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
Investigations drag on and on
21 Sep 2023
We all know who did it … and it was not Russia. Daniel Lazare looks at how the right is gaining traction from telling an evident truth
Staggering to next crisis
21 Sep 2023
Joe Biden’s growing incapacity, the likelihood of him being replaced mid-term by Kamala Harris if re‑elected, and a potential impeachment trial show that the abnormal is becoming the new normal. Paul Demarty looks at America
Forms of popular frontism
14 Sep 2023
Repeating calls for ‘no platforming’, calls to line up behind reactionary nationalists are, argues Mike Macnair, modern forms of madness. We favour free speech
National road to disaster
07 Sep 2023
Some 60,000 died, huge numbers were tortured and driven into exile, the parties of the left were banned and driven underground. Mike Macnair asks if any strategic lessons were learnt
Cold war adumbration
07 Sep 2023
Paul Flewers draws links with the current Ukraine conflict and the 1939-40 war between the Soviet Union and Finland. An anti-communist consensus formed then, while now we have the demonisation of Russia as the new evil empire
From chef to payback
31 Aug 2023
Eddie Ford gives his thoughts on the predictable death of Wagner’s public face and the likely culprit
The Soviet Union in history
31 Aug 2023
Is there progress? There seems to be, in nature and likewise in society. But, argues Jack Conrad, there is retrogression, mutual exhaustion and extinction too
Empty promises, real threats
10 Aug 2023
James Linney picks apart the NHS workforce plan and warns that Sir Keir’s Labour is committed to exactly the same agenda of privatisation and austerity
Gambler of Riyadh
10 Aug 2023
From sportswashing to megacities: what is MBS up to? Paul Demarty investigates the grandiose Vision 2030
Closer to the brink
10 Aug 2023
Donald Trump faces numerous legal challenges. Despite that he runs neck-and-neck with Joe Biden in the polls and could well win the next presidential election. Daniel Lazare gives his take on the pending constitutional crisis
Fuelling the politics of hate
10 Aug 2023
Once again the Tories are targeting migrants. Bibby Stockholm is meant to serve as a deterrent but, in fact, it’s a political weapon designed to prevent electoral meltdown, argues Kevin Bean
Clean air as a right
03 Aug 2023
Following the Uxbridge by-election, there has been a huge row over the extension of London’s Ulez scheme. Both Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer are standing up for the right to pollute. Eddie Ford stands up for the right to breathe clean, unpolluted air
Defending neutrality
03 Aug 2023
What are so-called socialists doing upholding the foreign policy of their ‘own’ bourgeois state? Anne McShane upholds the principles of international socialism
Not a workers’ state
03 Aug 2023
Did the Soviet Union remain a workers’ state from its heroic beginnings to its miserable end? Citing unchanged property relations is clearly unMarxist. What is decisive is production relations, argues Jack Conrad