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
Mirror images of terror
16 Sep 2021
Al Qa’eda wanted to provoke, the US neocons wanted to be provoked. The result has been a whole series of failed states, writes Eddie Ford
Limbering up for Brighton
16 Sep 2021
Derek James of Labour Party Marxists assesses the prospects for the left at the party’s annual conference
Accused of corruption
09 Sep 2021
It is bad enough that a ‘communist’ is a senior minister in a capitalist government, writes Peter Manson. But now things are even worse
Facing terminal defeat
09 Sep 2021
Yes, we must continue to fight in the Labour Party, writes Tony Greenstein, but what about those who have left or been expelled?
Artificial antiquity
09 Sep 2021
The creation of a new constitution is not only relevant to social transition. It is fundamental, argues Mike Macnair
The great game and geopolitics
09 Sep 2021
For all Xi’s rhetoric, the power struggle between the Communist Party of China and the country’s billionaires is far from decided, writes Paul Demarty
Reruns and failures
09 Sep 2021
Eddie Ford is unsurprised by America’s failure to get a smooth, South Africa-type transition of power
weapon forged in lies
09 Sep 2021
Derek James calls upon the left to show courage and refute every false accusation with the truth
Continue the fight
02 Sep 2021
As Keir Starmer’s regime prepares a hostile environment for socialists at Labour’s annual conference, Labour Against the Witchhunt resolves to step up its campaign. Stan Keable of Labour Party Marxists reports on the August 28 online membership meeting
Constitutions ancient and modern
02 Sep 2021
Bourgeois politicians, not least those in Britain and the US, make frankly risible claims about the constitutions of their respective countries. But, argues Mike Macnair in the first of two articles, Marxists are right to treat constitutions seriously
No longer a US problem
02 Sep 2021
Undoubtedly the region’s powers see opportunities with the Americans gone, but mostly they see dangers. Yassamine Mather looks at the prospects now that the Taliban are back in Kabul
Surviving against all the odds
12 Aug 2021
Why are the leaders of the Islamic Republic still looking so confident? The answer lies in the dismal failures of the global hegemon, argues Yassamine Mather
For your eyes only
12 Aug 2021
Paul Demarty assesses the dangers of Apple’s new surveillance measures against child sex abuse
Centrality of class independence
12 Aug 2021
Khomeini and the clergy completely outmanoeuvred the left. But it need not have been that way. In his second and concluding article on the role of oil workers in the 1979 revolution, Peyman Jafari stresses the complex nature of ideology and class consciousness
The Imam, the strikers and the black, black oil
05 Aug 2021
There are rich lessons for today in the experiences of the oil strikes of 1978. In the first of two articles Peyman Jafari charts the incredibly difficult struggle for organisation, hegemony and strategy