What is the Left and which parts of it are dead?

This is an excellent piece - an excellent piece.

That said, the important point that it - and other articles that predict the death of the left - circumnavigates is the thriving activity that we're seeing at the grassroots of the movement.

The political left (in the form of Labour and far-left organisations) may be in terminal decline, but I'm seeing excellent grassroots turnouts at trade union meetings, and meetings called in support of left activists who are being persecuted at work and by rightwing union administrations, etc... for all this talk of the death of the left, it's hard not feel that socialist activism is on the up and that activists are getting better organised.

More on this soon.