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
Government parties rejected
05 Sep 2024
Alternative für Deutschland was the clear winner in state elections and the establishment has been rattled. But what to make of former ‘official communist’ Sahra Wagenknecht and her BSW? Carla Roberts investigates
Things can only get worse
29 Aug 2024
With three of the top five landlords in parliament Labour MPs, we are seeing a petty-bourgeoisification at the top of the party, writes Eddie Ford
End of the beginning
29 Aug 2024
With the Democratic national convention safely wound up, Paul Demarty assesses the presidential race and peers into an uncertain future
At an impasse
22 Aug 2024
Paul Russell looks at the extraordinary difficulties in finding a prime minister who can command a workable majority. However, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally seems quite content to bide its time till the 2027 presidential election
In search of a synthesis
01 Aug 2024
General strikes can be a tactic. But do they amount to a strategy? Steve Bloom calls for a positive resolution of the differences he has with Mike Macnair’s Revolutionary strategy
Donald the Führer?
01 Aug 2024
Liberal hysteria about Trump abolishing presidential elections - even being a new Hitler - sees the BBC acting as mere propagandists for the US Democrats, writes Eddie Ford
A very Labour ban
25 Jul 2024
Eddie Ford welcomes any moves towards promoting public health, but a total ban on smoking - as with the so-called ‘war on drugs’ - is senseless and likely to be counterproductive
Flip-flopping programmatically
25 Jul 2024
Marcus Strom reviews David Lockwood The politics of the Malayan Communist Party from 1930 to 1948 NUS Press, 2024, pp248, £31
Rats in a sack
18 Jul 2024
Local assemblies are a recipe for chaos, confusion and ineffectiveness. Jeremy Corbyn continues to disappoint, writes Carla Roberts
A grand get-together
18 Jul 2024
Durham Miners Gala has always been a celebration of the labour and trade union movement. But this year, reports Ian Spencer, it had a special poignancy
Crime and revenge
18 Jul 2024
Eddie Ford welcomes the early release of prisoners, but the emphasis should be on rehabilitation, not crisis management
Reeves and her ‘securonomics’
11 Jul 2024
Labour’s leadership is relying on big business to bring the economic growth needed to fix ‘broken Britain’. Michael Roberts predicts a one-term government
Reform Ltd gets five
11 Jul 2024
Politics continues to move to the right, with Reform UK now having a ‘bridgehead’ of MPs, writes Eddie Ford. What happens next with the Tories, now that Kemi Badenoch is the front-runner, remains to be seen
Not marvellous at all
11 Jul 2024
Carla Roberts looks at the deluded souls who are celebrating the low turnout, Labour’s poor share of the vote and the election of four petty bourgeois independents
A Gaza election?
11 Jul 2024
The low turnout and lack of enthusiasm for Labour could not prevent a Tory bloodbath on July 4. Paul Demarty examines the results, and warns of the right’s hidden strength