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 better way of being
06 Nov 2014
Mass protest looks likely to sink the Irish government's introduction of water charges. Anne McShane spoke to a leading member of the 'Cobh Says No' campaign
Recalling the nine days
18 Sep 2014
A commitment to official union structures, and an inability to grasp the potential of organisations created by workers in struggle meant the miner's strike was a test most of the left failed, says Mark Fischer
No place for anti-Semitism
18 Sep 2014
A Communist Platform member has been shown the door. Peter Manson reports
Parvus: for German victory
11 Sep 2014
New translations shed light on the thinking of socialists who ended up supporting 'their' side in WWI. Mike Macnair introduces a second Parvus article
Can commerce be ethical?
07 Aug 2014
Ndongo Samba Sylla The fair trade scandal: marketing poverty to benefit the rich Pluto Press, pp208, £16
While the NUM waged war ...
07 Aug 2014
Mark Fischer introduces another Leninist reprint, this time on the fight against liquidationist tendencies in the CPGB
One hundred years of counterrevolution
07 Aug 2014
1914-18 and subsequent wars have played an important role in subduing the working class, writes Mark Kosman
The Bolsheviks’ success and the ‘revolutionary’ fear of electoralism
24 Jul 2014
Mike Macnair reviews two books by August Nimtz in the context of the left's fear of politics
Socialism and bear-baiting
17 Jul 2014
Socialist Worker’s gloating over Horatio Chapple’s death is crass and cruel, writes Paul Demarty. But it is also a product of political weaknesses
Bourgeois or capitalist?
17 Jul 2014
Marc Mulholland Bourgeois liberty and the politics of fear Oxford University Press, pp400, £37 (£9.25 direct)
Enough bluster and bullshit
17 Jul 2014
Last week saw a major strike of public-sector workers. Daniel Harvey looks at the aftermath
Bolshevism was not a safe space for opportunism
03 Jul 2014
Political differences need to be expressed in honest, frank and where necessary colourful language. Mark Fischer argues that the past has many important lessons for Left Unity
World War I: SPD left's dirty secret
26 Jun 2014
Ben Lewis discusses a largely forgotten and ignominious chapter in the history of the German workers’ movement
The question of Polish coal
26 Jun 2014
Mark Fischer introduces another 'The Leninist' reprint from the time of the Miner's great strike
A leading rank-and-filer
12 Jun 2014
Paul Frölich Im radikalen Lager: Politische Autobiographie 1890-1921 (1938) €29.80, pp416, edited by Reiner Tosstorf, Berlin 2013