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 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
Mistaken versions of Maoism
28 Jun 2018
Two books on intersectionality reviewed: 'How we get free: black feminism and the Combahee River Collective' by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Haymarket, 2017, pp191, £9.70) and Asad Haider's 'Mistaken identity: race and class in the age of Trump' (Verso, 2018, pp132, £9.90)
Race and class
21 Jun 2018
Mike Macnair examines the critiques of intersectionality developed by Adolph Reed Jr and Walter Benn Michaels
Intersectionality is a dead end
07 Jun 2018
Sections of the left are beginning to cotton on to the extent to which ‘identity politics’ and ‘intersectionality’ are neoliberal projects, argues Mike Macnair. But they do not yet offer a clear alternative
May 68 to colour revolutions
31 May 2018
The left has used the May 68 événements as evidence for a distorted concept of revolution, argues Mike Macnair. By doing so it has even endorsed ‘revolutions’ in the service of reaction. This is an edited version of a talk given to the May 27 London Communist Forum
Wonderful yet underperformed
10 May 2018
Jack Conrad looks back at the May-June events that rocked France 50 years ago
Who remembers Marx?
10 May 2018
Paul Demarty marks 200 years since the birth of the founder of scientific socialism
Build on what we achieved
26 Apr 2018
Kevin Bean of Liverpool UCU looks back at the university pensions dispute
Pulling the handbrake
12 Apr 2018
How revolutionary were the bourgeois revolutions? Neil Davidson spoke to Communist University about the lessons for today