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
Lenin and the United States of Europe
03 Nov 2011
Jack Conrad takes issue with the attempt to recruit Lenin to the CPB nationalist camp
No alternative posed
03 Nov 2011
Anne Mc Shane sees the economy and the failing capitalist system as the central question in Ireland
Vile class-collaboration on display at Westminster
27 Oct 2011
Peter Manson looks at the reaction of the Morning Star to the defeat of the Commons motion for a referendum on the European Union
Images of a slaughtered past
27 Oct 2011
David Douglass reviews Peter Tuffrey, Doncaster's collieries (Amberley Publishing, 2011, pp128,
ANC bureaucrats target youth league demagogue
20 Oct 2011
The South African Communist Party has no answer to Julius Malema's black nationalism, writes Peter Manson
Lessons from 'history'
20 Oct 2011
Laurence Parker reviews Robert Griffiths and Ben Stevenson, The Communist Party 1920-2010: 90 years of struggle for the working class and humanity (CPB History Group, 2010, pp44,
Guarding the chicken coop
13 Oct 2011
James Turley looks at the unfolding Liam Fox scandal
Labour needs Marxism
13 Oct 2011
Workers must aim to take the organisations of the movement - including the Labour Party - away from the bureaucracy's control. Alex John reports on last weekend's aggregate of CPGB members
Cuts and cat-fights
06 Oct 2011
The Conservative Party's annual conference produced a lot of empty rhetoric, a few concessions for the right and one clanger from the front benches, writes James Turley - but no surprises
Besancenot: go beyond outdated national borders
06 Oct 2011
Last weekend's Europe Against Austerity event adopted the aim of a 'day of industrial action' across the continent in 2012. Peter Manson reports on the conference's strengths and weaknesses
Building for November 30
06 Oct 2011
Chris Strafford reports from protests at the Conservative Party conference
Suffocating lack of democracy
06 Oct 2011
Delegate Jim Moody gives his impressions of the Liverpool Labour Party conference
Mapping the alternative
29 Sep 2011
The workers' movement must begin to act on a European scale, argues Mike Macnair
Off-colour Blairites
29 Sep 2011
Ed Miliband is being attacked from the right, argues James Turley
They obeyed the rules
29 Sep 2011
Mark Fischer busts the myths of the Jarrow Crusade