Democracy & State
Overcoming the enemies within
17 May 2012
The left must unite in order to change the relationship of forces both within and outside the Labour Party, argues Mike Macnair
Back to the past - again
21 Oct 2021
James Harvey looks at the latest round in the Brexit saga and asks where it might all be heading
Common caste identity
21 Oct 2021
Eddie Ford says that the killing of rightwing Tory MP David Amess reveals a lot about careerist politicians in general. And not only on the Labour right … there is the official and unofficial Labour ‘left’ too
Honouring the victims
14 Oct 2021
On October 9 a group of Iranian revolutionaries, now mainly based in North America and Europe, organised an online meeting to commemorate the 1988 massacre of political prisoners. Among the speakers were Yassamine Mather, Shahin Chitsaz and Mike Macnair
Facing ecological meltdown
14 Oct 2021
Eddie Ford is not surprised to learn that Britain is one of the world’s most nature-depleted countries
A market opportunity
14 Oct 2021
What’s behind the campaign for face-to-face consultations? James Linney gives a GP’s view
A disaster foretold
07 Oct 2021
HGV drivers, petrol, empty supermarket shelves - Britain’s dependence on global supply chains has been badly exposed. Paul Demarty investigates
Tudor, Whig or what?
07 Oct 2021
No ultimate source of sovereignty: Daniel Lazare takes issue with Mike Macnair on the nature of the US constitution
Secret world of the elite
07 Oct 2021
Access capitalism and mammoth corruption have been laid bare by the Pandora papers, writes Danny Hammill
Vigorous debate
07 Oct 2021
Paul Drummond reports on the discussions at last weekend’s meeting of CPGB and LPM comrades
Cold war hots up
07 Oct 2021
As the US and Britain set about arming Australia with nuclear-powered subs and Indian troops dig in at high altitude, Chinese warplanes prod and probe Taiwan’s air defences. Eddie Ford warns that a shooting war is far from impossible
Around conference left
30 Sep 2021
LPM comrades William Sarsfield, Andrew Byrne and Stan Keable report on fringe meetings, hubs and bulletins
Setting the record straight
30 Sep 2021
Tony Greenstein reviews 'Labour, the anti-Semitism crisis and the destroying of an MP' by Lee Garratt (Thinkwell Books, 2021, pp237, £10)
Decline and decay
30 Sep 2021
Mike Macnair shows that the post-1945 and post-1976 global ascendancy of US-style constitutionalism is at the core of the current liberal impasse
Cargo-cult Blairism
30 Sep 2021
Here we are supposed to have the intellectual background. What is revealed is a sad lack of intellectual background. Paul Demarty reviews Keir Starmer's 'The road ahead' (Fabian Ideas, 2021, pp32, £5.95)
Focus group goop
30 Sep 2021
Left treated with blatant contempt. Right relishes its witch-hunt triumph. Andrew Kirkland of Labour Party Marxists reports from the Brighton conference hall