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
Left helps screw it up
08 Jan 2015
The left failed the test of the Miners Strike, argues Mark Fischer
After old man Napolitano
08 Jan 2015
As the Italian president prepares to step down, Toby Abse looks at the likely contenders
What if Syriza wins?
08 Jan 2015
Is the left obliged to spread illusions in a Syriza government? No, quite the opposite, argues Eddie Ford
Ramsay MacKinnock and Judas Willis - Dump them!
11 Dec 2014
The tone of this Jack Conrad front page from the December 1984 issue of The Leninist reflects the urgent situation the miners found themselves in at the end of the year. With the divisions in the union’s ranks hardening and the lack of effective solidarity from the wider workers’ movement, the strike was approaching a crossroads. While there was still everything to fight for, there were some ominous storm clouds gathering
Chancellor’s book of doom
11 Dec 2014
George Osborne’s autumn statement promises continued austerity and increased attacks on the working class, writes Eddie Ford. But what is the left’s alternative?
SACP splits unions down the middle
11 Dec 2014
Peter Manson reports on the expulsion of Cosatu’s biggest affiliate
Intensification or resolution?
04 Dec 2014
As the miner's strike approached a crossroads, president of Kent NUM Malcolm Pitt spoke to The Leninist
Anti-migrant snake oil
04 Dec 2014
Cameron’s immigration speech was an attempt to out-Labour Labour, says Eddie Ford
Non-historic people
27 Nov 2014
The Radical Independence Campaign wants to hold the SNP to account. Who are they kidding? asks Paul Demarty
Fragmentation shrinks the mainstream
27 Nov 2014
Rochester shows that everything is up in the air. The outcome of the next general election is impossible to predict, writes Eddie Ford
Doing a Scottish jig
27 Nov 2014
Alan Woods has performed a 180 degree about-turn. Daniel Harvey comments
The beginning of new unionism
20 Nov 2014
Louise Raw Striking a light: the Bryant and May match women and their place in history Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011, pp300, £17.99
Strikes, smoke bombs and tear gas
20 Nov 2014
Toby Abse reports on the latest union action and the autonomists’ social strike
Immigration controls kill
20 Nov 2014
Eddie Ford calls for the abolition of all border controls, not just ‘racist’ ones
Coup that never was
13 Nov 2014
The campaign against Ed Miliband is part of a long tradition, writes Eddie Ford