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
Pushed as far as we will go
01 Dec 2011
David Douglass reviews Keith Pattison and David Peace 'No redemption: the 1984-85 miners' strike in the Durham coalfield' Flambard Press, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2010, pp104,
Forging unified class action
01 Dec 2011
Dave Vincent reports on the build-up to the big public sector strike
SUPPLEMENT: Classical Marxism and the general strike
24 Nov 2011
Dreaming of 1945
24 Nov 2011
The time for reformist timidity is long passed, argues Maciej Zurowski in his report of the Labour Representation Committee's annual conference
Appearances are everything
24 Nov 2011
Peter Manson reports on the SWP's obsession with numbers regarding its latest recruiting front
Unite behind the sparks
24 Nov 2011
Craft workers and labourers must find common cause, urges Gerry Downing
A flag tainted with brown
24 Nov 2011
Chris Strafford condemns the Morning Star-sponsored meeting of nationalists, anti-Semites, and homophobes
Democracy against capitalism
24 Nov 2011
The ascension of self-styled technocrats to political power is the latest proof that capitalism is antithetical to democracy, argues James Turley
Debating the republic and extreme democracy
17 Nov 2011
Ben Lewis reports on some interesting exchanges at the 'Historical Materialism' weekend
Carrot and stick
17 Nov 2011
Francis Maude's idiotic '15-minute strike' suggestion reveals a disquiet at the heart of the government, argues James Turley
Patriotism and pyromania
10 Nov 2011
Police action against 'poppy-burners' reveals the murky chauvinist undercurrent to Remembrance Day, argues James Turley
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,