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
Poor, huddled and desperate
13 Aug 2020
The Tory Party and sections of the press are whipping up a panic about ‘invading’ migrants, writes Eddie Ford
Destroyed by fake ‘anti-Semitism’
30 Jul 2020
The pro-Starmer right has succeeded in bringing down Brighton and Hove’s Labour administration, writes Tony Greenstein
Palestine, payments and purges
30 Jul 2020
Starmer is out to prove that Labour can be relied upon as a safe alternative party of government, argues David Shearer of Labour Party Marxists
On a wing and a prayer
23 Jul 2020
Like you, Eddie Ford is sceptical about things ‘returning to normal’ by Christmas
Woman bites dog
23 Jul 2020
What was that about ‘western values’? Paul Demarty looks at the Shamima Begum case
Stalin as historian
23 Jul 2020
David Brandenberger has painstakingly studied the writing and editing of the famous Short course. Khrushchev’s account of Stalin simply wanting to feed his own personality cult is badly misleading
What will remain of democracy?
23 Jul 2020
With Trump now employing paramilitary forces, writes Daniel Lazare, the signs are not good
A contradictory formation
16 Jul 2020
Bob Davies of Labour Party Marxists regrets that some ‘revolutionaries’ support the careers of career politicians and oppose republican and democratic demands
Establishment champion
09 Jul 2020
Mark Kosman looks at Keir Starmer’s transition from ‘Marxist’ to ‘cop in an expensive suit’
An ever timely demand
09 Jul 2020
Jack Conrad critiques the opportunist left and calls for the abolition of the police and all standing armies
Problems of online debates
09 Jul 2020
Clive Dean of Labour Party Marxists reports on last weekend’s conference
Holding the fort
02 Jul 2020
At last a new government has been formed. James Harvey looks at the whys and wherefores
Oppose calls for reinstatement
02 Jul 2020
We must defend Rebecca Long-Bailey against false charges that she helped spread an ‘anti-Semitic conspiracy theory’, writes David Shearer of Labour Party Marxists. But why was a so-called ‘socialist’ willing to sit in Starmer’s shadow cabinet?
Garbage in, garbage out
25 Jun 2020
Failure of the NHS tracing app is characteristic of the government’s pandemic response, argues Paul Demarty
What might have been
25 Jun 2020
Nathaniel Flakin spoke to the June 14 Online Communist Forum about Martin Monath, an inspiring example of revolutionary internationalism. As a Jewish Berliner, living in occupied France, he attempted to recruit German soldiers to fight against Nazism