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
Stay and fight and fight again
02 Dec 2021
A call that went unheeded: opening remarks by Graham Bash to LAW’s final all-members meeting
Merging into a cul-de-sac
02 Dec 2021
Derek James of Labour Party Marxists argues that this is no time to give up on the fight against the witch-hunt. Nor will the attempt to form an amorphous socialist movement get anywhere
Onslaught continues
25 Nov 2021
With the busiest winter period fast approaching, James Linney savages the government’s NHS ‘rescue plan’
Rittenhouse and white backlash
25 Nov 2021
The second amendment provides constitutional cover for a counterrevolutionary army of Boogaloos and freelance ultras, argues Daniel Lazare
Deserting the fight
25 Nov 2021
Plans to close Labour Against the Witchhunt and form yet another amorphous broad-left outfit are not only, by definition, unprincipled: they are bound to fail, writes Paul Demarty
From hell to even worse
25 Nov 2021
The so-called migrant crisis results from the imperialist system itself, argues Eddie Ford
Time for a rethink
18 Nov 2021
Derek James rounds on John McDonnell for his pusillanimity and the official left for its silence over the expulsion of Graham Bash
On the dark side
18 Nov 2021
Jack Conrad explores the commonalities and connections between greenism and the right and far right
In modern times
18 Nov 2021
Capitalism needs an ideological cover for its minority rule, but it also needs the constitutional rule of law. Socialism will be different. Mike Macnair spoke at the Online Communist Forum on November 14. This is an edited version of his talk
Ten days of change
18 Nov 2021
Following the Owen Paterson fiasco, Labour has leapt forward in the polls. Eddie Ford argues that this creates problems for the standard left narrative of a useless Keir Starmer
No saving graces
11 Nov 2021
Tony Greenstein reviews 'Labour’s anti-Semitism crisis: what the left got wrong and how to learn from it' by David Renton (Routledge, 2021, pp230, £19.99)
Government extortion racket
11 Nov 2021
Boris Johnson’s screeching U-turn over Owen Paterson brilliantly highlighted the endemic corruption in the government party, writes Eddie Ford
Bitter fruit of imperialism
04 Nov 2021
Islamist jihadism is a modern, not an ancient, phenomenon. Yassamine Mather looks at causes, social roots and terrible consequences
The proletarian sovereign
04 Nov 2021
Does the USA have a supreme source of authority? Daniel Lazare takes issue with Mike Macnair
Give a little and take a lot
04 Nov 2021
Though there was nothing, not a thing, on the environment. Rishi Sunak’s ‘big state, high tax’ budget had a distinctly populist feel, writes Eddie Ford