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
RUC storm
09 Sep 1999
Straw and travellers - New clampdown
02 Sep 1999
Defend New Labour’s latest scapegoats
What kind of republic for Australia?
02 Sep 1999
Inconsistent democracy
02 Sep 1999
Steve Riley opposes Jack Conrad’s arguments for a British-Irish federal entity in a united Ireland to exercise self-determination
Blair’s province of crisis
02 Sep 1999
Could Steve Hedley have kept his job?
26 Aug 1999
In July 1998 over 100 maintenance workers took strike action in defence of sacked RMT shop steward Steve Hedley. The strike was defeated and Hedley remained sacked. With trade union struggles at an all-time low and strike figures at the lowest level ever recorded, it would seem that, at the moment, the employers are ‘too strong’. The case of Steve Hedley would appear to back such views. But did it? Mark Metcalf gives his opinion
Communists and left splits
26 Aug 1999
Livingstone and London Independent Labour
Ireland and the British-Irish
26 Aug 1999
Party notes
Yeltsin’s last throw
19 Aug 1999
With the “failure of market capitalism” Russia continues its disastrous spiral
The right to think
19 Aug 1999
Europe and the politics of the offensive
19 Aug 1999
Lukács, Brecht and bureaucratic socialism - Fraught relationships
29 Jul 1999
Phil Watson reviews ‘Aesthetics and politics’ (Verso, 1999)
Imprisonment without trial
29 Jul 1999
Thunder in a cloudy sky
29 Jul 1999
Mehdi Kia looks at the Iranian students’ revolt
Ireland: weak link
29 Jul 1999
Blair’s entire strategy at risk - Sinn Féin stands to gain