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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

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