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
Fight on two fronts
08 Jun 2006
On the eve of the Stop the War Coalition annual conference on June 10, Mark Fischer spoke to Mehdi Kia of Iran Bulletin/Middle East Forum about the tasks of the anti-war movement in this country. Does our opposition to imperialist threats against Iran mean we must suspend criticism of the monstrous theocratic regime that oppresses the country?
A Chartist trade union party?
01 Jun 2006
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group looks forward to a synthesis of reform and revolution
Manufacturing royal consent
25 May 2006
Gordon Downie takes a look at the May 20 concert of the 'Prince's Trust'
Virtues and vices
25 May 2006
Jack Conrad pays tribute to the role of the CPGB in 1926. But as well as heroism there were limitations
The minimum platform and extreme democracy
18 May 2006
Under what conditions should communists participate in government? Mike Macnair revisits the strategic problem of authority
A study in bureaucratic inertia
18 May 2006
Jack Conrad shows that, while the Tory government assiduously and ruthlessly prepared for the 1926 general strike, the TUC was content to pass left-sounding resolutions
Into the dustbin of history
11 May 2006
Graham Bash of 'Labour Left Briefing' looks forward to Blair's demise in the aftermath of the May 4 local elections
Days of black and red
11 May 2006
In the second article on the general strike and its turbulent background Jack Conrad looks at the delayed birth of the CPGB and the course of events from black Friday to red Friday
80 years since the general strike - From world war to councils of action
04 May 2006
Jack Conrad begins a series of articles examining the 1926 general strike
Against war, for workers' rights
04 May 2006
Yassamine Mather reports on Iranian workers taking to the streets on May Day
Members need political strategy
04 May 2006
Lee Rock, national secretary of PCSU Socialist Caucus, reports on the May 2-3 strike of tens of thousands of civil servants
Reactionary hysteria
04 May 2006
The furore over "1,000 foreign criminals" raises some basic questions about rehabilitation, border controls and chauvinist discrimination, writes Eddie Ford
What we need
04 May 2006
For the first time in many years there was actually some kind of showing from the trade unions on the London May Day march. Alan Fox reports
Arriving republics?
27 Apr 2006
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group contrasts the anti-monarchist mass movement in Nepal with the queen's birthday celebrations in Britain
Driven by neglect
20 Apr 2006
The British National Party really could not have hoped for better press in the lead-up to the May local elections in England. Huw Bynon reports