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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

Game, set and match

19 Jun 2025

Ditching auto-Labourism results from strategic bankruptcy, not strategic reorientation. Eddie Ford turns his eyes onto the ‘official communists’ and their abrupt change of line

Cheap pageantry for birthday boy

19 Jun 2025

‘No Kings’ vs ‘Big beautiful parade’. America is not in imminent danger of one-man dictatorship, but the authoritarianism of Trump’s regime is all too evident, argues Paul Demarty

Pro-Palestine symbolism

12 Jun 2025

Rival demonstrations brought large numbers on to the streets of Cork. Some want to drape themselves in the Irish tricolour, others raise the red flag of internationalism. Anne McShane reports

Turning back the clock

12 Jun 2025

No-one has the right not to be offended. The conviction of Hamit Coskun for burning the Koran is to revive the blasphemy laws by the back door. Not something the left should support, writes Eddie Ford

A city occupied

12 Jun 2025

Donald Trump’s escalation of repression in Los Angeles serves to distract from recent embarrassments, but also displays the violence at the heart of the constitutional order, argues Paul Demarty

Have the ‘localists’ won?

05 Jun 2025

Jeremy Corbyn’s project puts on display an embarrassing apolitical hotchpotch of moralistic waffle, but not everyone has given up on the fight for a ‘proper party’. Carla Roberts reports

Soviet strategy and class collaboration

05 Jun 2025

Having declared capitalist collapse imminent, there was a 180-degree about turn. Yassamine Mather looks at the origins and defeats resulting from the popular front

Defeat or victory?

05 Jun 2025

Erdoğan is not interested in democracy or Kurdish national rights. Arguably, the PKK’s guerrilla war served his interests. Esen Uslu puts the case for class politics and exploiting legal opportunities. However, if you talk of ‘defeat’, must you support the resumption of armed struggle?

Dark forces of extraction

29 May 2025

Who are Scattered Spider and how do they do what they do? Paul Demarty investigates the recent spate of ransomware-attacks on top companies and the extreme fragility of global IT systems

Centuries of Stalinism?

22 May 2025

What is the nature of the transition from capitalism to communism? In the first of a series, Mike Macnair begins with the ideas of the 1950s Fourth International and how ‘official communists’ see things today

Small island prospects

15 May 2025

As expected the ruling party has just been re-elected. However, what are the chances for the left and the working class within the confines of a tiny authoritarian city state with an AAA credit rating that serves as a financial hub and tax haven? Billy Clark gives his take on things

Breaking the mould?

08 May 2025

Last week saw major gains for Reform UK - but is Nigel Farage’s outfit about to replace the Tories? They have, after all, been in perpetual chaos for years. Paul Demarty is sceptical

Following the sign of the zigzag

01 May 2025

Peter Taaffe died on April 23 2025. While there can be no doubt about his dedication to what he understood by socialism, there was little or nothing consistent, when it came to his strategic ideas. In many ways, argues Jack Conrad, he embodied all that is wrong with today’s confessional sects

Case of judicial usurpation

24 Apr 2025

The Supreme Court decision on the legal definition of ‘woman’ poses more questions than it answers, but there can be no doubt that it marks a huge victory for the Tory Party and the rightwing media, says Mike Macnair

Socialism and star power

18 Apr 2025

Owen Jones gets it wrong: the bourgeois media’s idea of leadership offers the left no shortcut to power, argues Paul Demarty. We need a party that is democratic, principled and mass

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