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

Ireland: rearm for new struggles

13 Jun 1996

First it was talks about talks; now it is ‘all-party’ talks without the most important party. What does the ‘peace process’ mean for revolutionaries in the Six Counties?

Understand history: don’t repeat it

06 Jun 1996

“Invalidating” the membership of those deemed to be “breaching the democracy” of the SLP seems to be an NEC code word for an anti-communist witch hunt. There are important lessons from the 1920s

Hardly anyone could have failed to notice that the ‘stakeholding economy’ has become one of the buzz words of the 1990s - and even of the next millennium. Where has it come from and why does new Labour like it so much? Eddie Ford offers some explanations