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
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Besancenot: go beyond outdated national borders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
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