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
NUM in court: Arthur Scargill’s dacha debacle
10 Jan 2013
David Douglass comments on the decline and fall of Arthur Scargill's reputation
USSR polemic: In defence of defencism
10 Jan 2013
The Soviet Union did indeed feature a form a form of planning, argues Jim Creegan in his reply to Paul Flewers
Moshé Machover review: The intersemitic crisis
10 Jan 2013
Chris Gray reviews: Moshé Machover, 'Israelis and Palestinians: conflict and resolution', Haymarket Books, 2012, pp327, £17.99
'Official' CPGB History: Scotching the myths
10 Jan 2013
The history of the official CPGB was much more complex than tankies versus Euros. This is the book-launch speech given by Lawrence Parker in December
Gay marriage: Compromising with bigots
20 Dec 2012
The marriage equality law is now a shambles - because David Camerons government is hostage to incorrigible reactionaries, argues Paul Demarty
Tyneside history: A legacy of struggle
06 Dec 2012
David Douglass reviews: Joseph M Fewster, 'The keelmen of Tyneside: labour organisation and conflict in the north-east coal industry 1600-1830', The Boydell Press, 2011, pp232, £60
By elections: Austerity assault intensifies
06 Dec 2012
The coalition is not as weak as last weeks election results suggest, says Peter Manson
Middlesborough review: Rapid development and workers’ struggle
29 Nov 2012
David Douglass reviews: Minoru Yasumoto, 'The rise of a Victorian ironopolis: Middlesbrough and regional industrialisation', Boydell Press, 2011, pp250, £60
USSR Review: Sticking with old dogmas that have failed time and again
29 Nov 2012
Paul Flewers reviews: Workers Power, 'The degenerated revolution: the rise and fall of the Stalinist states', Prinkipo, 2012, pp584, £13.90
Police: Hundred-million facelift disaster
22 Nov 2012
As expected, voters wanted nothing to do with last weeks PCC elections, writes Jim Moody
LRC AGM: No short cuts to rebuilding
22 Nov 2012
The November 10 AGM of the Labour Representation Committee was on balance positive. But the left is still painfully weak both organisationally and politically. Andy Gunton of Labour Party Marxists gives his assessment
Democracy and state: Revolutionary road - a bourgeois saga
15 Nov 2012
Marc Mulholland examines the complex interrelationship between democracy, class struggles and the state
Socialist Party: Economist republicanism
08 Nov 2012
The Socialist Party's economism was on full display during a session on the monarchy and the state reports Peter Manson
Socialism 2012: Labour: for a ‘civil war’
08 Nov 2012
Is TUSC the new Labour Party? Mark Fischer reports from a Socialism 2012 session on Labour
Socialist Party: Joining the nationalist bandwagon
08 Nov 2012
Sarah McDonald reports on SPEW's commitment to socialism in one country