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
Individualism or class struggle?
21 Feb 2019
René Gimpel examines the philosophical and political development of Jean-Paul Sartre, and his fraught relationship with the French Communist Party
The spectre of socialism
14 Feb 2019
Paul Demarty casts a critical eye over the rise of self-styled socialists in the Democratic Party
The Tory interpretation
31 Jan 2019
Mike Macnair argues that there is an institutional bias in the teaching of history. It is a bias that suits the agenda of those who believe in inequality, the natural order and firm government
Working class trade policy
20 Dec 2018
Mike Macnair concludes his series on ‘free trade’ by looking at the positive alternative
Immigration: ignoring the problem
29 Nov 2018
Fighting for open borders means facing up to the reality of mass migration, argues Paul Demarty
Theories that kill
22 Nov 2018
Thomas Klikauer looks at the connection between ‘fake news’ and the far right
Value is a human creation
08 Nov 2018
John Bridge takes issue with those who see value as being natural to all societies and all times. Communism will leave behind such fetishistic forms
German revolution: diverted and betrayed by leaders of official social democracy
01 Nov 2018
In this supplement, Ben Lewis shows how the heroic actions of November 1918 were doomed by misleaders
A new beginning?
20 Sep 2018
Marcel van der Linden examines the state of the global labour movement
From Postgate to Barthélemy
06 Sep 2018
Marc Mulholland tells the story of a French revolutionary hanged for murder in London in 1855
Dead end of intersectionality
02 Aug 2018
Only the working class can unify the oppressed, argues Mike Macnair. This is an edited version of his talk at the July 29 London Communist Forum
Tactics, principles and willing dupes
19 Jul 2018
What attitude should the left take to the People’s Vote campaign and its call for a second referendum? Jack Conrad insists that referendums are a backward, not a forward step for democracy
Big Meeting lives on
19 Jul 2018
David Douglass reports on the134th Durham Miners Gala
Irrational optimism
12 Jul 2018
Mike Macnair responds to Rex Dunn’s arguments about Trotskyism and May 1968
Getting beyond capitalism
05 Jul 2018
Mike Macnair completes his critique of intersectionality and identity politics