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
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
Threat of witch-hunt averted
13 Nov 2014
Stan Keable reports on the Labour Representation Committee’s November 8 annual conference
A pseudo-democratic caricature
06 Nov 2014
The problem is not the House of Lords’ London bias, or even its unelected character: there should be no second chamber, argues Paul Demarty
Organise the militant minority
06 Nov 2014
The attacks on the miners were aimed at breaking organised labour in general; but union bureaucrats failed to rise to the challenge of building mass solidarity. Jack Conrad argued for a rank-and-file movement in this Leninist reprint
Class struggle intensifies
06 Nov 2014
Toby Abse reports on both verbal and physical clashes, as workers resist the latest attacks from ‘Italy’s Tony Blair’
Supplement: Labour Party Marxists No.5
30 Oct 2014
A special supplement from our friends at LPM
Jack Collins: We could swamp them
30 Oct 2014
In 1984 The Leninist interviewed Jack Collins, area secretary of Kent NUM who went on to become disillusioned with the CPGB leadership
Child abuse: Adding insult to injury
30 Oct 2014
Theresa May’s decision to make Lady Woolf the new head of the child abuse inquiry could turn out to be deeply embarrassing, writes Eddie Ford
Branson’s pickle
30 Oct 2014
Noreen Branson History of the Communist Party of Great Britain 1927-1941 Lawrence and Wishart, 2014, pp376, £17.99; and History of the Communist Party of Great Britain 1941-1951 Lawrence and Wishart, 1997, pp262, £14.99
Marching in defence of article 18
30 Oct 2014
Last weekend’s mass mobilisation in Rome was inspiring, writes Toby Abse. But will trade union militancy be enough?
Cometh the Brand?
30 Oct 2014
Russell Brand’s anarchistic leftism is sincere enough, but his unlikely importance speaks volumes about the left’s weakness, says Paul Demarty