Party & Programme > Class and consciousness
Wide open for the class
19 Apr 2012
What is class-consciousness? Paul B Smith discusses the possibility of a political revival
A richly deserved defeat
10 Nov 2016
Trump’s victory is an indictment of shallow American liberalism, and it is time for the left to detach itself from it, argues Paul Demarty
Sow the wind, reap the windbag
03 Nov 2016
Donald Trump is a symptom of the sickness of American politics - but the likes of Hillary Clinton are the cause, argues Paul Demarty
The enigma of Kautsky
03 Nov 2016
Karl Kautsky saw the wage-earning working class as the social power that would bring about the end of capitalism, writes Marc Mulholland. But he refused to romanticise the proletariat
Attempt to outlaw justified anger
20 Oct 2016
The demand that Corbyn should apologise for Labour ‘anti-Semitism’ is a demand to bow before US policymakers, writes Mike Macnair
Hard Brexit or no Brexit?
20 Oct 2016
Unless there is a traumatic economic crisis, argues Eddie Ford, Theresa May looks set for a landslide victory in an early general election
Rattling the Labour right
13 Oct 2016
Lawrence Parker spoke at Communist University 2016 on the National Left Wing Movement - an organisation that was active in the Labour Party during the 1920s. Chris Hill of Labour Party Marxists spoke to him
Momentum or inertia?
13 Oct 2016
As long as it is treated as the private property of its most timid elements, Momentum is doomed, argues Jim Grant of Labour Party Marxists
Opening shots of next election
06 Oct 2016
Paul Demarty looks at Theresa May’s conversion to red Toryism
Caving in to the witch-hunt
06 Oct 2016
The targeting of Jackie Walker is a disgrace, writes Tony Greenstein
Explaining the holocaust industry
29 Sep 2016
Norman Finkelstein recalls how the official narrative on the Jews and Israel has changed over his lifetime. This is an edited version of a speech given to Communist University 2016
Lock up the thugs
29 Sep 2016
Once more, the SACP finds itself on the wrong side of the class divide, writes Peter Manson
Bernstein’s assault on ‘orthodoxy’
22 Sep 2016
Marc Mulholland examines the revisionist attack on class politics and the three most important responses. Clearly this dispute was about more than ‘reform’ versus ‘revolution’
Media: old and new
15 Sep 2016
What is the impact of technology on the mass media? How can the left overcome its marginality in the public discourse? Should we trust Google searches? Paul Demarty addressed the past, present and future of the media at this year’s Communist University
Lexiteers all at sea
15 Sep 2016
Both the Morning Star’s CPB and SPEW advocate immigration controls and socialism in one country, notes Mike Macnair
End the bans and proscriptions
01 Sep 2016
Once the Labour Party was characterised by tolerance and inclusion, all working class organisations were welcome - no longer. James Marshall of Labour Party Marxists explores the history