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
Resisting the incoming tide
09 Feb 2023
Daniel Lazare pours scorn on the House of Representatives’ utterly incoherent, but revealing, resolution condemning the ‘horrors of socialism’
Picket lines and ballot box
09 Feb 2023
Mass strikes, soaring food and energy prices, Tory sleaze scandals - all speak of the return of the ‘British disease’. Eddie Ford says that is why sections of the mainstream media could well back Sir Keir in 2024, and why we need our own political alternative
Dispatches from the warzone
02 Feb 2023
The Tories are deliberately running down the NHS and the human cost is horrendous. But James Linney does not reckon Labour’s plans amount to anything much better
From Dixon to Carrick
02 Feb 2023
Following the latest scandal involving the Met, Eddie Ford agrees with SWP’s call for the abolition of the police. But then what?
Devolution non-recognition
02 Feb 2023
UK government uses the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill as an excuse to assert ministers’ right to micro-manage Holyrood legislation for Tory electoral advantage. Mike Macnair explores the issues
Salvaging the wreck?
02 Feb 2023
Kevin Bean of Labour Party Marxists assesses the parlous state of the official left - illusions must be cast aside
Oil workers join protests
26 Jan 2023
All manner of tiny cracks are opening up at the top levels of the theocracy. Yassamine Mather looks behind the often arcane disputes
Low stunts, high politics
26 Jan 2023
In the run-up to the May elections, the provocations of anti-Muslim rightwingers have been a godsend for Erdoğan, writes Esen Uslu
From amidst the wreckage
26 Jan 2023
Talal Hangari banks on staying in Labour and the left uniting to defeat the bans and proscriptions
Safe space for Zionism
26 Jan 2023
The left should and will reject Rebecca Tuck’s report into ‘anti-Semitism’ - but our own errors make it hard to fight back, argues Paul Demarty
German Ostpolitik collapses
26 Jan 2023
What lies behind the furore over sending Leopard 2 tanks to the Ukraine battlefield? Something deeper is going on, writes Daniel Lazare
Not equality to compete
19 Jan 2023
Communists should demand special measures to protect women from capitalist exploitation, not ‘genuine equality’ in the workplace. Daniel Lazare investigates the Pump Act
The future is being made today
19 Jan 2023
Veteran Iranian socialist Ardeshir Mehrdad calls for class politics and the mobilisation of the lower depths of society
Shoras, party and programme
19 Jan 2023
Illusions in so-called bourgeois democracy persist - as do illusions in workers’ councils. Mike Macnair stresses the necessity of a mass party
Escalation on every front
19 Jan 2023
Moshé Machover looks at the new Israeli government and what it means when it comes to Palestinian oppression, ethnic cleansing, religious intolerance and the danger of war with Iran