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
From sanctions to slump?
03 Mar 2022
Michael Roberts looks at the dreadful consequences of the economic war being waged against Russia
Our sort of refugees?
03 Mar 2022
The Ukraine crisis sharply highlights the communist demand for open borders, writes Eddie Ford
A lesson in courage
03 Mar 2022
Anti-war protests in Russia give a glimmer of hope in a perilous situation, argues Paul Demarty
SUPPLEMENT: Many were the dead
24 Feb 2022
There are still those who play down or make light of the slaughter that took place in the Soviet Union under Stalin. Indeed organisations such as the CPB’s Young Communist League, George Galloway’s Workers Party and the CPGB (Marxist-Leninist) boast of a recent growth of recruits. Jack Conrad looks at the Soviet Union as a mode of mortality
Get out of Zionist ghetto
24 Feb 2022
Communists say national liberation is a task of the working class. Tony Greenstein takes issue with the left Zionism of Daniel Lazare
Main enemy is at home
17 Feb 2022
When it comes to Ukraine, writes Eddie Ford, what matters is not territorial integrity, but the danger of generalised war in Europe
Heading far-right
17 Feb 2022
In light of recent opinion polls, Toby Abse looks at the increasing danger of a neo-fascist government
Downfall of a company woman
17 Feb 2022
Cressida Dick’s departure will not lead to meaningful reform. Paul Demarty insists that the police force needs to be replaced by a well-drilled popular militia
Facts on the ground
10 Feb 2022
Eddie Ford argues that supporting Ukrainian self-determination, without taking into account Nato expansionism and the rights of the Russian minority, effectively means backing US imperialist interests
Behind Israeli apartheid
10 Feb 2022
Amnesty International’s moralistic condemnation is totally inadequate. As Moshé Machover has long argued, anachronistic settler-colonialism is the root of Israel’s racist apartheid. Only de-Zionisation can end it
The police and standing army too
10 Feb 2022
The SWP is bad, but the CPB is worse. Jack Conrad critiques the cowardly, tailist, opportunist left and stands by what used to be the uncontroversial call to establish a popular militia
Cosying up to Sir Keir
10 Feb 2022
Derek James reports on the split in the Socialist Campaign Group and the prospects for the ‘insider’ strategy
A rapidly sinking ship
10 Feb 2022
Clive Dean, of Labour Party Marxists, reports on an organisation in sharp decline, politically at sea and now lacking any strategic perspective
Destroyed by economygate?
10 Feb 2022
After the “longest wage squeeze in 200 years”, workers in Britain face an unprecedented fall in living standards. Michael Roberts rejects the Bank of England’s call to “moderate” wage rises
Austerity socialists win
03 Feb 2022
The victorious Socialist Party is putting all its hopes in the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Plan, says Michael Roberts, and has no intention of ending the country’s dependence on French and German capital. Not surprisingly the left coalition partners were hammered