEFT REVIEW: My discussion with Oliver Eagleton on my TECHNOFEUDALISM as a piece of Marxist political economy - in…