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
One rule for members ...
15 Nov 2018
Tony Greenstein describes how his defence of Stan Keable, who was dismissed as a council housing officer under the ‘anti-Semitism’ purge, led to his own suspension
Going down the Brexit rabbit hole
08 Nov 2018
As the deadline looms, Theresa May is still wrestling with the Gordian knot of the Irish border question, writes Eddie Ford
Scottish Labour left: Democracy be damned
08 Nov 2018
Momentum’s counterpart in Scotland continues to thwart the wishes of its members, reports Chris Cassells
Bolsonaro: Brazil’s Trump or Brazil’s fascist ruler?
01 Nov 2018
Brazilian comrade Roberto della Santa gives us his assessment of a president who has declared that the military dictatorship ‘did not go far enough’
Huddersfield and the causes of crime
25 Oct 2018
There is more at stake than criminal justice in the latest grooming scandal, argues Paul Demarty
Tinker, tailor, soldier, Marxist
25 Oct 2018
Lawrence Parker takes issue with some of the interpretations of Michael Bettaney’s life and ideas that have appeared down the years
Italy's government provoking a clash with EU
25 Oct 2018
Against the background of attempts to form a new rightwing coalition across Europe, Toby Abse looks at the manoeuvrings of the rival Italian populists
People’s Vote: Establishment fights back
25 Oct 2018
Saturday's demonstration carried more than a whiff of a post-Brexit national government about it, writes Eddie Ford
No compliance with ‘hostile environment’ in NHS
25 Oct 2018
James Linney looks at the impact of Theresa May’s immigration policy on asylum-seekers
Review: 22 July, directed by Paul Greengrass
18 Oct 2018
Out on general release and Netflix
Brexit: more humiliation looms
18 Oct 2018
The present terms of debate on Brexit represent paralysis, argues Paul Demarty - in the government, and on the left
The National Left-Wing Movement: a lost legacy of the 1920s
18 Oct 2018
Lawrence Parker spoke about his book ‘Communists and Labour - The National Left-Wing Movement 1925-1929’ at Communist University 2018. This is an edited version of his talk
NCC ‘left’ slate farce ends in another Jon Lansman surrender
18 Oct 2018
The manoeuvres over joint candidates for Labour's disciplinary committee exposes the political vacuity of the existing left groupings, says Carla Roberts of Labour Party Marxists
Despicable participants in an ongoing witch-hunt
11 Oct 2018
The AWL social-imperialists have constituted themselves as allies of the Labour right, the mainstream media and the Israeli political establishment, writes Carla Roberts
Doing the job of the right
04 Oct 2018
Momentum in Scotland seems to have joined the witch-hunt against the left. Chris Cassells reports