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
SUPPLEMENT: The general strike and classical Marxism
04 Aug 2022
Take it back from them
07 Jul 2022
As everyone knows, Pride began as a radical protest march, but has long been taken over by big business. Eddie Ford warns against the logic of sectionalism
Parliamentary and everyday sexism
05 May 2022
The current furore has produced a morally outraged cross-party consensus, but the last thing we need is yet more investigations, judge-led enquiries, quangos and powers to suspend or expel MPs, says James Harvey
Working women find a voice
10 Mar 2022
Anne McShane looks at 'Rabotnitsa', first published by the Bolsheviks on February 23 1914 to mark International Women’s Day
No change of line
20 Jan 2022
Mike Macnair responds to Daniel Lazare on BDS, the Israel Jewish working class and the necessity of opposing the witch-hunt
Heroes and villains
20 Jan 2022
Lawrence Parker reviews 'The chronology of revolution: communism, culture, and civil society in twentieth-century Britain' by Ben Harker (University of Toronto Press, 2021, pp376, £63.99)
Something serious is needed
16 Dec 2021
It is clear that Tony Greenstein has abandoned any pretence of adhering to class politics: that is, the class politics of the working class. Jack Conrad defends the Marxist programme against those who advocate yet another broad-front halfway house
Not a liquidation?
09 Dec 2021
Abandoning any pretence of class politics, Tony Greenstein defends what he calls the ‘merger’ of LAW and LIEN and advocates yet another ‘transitional’ halfway-house broad front
Feeding the revolving door
04 Nov 2021
Andrew Byrne, Gerald Wiley and Derek James report on an all too carefully choreographed event staged by the Socialist Appeal comrades
A long-established disorder?
21 Oct 2021
Famous as a polemical target of ‘Leftwing’ communism, ironically Amadeo Bordiga claimed to agree with Lenin’s strategy for world revolution. David Broder investigates
Addressing the central issues
30 Sep 2021
Foppe de Haan returns to his differences with Mike Macnair on the question of the ‘professional-managerial class’
Class, state and constitution
16 Sep 2021
Rising classes have to reshape states in their own interests. Mike Macnair explores the revolutionary origins of capitalist modernity
Centrality of class independence
12 Aug 2021
Khomeini and the clergy completely outmanoeuvred the left. But it need not have been that way. In his second and concluding article on the role of oil workers in the 1979 revolution, Peyman Jafari stresses the complex nature of ideology and class consciousness
False dichotomy
29 Jul 2021
Ollie Douglas reviews 'Marxism and intersectionality: race, gender, class and sexuality under contemporary capitalism' by AJ Bohrer
Generation Left terrifies right
29 Jul 2021
Eddie Ford calls upon Marxists to take up the challenge to organise the socialist majority of young people