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
Victim of vengeful US mafia
16 Dec 2021
Julian Assange has been patiently, unrelentingly pursued. Mike Macnair highlights the complicity of the UK state and courts and the failure of the left
Not a liquidation?
09 Dec 2021
Abandoning any pretence of class politics, Tony Greenstein defends what he calls the ‘merger’ of LAW and LIEN and advocates yet another ‘transitional’ halfway-house broad front
Shuffling further to right
09 Dec 2021
Derek James assesses Sir Keir’s new shadow cabinet, the cowardice of the official left and the danger of both Corbyn and McDonnell being expelled
Beware of Nazi obsession
09 Dec 2021
We must oppose the fascist right, writes Eddie Ford. But we should also oppose state bans on organisations and ‘dangerous’ books
Thin end of the wedge
02 Dec 2021
We should oppose both the banning of Hamas and its leftwing apologists, writes Eddie Ford
A Stalinist school of development?
02 Dec 2021
Paul Flewers looks back at the flawed but insightful theory of state collectivism presented by John Fantham and Moshé Machover in the late 1970s
Our gun rights too
02 Dec 2021
Despite Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal, Paul Demarty raises three cheers for the US constitution's second amendment
Why we resigned
02 Dec 2021
Not unity but division: joint statement by four former members of LAW’s steering committee
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