Capitalist ideologues often speak of the “national interest” as though society is a single, harmonious community bound together by shared goals. Whether it is in discussions of foreign policy, economic “recovery,” or internal security, ruling elites insist that workers and…
Every year, the Economic Intelligence Unit releases the Democracy Index. This index claims to rank countries by how democratic they are. But how credible is it? The first thing we notice when we look into it, is that the Democracy…
Britain is said to be the home of parliamentary democracy, which countries around the world have modelled their own political systems on. But what the media and education systems rarely ask is whether this democracy actually lives up to what…
