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
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer man
15 Feb 2018
Jeremy Newmark, the ‘ideal representative’ of the Jewish Labour Movement, stands accused of all manner of wrongdoing. Tony Greenstein calls on the Labour Party to act
Why revive a stinking corpse?
15 Feb 2018
Jack Conrad questions the worth of the ‘Labour4Clause4’ campaign being promoted by Socialist Appeal. Instead of fostering illusions in Fabian socialism, surely the task of Marxists is to win the Labour Party to Marxist socialism
When chickens come home
15 Feb 2018
Jeremy Newmark is in trouble, Ann Black has been dropped and AWL members have been declared ‘unwelcome’, reports Carla Roberts of Labour Party Marxists
Italy: Democratic Party left up in arms
08 Feb 2018
Matteo Renzi’s purge is unlikely to halt his party’s decline, argues Toby Abse
Zuma on the brink
08 Feb 2018
Cyril Ramaphosa now looks set to become president a year earlier than scheduled, writes Peter Manson
21st century global reality
08 Feb 2018
Eddie Ford looks at the growing Tory infighting over Brexit
Criticism is not abuse
08 Feb 2018
Carla Roberts takes issue with proposals to outlaw 'abuse' of MPs
NEC readmits leftwingers
08 Feb 2018
But hopes that this might mark the beginning of the end of the witch-hunt could be premature, warns Carla Roberts
Corbynmania and the SPD
01 Feb 2018
Emma Rees and other Momentum employees have been sent to Berlin to help the German youth wing oppose the latest grand coalition, writes Susanne Holstein
Counting the costs
01 Feb 2018
For all their anti-western slogans, there is nothing ‘radical’ in any of the Tehran regime factions, writes Yassamine Mather
Being black is their only crime
01 Feb 2018
Thousands of Israelis are attempting to stop the deportation of African refugees, reports Tony Greenstein
Are you listening, Theresa?
01 Feb 2018
Eddie Ford looks at the latest blue-on-blue manoeuvrings and jockeying for power
End the witch hunt
25 Jan 2018
Stan Keable, secretary of Labour Against the Witchhunt, reports on a successful lobby of Labour’s NEC
Parallel dead ends
25 Jan 2018
Peter Manson reviews: Ronnie Kasrils, A simple man: Kasrils and the Zuma enigma Auckland Park 2017, pp283, £16.19 and Dale McKinley, South Africa’s corporatised liberation Auckland Park 2017, pp198, £14.95
Hard, soft or no Brexit?
25 Jan 2018
The working class needs a strategy that tails neither big capital nor backward-looking politicians, argues Jack Conrad