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
Bourgeois revolutions and breaking national myths
16 Oct 2003
Neil Davidson, a member of the Socialist Worker platform in the SSP, systematically takes apart what commonly passes for Scottish history. This is an edited version of the opening he gave to this year's Communist University
Labour socialists and SSP
16 Oct 2003
Can Labour be reclaimed? Are avenues of dissent concreted over? Vince Mills secretary of the Campaign for Socialism - a group within the Scottish Labour Party - speaks to Mark Fischer
Rewinning our day
01 May 2003
It is time we reclaim May Day from the Stalinists, says Eddie Ford
Stalin's system of terror
06 Mar 2003
The 50th anniversary of Joseph Stalin's death on March 5 1953 has been used as an occasion to revisit the massive terror he personally ordered and presided over from the late 1920s onwards. Jack Conrad investigates the legacy of 'the man of steel'
The left and the Muslim Association
06 Feb 2003
Jack Conrad discusses Marxist strategy and tactics
What is political islam?
28 Nov 2002
Should communists and revolutionary socialists cooperate with groups like the Muslim Association of Britain? Two CPGB comrades come to opposite conclusions
Preparing for power
31 Oct 2002
In the seventh and concluding article in his series Jack Conrad peers into the future
Dictatorship of the proletariat: Bolshevism versus Kautskyism
24 Oct 2002
In the sixth part of his series of articles Jack Conrad discusses the debate between Lenin, Trotsky and Kautsky
Proletarian dictatorship as theory and practice
17 Oct 2002
In the fifth part of his series of articles Jack Conrad discusses the contradictory impact of the October Revolution
Russian means and the dictatorship of the minority
10 Oct 2002
In the fourth of his series of articles Jack Conrad examines the background to Lenin's use of the word 'dictatorship' and the role played by the Mensheviks
Dictatorship of the proletariat and the Second International
03 Oct 2002
In the third of his articles discussing peaceful and violent revolution Jack Conrad examines the use of the term 'dictator-ship of the proletariat' after Marx an Engels
Formulation nine and the dictatorship of the proletariat - part two
26 Sep 2002
Jack Conrad continues his reply to those who have attacked the recently updated 'What we fight for' column as a move to the right
Formulation nine and the possibility of peaceful revolution
19 Sep 2002
Jack Conrad begins a series on peaceful revolution
Anti-fascism after Oldham
21 Jun 2001
MI6 and UK Independence Party
31 May 2001
Tories? desperate throw