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
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
Unions capitulate to Gordon Brown
27 Sep 2007
Graham Bash of Labour Briefing comments on the closing down of the remaining vestiges of Labour Party democracy at the Bournemouth conference
Beyond the prison walls
20 Sep 2007
How should communists respond to any upsurge in industrial action? Last month's POA dispute offers some useful lessons. Jack Conrad examines the arguments
Toothless motions and hysterical attacks
20 Sep 2007
The proposed UCU boycott of Israeli universities is an ineffective weapon, argues Hillel Ticktin.1 This is the first in a series of articles on the issue which will feature various writers
The prison officers dilemma
13 Sep 2007
Cameron Richards takes issue with Jim Moody's article 'The turn of the screws' (September 6) and the position of the CPGB leadership
The turn of the screws
06 Sep 2007
Jim Moody comments on last week's strike of the Prison Officers' Association and asks: Are prison officers state agents or workers in uniform?
Who's going to deliver?
09 Aug 2007
While support for Royal Mail strikes remains solid, the leadership of the Communication Workers Union is at a loss over how to combat the highly political onslaught by a government-backed management. Jim Moody writes