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
Hollow man for hollow times
25 Feb 2021
Much hyped though it was, the ‘new chapter’ speech was a ‘painting by numbers’ exercise in political platitudes, writes James Harvey
The Firm vs the Sussexes
25 Feb 2021
Monarchy is part reality TV show, part constitutional check on democracy, writes Eddie Ford
We light fires
18 Feb 2021
One half of the Labour Campaign for Free Speech does not believe in free speech. They want a ‘free speech, but ...’ campaign. Jack Conrad explains why the left should champion the unrestricted right to organise, strike, assemble and speak
End the contradiction
18 Feb 2021
James Harvey reports on a timely conference that produced a strange outcome
Live at the witch trials
18 Feb 2021
Starmer’s ‘advisory board’ is part of a wider push to eliminate all opposition to Israel, says Paul Demarty
Still not prepared to fight
11 Feb 2021
The readmittance of suspended members does not mean that the right is in retreat, argues James Harvey
Handcuffed gates
11 Feb 2021
Students are resisting the academic cronies imposed on them by the Erdoğan regime. Esen Uslu reports
Bigger than January 6
11 Feb 2021
Donald Trump is now on trial before the Senate charged with inciting insurrection. Jack Conrad says the attempted self-coup began long before the January 6 storming of the Capitol
Fishy business in Holyrood
11 Feb 2021
With the Holyrood inquiry being branded a whitewash, Paul Demarty asks what really lies behind the Sturgeon-Salmond feud
SUPPLEMENT: Three waves of protest
04 Feb 2021
Feelings of injustice, a lack of rights and a sense of betrayal have become universal and act as psychological and subjective drivers of protest, writes Ardeshir Mehrdad. But how can protest be forged into a movement than can topple the regime?
Collapse of Corbyn project
04 Feb 2021
Tony Greenstein reviews 'Left out: the inside story of Labour under Corbyn' by Benjamin Pogrund and Patrick McGuire as well Owen Jones's 'This land: the struggle for the left'
Class, disease and fatality
04 Feb 2021
Britain has one of the very best vaccination programmes, writes Eddie Ford, but also one of the very worst death rates
Facing both ways
04 Feb 2021
Last weekend’s conference ended up adopting two totally contradictory positions. James Harvey of Labour Party Marxists reports
Poor man’s pivot
04 Feb 2021
The government’s decision to join an Asia-Pacific free trade area is not likely to provide much shelter from economic headwinds, argues Paul Demarty
The meaning of January 6
04 Feb 2021
A riot, a coup attempt or something in between? Daniel Lazare responds to three recently published articles in the Weekly Worker