With the crowning of Hillary Clinton as the Democratic candidate, the 2016 US election cycle appears to have come full circle. But, what we have passed through is not a circle, but a contradictory spiral of development. While Sanders’ surrender to Clinton will inevitably lead to a temporary ebb, the course of US politics has been changed forever.

Across the world, centre-left governments and the traditional parties of the working class are in crisis. Reformism has hit up against the rocks of reality, unable to offer anything to workers and youth in this age of austerity. Daniel Morley examines the historic decline of social democracy and points the way forward for leaders, such as Corbyn, in the fight to defend the gains of the past.

Greece has been in and out of the news headlines, as other events push it into the background, such as the ongoing crisis in the Middle East, the Brexit vote, or the tumultuous class conflict gripping France. Nonetheless, Greece remains the weak point within the EU. The country is moving inexorably onwards towards a major crisis that will affect the whole of Europe.