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
Coming home to roost
26 Mar 2020
Richard Galen describes how NHS workers are doing their best to cope following years of Tory cuts.
End of the line
26 Mar 2020
Covid-19 has done away with Britain’s rail franchising system. Paul Demarty, for one, is not going to miss it.
Fourth emergency service
26 Mar 2020
Eddie Ford says postal workers must not allow management to use the pandemic crisis as an excuse to launch further attacks on the union.
Rise to the challenge
26 Mar 2020
Sinn Féin might be about to join a grand coalition, but the left should not join Sinn Féin, argues Anne McShane.
Nationalism and COVID-19
12 Mar 2020
Despite the rapid spread of coronavirus, notes Toby Abse, the response of the Italian government compares favourably to Boris Johnson’s.
Clause wars
12 Mar 2020
James Marshall of Labour Party Marxists says RLB’s clause four owes more to Tony Blair than Sidney Webb. Either way, both amount to bullshit. What we need is a clause four that marks a real political shift.
Biggest possible majority needed
06 Mar 2020
Eddie Ford argues that strike action will pit postal workers not only against Royal Mail bosses, but against a union-smashing government too. Mass solidarity is vital if victory is to be won.
Illusions of the left
29 Feb 2020
There should be no talk of participation in a bourgeois government, argues James Harvey.
Use the ballot
29 Feb 2020
David Shearer of Labour Party Marxists urges a tactical vote for Rebecca Long-Bailey - despite her monarchism, vague politics and accommodation with the right.
Cruel and unusual punishment
13 Feb 2020
Boris Johnson is continuing the anti-migrant ‘hostile environment’ policy of his predecessors, writes Eddie Ford.
Sinn Féin’s success, left’s collapse
13 Feb 2020
Anne McShane assesses the February 8 election and the rush by the Trotskyist ‘left’ to enter a bourgeois government.
Resurgent right
13 Feb 2020
David Shearer of Labour Party Marxists looks at the continuation of the anti-left witch-hunt
Here we go again
09 Feb 2020
Red lines, cliff edges, friction, no deal, hard Brexit … Eddie Ford gets a sense of déjà vu.
On target for disaster
09 Feb 2020
James Linney looks at the ever growing waiting times.
In the balance
31 Jan 2020
James Harvey looks at the contenders for next month’s Irish general election and the possible coalitions