Democracy & State
Overcoming the enemies within
17 May 2012
The left must unite in order to change the relationship of forces both within and outside the Labour Party, argues Mike Macnair
One, two, three revolutions
21 Apr 2016
Jack Conrad argues that democracy in the United States is corrupted and far from complete. The working class must finish what 1775 began
Much ado about nothing
21 Apr 2016
History does repeat itself, says Eddie Ford. Just as with the 1975 referendum, once again we have a government trying to pull a fast one
Carry on regardless
14 Apr 2016
SPEW just will not admit it was wrong in its characterisation of Labour, writes Peter Manson
Smear tactics and our response
14 Apr 2016
To combat the lies, we need our own independent working class media, argues Mike Macnair
Close down offshore
14 Apr 2016
Transnational companies and the super-rich routinely get away with not paying taxes. But, writes Michael Roberts, something can be done about it
The in-out kabuki dance
14 Apr 2016
James Marshall of Labour Party Marxists says a passive boycott is not as good as an active boycott. But it is far better than participating in Stronger in Europe
Drawing lines of distinction
14 Apr 2016
We need to look beyond 2020, urges Paul Demarty
Renzi in the firing line
14 Apr 2016
Scandals reminiscent of the Berlusconi era have put the prime minister under sustained pressure, writes Toby Abse
Who are the ‘moderate’ opposition?
07 Apr 2016
Amongst the chaos, new alliances are taking shape, reports Yassamine Mather
Harmful change is intolerable
07 Apr 2016
Joint action is the way forward, says Richard Galen - and so is affiliation to the TUC
Commodification and conditioning
07 Apr 2016
Adam Unwin and John Yandell 'Rethinking education: whose knowledge is it anyway?', New Internationalist, 2016, pp143, £7.99
Don’t appease: fight!
07 Apr 2016
The Labour Party’s Compliance Unit is employing TheDaily Telegraph to pursue its allegations of ‘anti-Semitism’, writes Tony Greenstein
Both sides are reactionary
07 Apr 2016
Demands are growing for Jeremy Corbyn to swing the balance to save Dave Cameron’s bacon. Eddie Ford calls for an active boycott
Kautsky on referenda
31 Mar 2016
As a contribution to the debate regarding the tactics to adopt in relation to the European Union referendum, Ben Lewis has translated this piece by Karl Kautsky on ‘direct legislation’. Kautsky (1854-1938), known as the “pope of Marxism”, was a thinker who, as recent scholarship has underlined, had a profound influence on the theory and practice of Lenin’s Bolsheviks
Direct legislation by the people and the class struggle
31 Mar 2016
By Karl Kautsky