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
Devil in the detail
22 Nov 2007
Mark Fischer spoke to both sides of an important debate at the November 17 Labour left conference
Thoughtcrime 2007
15 Nov 2007
Should an islamist fantastist like Samina Malik be imprisoned for writing 'terrorist poetry'? Jim Moody thinks not
Dangerous material
15 Nov 2007
Just how accessible are the documents found on Samina Malik's computer? Some examples should suffice to make the point.
National fetishes
08 Nov 2007
It is that time of year when almost every public figure wears a plastic poppy, to commemorate the casualties of war. James Turley inquires into the roots and role of this practice
Fight for the right to know
25 Oct 2007
Benjamin Klein calls for postal workers to reject the settlement with Royal Mail and for an end to bureaucratic secrecy
Plumbers and teachers
25 Oct 2007
James Turley is not surprised that 10 years of Labour rule have not created a "classless society". But does class still matter?
Reject the rotten deal
18 Oct 2007
Benjamin Klein urges militant postal workers to organise independently and develop links with others in the public sector. But more is needed
Tory revival will squeeze left
11 Oct 2007
Carey Davies comments
Orwellian experience
11 Oct 2007
Today British politicians shed crocodile tears over the repression of the Burmese regime, but the terror of Than Shwe cannot equal the brutality and arrogance endured by the Burmese people under British colonial rule from 1886 to 1948. Emily Branson comments
Booze, fags and turkey twizzlers
11 Oct 2007
On October 1, it became illegal for under-18s to buy tobacco. James Turley comments
Spin on this, Brown
11 Oct 2007
Gordon Brown should not have the right to dedice when the electorate get to vote. Jim Moody calls for annual parliaments
Labour left at sea
04 Oct 2007
Confusion rules after the Labour conference in Bournemouth, writes Dave Isaacson
Tell it like it is
04 Oct 2007
The CPGB has been much criticised over its willingness to use the enemy's media and its insistence on defending free speech. Jack Conrad explains why communists should stand against censorship and strive to expose opportunism
UCU debate closed down
04 Oct 2007
Moshé Machover's article was written in 2005, before the Association of University Teachers and the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education merged, in June 2006, to form the University and College Union. The UCU's inaugural congress in May 2007 carried a motion agreeing to circulate a call to boycott Israeli academic institutions and to encourage members to debate it. But on September 28 the UCU leadership, pleading 'legal advice', declared that any such boycott, and even the proposal to debate it, would be 'unlawful'. This letter of protest was sent to The Guardian, but has not been published
Time to unite our fractured ranks
27 Sep 2007
Dave Vincent (secretary of the Greater Manchester DCA branch of the PCS and is writing in a personal capacity) looks at the divided left in the PCS