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
Schism in Five Star
07 Jul 2022
Toby Abse examines the murky, self-serving reasons behind the latest split in a party once touted as rebels against the hated political caste
Westminster vs Holyrood
07 Jul 2022
James Harvey considers the SNP’s call for a second independence referendum and asks how the left should respond
Going, going, gone
07 Jul 2022
Britain will soon have a new Tory prime minister, writes Paul Demarty. Meanwhile, Sir Keir is copying Sir Tony and his triangulation strategy, while the left is whispering about yet another broad party
To play the king
30 Jun 2022
Despite two by-election defeats and partygate, Eddie Ford does not write off Boris Johnson quite yet
Democracy in America?
30 Jun 2022
The latest attack on abortion rights shows the danger of worshipping the constitution, writes Daniel Lazare
The party question is key
30 Jun 2022
After the Supreme Court ruling, the left is debating strategy and tactics. But the key must be establishing a party and the best place to begin is breaking the DSA from the liberal wing of the bourgeoisie, argues Matthew Strupp of the Marxist Unity Group
Mick Lynch meets the media
30 Jun 2022
We cannot rely on the ‘balance, fairness and objectivity’ of the enemy’s press and television - we need our own full-spectrum alternative, argues Paul Demarty
Summer of discontent
30 Jun 2022
Workers in other unions have been inspired by the RMT. James Harvey argues for coordination, unity and political organisation that goes beyond Labourism
Enough is enough
23 Jun 2022
Gaby Rubin welcomes the RMT’s successful strike action and sees an opportunity to re-establish trade union strength and power - if there is a willingness to defy the law
Le Pen surges forward
23 Jun 2022
The danger is that the left will use anti-fascism as an excuse to cut a deal with the liberal centre. To put it mildly, that would be a profound mistake, warns Paul Demarty
A very liberal convert
23 Jun 2022
Sir Bernard Pares was a bitter opponent of Bolshevism and actively supported the whites during the civil war. However, after his 1935 visit to Moscow, he became an apologist for the Stalin regime. Despite that, as Paul Flewers shows, he was still capable of penetrating insights
A name that spells trouble
23 Jun 2022
The YCL's very public pro-Stalin chanting at the recent TUC demo was clearly a provocation aimed directly at Robert Griffiths and his timid leadership of the CPB, writes Lawrence Parker
Banging same old drum
16 Jun 2022
It has nothing to do with business in Northern Ireland, everything to do with keeping the Red Wall seats. James Harvey explores the politics behind Boris Johnson’s plans to scrap the Northern Ireland protocol
At whose service?
16 Jun 2022
Reform of primary care should not be trusted to the likes of Policy Exchange, writes James Linney. This ‘independent’ think tank was set up by Tories to serve the Tory agenda of cost-saving and profit-making
Same colour, same aim
16 Jun 2022
Boris Johnson narrowly survived, but he is far from secure. However, the left needs to go beyond chanting ‘Tories out’, because today that implicitly means ‘Sir Keir and Blue Labour in’, says Paul Demarty