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
New leader in waiting?
13 Sep 2018
Far from being a loose cannon, Boris Johnson’s every move is well thought out, writes Eddie Ford
Against referendums
13 Sep 2018
Despite the TUC vote in Manchester the left should reject referendums as a matter of principle. Jack Conrad puts the Marxist case for extreme democracy
Democracy, reselection and Omov
13 Sep 2018
Carla Roberts of Labour Party Marxists looks at some of the rule changes before this year’s Labour conference
Too modest by half
13 Sep 2018
John McDonnell’s ‘radical’ plans to overhaul company ownership forget about the state - Jim Grant argues that the state will not forget about John McDonnell
A racist state
13 Sep 2018
Labour’s adoption of the IHRA definition was a shameful betrayal of the Palestinians, writes Tony Greenstein
Bloodstained colours of Benetton
06 Sep 2018
Toby Abse looks at the politics underlying the collapse of the Genoa bridge
Left in disunity
06 Sep 2018
Dave Vincent looks at the strange battle for assistant general secretary
Grovelling will not save you
06 Sep 2018
No olive branch is big enough for the Labour right Paul Demarty wonders why the leadership keeps offering them
A man of contradictions
06 Sep 2018
Michael Bettaney (Malkin) February 13 1950-August 16 2018
NEC left capitulates
06 Sep 2018
But there might yet be light at the end of the tunnel, says Carla Roberts of Labour Party Marxists
The place of the Soviet Union in history
16 Aug 2018
The USSR was neither a new type of capitalism nor a 'degenerate' socialism, but a freakish new social system, argues Jack Conrad
Boris rolls the dice
16 Aug 2018
Boris Johnson’s burqa article is not a gaffe, but a political gamble, argues Paul Demarty
Past misdemeanours
16 Aug 2018
'A party with socialists in it: a history of the Labour left' by Simon Hannah (Pluto Press 2018, pp288, £12.99)
Nurtured by the state
16 Aug 2018
What lies behind the current crisis? Esen Uslu looks at the peculiar form of capitalist development in Turkey
The politics of offence
16 Aug 2018
Does it matter if Labour adopts all of the IHRA’s examples of ‘anti-Semitism’? Eddie Ford thinks so