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
National road to disaster
07 Sep 2023
Some 60,000 died, huge numbers were tortured and driven into exile, the parties of the left were banned and driven underground. Mike Macnair asks if any strategic lessons were learnt
Cold war adumbration
07 Sep 2023
Paul Flewers draws links with the current Ukraine conflict and the 1939-40 war between the Soviet Union and Finland. An anti-communist consensus formed then, while now we have the demonisation of Russia as the new evil empire
From chef to payback
31 Aug 2023
Eddie Ford gives his thoughts on the predictable death of Wagner’s public face and the likely culprit
The Soviet Union in history
31 Aug 2023
Is there progress? There seems to be, in nature and likewise in society. But, argues Jack Conrad, there is retrogression, mutual exhaustion and extinction too
Empty promises, real threats
10 Aug 2023
James Linney picks apart the NHS workforce plan and warns that Sir Keir’s Labour is committed to exactly the same agenda of privatisation and austerity
Gambler of Riyadh
10 Aug 2023
From sportswashing to megacities: what is MBS up to? Paul Demarty investigates the grandiose Vision 2030
Closer to the brink
10 Aug 2023
Donald Trump faces numerous legal challenges. Despite that he runs neck-and-neck with Joe Biden in the polls and could well win the next presidential election. Daniel Lazare gives his take on the pending constitutional crisis
Fuelling the politics of hate
10 Aug 2023
Once again the Tories are targeting migrants. Bibby Stockholm is meant to serve as a deterrent but, in fact, it’s a political weapon designed to prevent electoral meltdown, argues Kevin Bean
Clean air as a right
03 Aug 2023
Following the Uxbridge by-election, there has been a huge row over the extension of London’s Ulez scheme. Both Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer are standing up for the right to pollute. Eddie Ford stands up for the right to breathe clean, unpolluted air
Defending neutrality
03 Aug 2023
What are so-called socialists doing upholding the foreign policy of their ‘own’ bourgeois state? Anne McShane upholds the principles of international socialism
Not a workers’ state
03 Aug 2023
Did the Soviet Union remain a workers’ state from its heroic beginnings to its miserable end? Citing unchanged property relations is clearly unMarxist. What is decisive is production relations, argues Jack Conrad
Online Communist Forum, Sunday July 30 5pm
27 Jul 2023
Year of four trials
27 Jul 2023
Legal case follows legal case. Expect a crack-up even bigger than January 2021, says Daniel Lazare
Venomous targeting of migrants
27 Jul 2023
Despite suffering something of a setback in Spain, the far right is on the march across Europe. Prime responsibility for this, argues Paul Demarty, lies with the left
A tale of three by-elections
27 Jul 2023
Kevin Bean of Labour Party Marxists looks at the state of bourgeois politics and the controversy over so-called green policies