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
How not to stop the BNP
23 Jul 2009
The continued rise of the British National Party raises key questions about the left's strategy. Ben Lewis takes a look at the Socialist Workers Party's analysis and argues for a root-and-branch rethink
Dead Russians
12 Mar 2009
Jack Conrad defends Lenin and Trotsky, and issues a health warning about Arthur Scargill, George Galloway, Robert Griffiths and others who want to forget, belittle or maintain silence over the crimes of Stalin
Britain: before and after the election
12 Mar 2009
On March 12 1984 - 25 years ago - the miners' Great Strike officially began. For the next 12 months, miners and the women of the pit communities fought a desperate battle for jobs, for their communities and for their class. This epic struggle mobilised the support of millions, in this country and across the globe.
Abstention or intervention
12 Feb 2009
After the victory by the Lindsey wildcat strike, James Turley draws some lessons
Stalinist illusions exposed
18 Sep 2008
Mike Macnair explodes the myths about the 'gains' of the USSR
Solzhenitsyn: false prophet
04 Sep 2008
Paul Flewers, author of 'The new civilisation? Understanding Stalin's Soviet Union 1929-1941', investigates how a hero of western anti-communism came to be abandoned by his former promoters
David Davis and democratic rights
10 Jul 2008
The failure of the far left to champion democracy has allowed rightwing polititians to pose as libertarians, argues Mike Macnair
Union struggles need political leadership
01 May 2008
'Summer of discontent' looms, says Peter Manson
Getting real about the BNP
20 Mar 2008
Benjamin Klein takes issue with comrades Jim Grant and Dave Isaacson on the nature of the far right and the threat it poses
In the middle of the 'Road'
06 Mar 2008
Lawrence Parker reveals new evidence of Stalin's legacy in the post-war CPGB programme
Sunshine Stalinism ends?
28 Feb 2008
James Turley looks at the mixed response of the left and the prospect of a 'Cuban Deng'
Sex, murder and DNA tests
28 Feb 2008
Jim Moody asks who controls the social controllers
Julius Caesar and the death agony of the republic
28 Feb 2008
Chris Gray continues his series on the class battles in ancient Rome
Time to say goodbye
21 Feb 2008
Why does the SWP not break its links with holocaust-denier Gilad Atzmon? Tony Greenstein has more evidence of his anti-Jewish racism
Fighting against the odds
21 Feb 2008
In the third article in his series on the Roman empire, Chris Gray looks at the efforts of Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus to defeat the landowning oligarchy