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
The snowball effect
20 Mar 2025
Mike Macnair details the long and difficult road to the 1875 Gotha congress of the ‘Eisenacher’ SDAP and ‘Lassallean’ ADAV. With unity there was an organisational take-off and an ability to survive harsh state repression
Sturgeon no more
20 Mar 2025
Talented, personable, politically astute and, in the end, a complete failure. Scott Evans looks at the rise and fall of Scotland’s former first minister
Notes on America
20 Mar 2025
Donald Trump’s administration is contemplating a grand reordering of global finance and trade. Europe will suffer, but, argues Jack Conrad, China is the main target
Big trouble in Little England
13 Mar 2025
Though riding high in the polls, Reform UK has been plunged into recriminations. Paul Demarty assesses the party’s prospects after the Rupert Lowe affair
Abdullah Öcalan’s statement
06 Mar 2025
Ending armed resistance
06 Mar 2025
There is a new phase opening up along with new challenges. Esen Uslu explains the call for the PKK to lay down arms and dissolve itself in favour of ‘normal’ political activity
Searching for the master key
06 Mar 2025
Trump’s administration promises to release files on John F Kennedy, Jeffrey Epstein and others - but so far substance is lacking. Paul Demarty delves into the role of pseudo-disclosures in the American mind
From powerhouse to powderkeg
27 Feb 2025
AfD was the big winner but Die Linke got a real boost too. Carla Roberts does not rate the chances of the centre holding for much longer
Notes on the war
20 Feb 2025
Three years since the launch of the ‘special military operation’, the post-World War II order is being shredded by America. Trump is a revolutionary counterrevolutionary, says Jack Conrad
Venezuelan lessons
06 Feb 2025
Chris Gray reviews Chris Gilbert Commune or nothing! Venezuela’s communal movement and its socialist project Monthly Review Press 2023, pp216, £18
March to the right
06 Feb 2025
Reform is now polling ahead of both Labour and the Tories. But our prime focus should not be on the far right. No, says Eddie Ford, we need a principled programme and a working class alternative to Labourism
Sex, drugs and Davos
30 Jan 2025
In the bars and bedrooms, government tops, business executives and other members of the global elite reveal what they actually think about climate change, writes Eddie Ford
Arithmetic of genocide
23 Jan 2025
While the official numbers killed in Gaza is certainly an underestimate, the state, aided by the BBC, tries to muddy the waters, writes Ian Spencer
Baleful influence continues
16 Jan 2025
His death has been celebrated by the left. Paul Russell looks at the life, politics and family feuds of Jean-Marie Le Pen
On the merry-go-round
05 Dec 2024
Discontent with the government has not translated into change. In fact, what is notable is the lack of change, reports Anne McShane