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
Misleading parliament should matter
15 Jun 2023
Mike Macnair discusses Boris Johnson’s lies, his resignation, his honours list and his media manipulation
Never same again
15 Jun 2023
Charging Donald Trump has had far-right Republicans reaching for their guns. Will he go down? Daniel Lazare is sure: maybe yes, maybe no
Biden dodges a bullet
08 Jun 2023
While an immediate financial abyss has been avoided, Daniel Lazare sees all the tell-tale signs of long‑term imperial decline
Gloomy shades of death
08 Jun 2023
Attended by a maximum of just 19 members, the online AGM testified to complete strategic failure. Kevin Bean reads the last rites
Defending the right to oppress
01 Jun 2023
Ian Spencer gives his take on the trial of the Shenstone Six after their militant protest against Elbit Systems
Meloni’s antecedents
01 Jun 2023
Toby Abse reviews David Broder Mussolini’s grandchildren: fascism in contemporary Italy Pluto Press 2023, pp240, £17.99
Confessions of a rat
01 Jun 2023
Yassamine Mather gives her judgement on an extraordinary talk and subsequent BBC interview with the former governor of the notorious Evin prison
J6ers await their pardon
01 Jun 2023
Stewart Rhodes, leader of the Oath Keepers, has been handed a 18-year sentence. Daniel Lazare gives notice that the ultra-right combatants of Trump’s January 6 self-coup attempt could soon be free
Fallen Phil and Teflon Don
01 Jun 2023
With the Stormy Daniels indictment, the E Jean Carroll civil verdict and the whole eight-year-old campaign of lawfare against Trump, Paul Demarty asks why it makes no difference to his political prospects. Meanwhile, here in Britain, we have Phillip Schofield
Sir Humphreys vs Tory right
01 Jun 2023
Some civil service mandarins have a different political agenda from their Tory ministers. Indeed, Eddie Ford suspects that the Labour shadow cabinet is far more to their liking
Small choice between rotten apples
01 Jun 2023
Though Erdoğan deserved to lose, the opposition did not deserve to win. Esen Uslu makes a call for the left to unite on a principled basis
Same old road
25 May 2023
Do not expect any radical shift, particularly on foreign policy, under a Sinn Féin-led government, warns Anne McShane
14th amendment threat
25 May 2023
The debt-ceiling crisis is the direct result of the antiquated constitution, argues Daniel Lazare, but ‘emergency measures’ would be a gift for Trump
Notes on the war
25 May 2023
Yevgeny Prigozhin maintains that every centimetre of Bakhmut has been taken, but Ukraine’s much heralded spring offensive is still to come. Jack Conrad looks at the military and political situation
Demography is not destiny
25 May 2023
Sinn Féin is now the biggest party in local government. But, asks Kevin Bean, what does this mean for the prospects of some kind of national reunification?