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
Besancenot: go beyond outdated national borders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
Miliband reassures capital
29 Sep 2011
Peter Manson considers Ed Miliband's vacuous speech to Labour Party conference
Four victims of industrial demise
22 Sep 2011
David Douglass looks at the background to last week's tragic events at Gleision pit in south Wales
Shoot the messenger
22 Sep 2011
Bourgeois political power is not as unassailable as they would like us to think. Our rulers can be relied upon, periodically, to split. James Turley looks at the botched attempt of the Metropolitan Police to use the Official Secrets Act
Side with working class or, in the name of god, go
15 Sep 2011
The TUC congress represented a positive step towards united working class resistance against coalition attacks, writes Peter Manson
A triumphant victory?
08 Sep 2011
Claire Fisher and Maciej Zurowski report on the English Defence League demonstration in east London and the response of anti-fascists
Market logic challenged by eight-hour general strike
08 Sep 2011
This week the increasingly moribund government of Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has faced simultaneous attacks on two fronts: from the speculators and the European Central Bank, on the one hand; and from a general strike by the most militant section of Italy's organised working class, on the other. Toby Abse reports
Aftermath of August
01 Sep 2011
Eddie Ford looks at the response to the UK riots, both from the establishment and the left
A fleeting moment of power, pure joy and fulfilment
11 Aug 2011
Our movement needs to provide hope for a generation of young people who have lost all hope - that can only be done by making real our vision of working class rule and socialism, argues Peter Manson
Tottenham protest sparked it all
11 Aug 2011
Maciej Zurowski encountered angry locals and grinning cops