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
Cheap shots, great and small
20 Apr 2023
Controversy over Starmer’s attack ads shows up the increasing emptiness of bourgeois political debate, argues Paul Demarty
After the 49.3 nuclear option
13 Apr 2023
Increasing the retirement age to 64 has triggered huge protests. But, asks Paul Russell, with Macron in his final term, with cracks opening up in his party and with no natural successor, could Marine Le Pen finally make it into the Élysée?
End right to bear arms
13 Apr 2023
Spurred on by a whole series of mass killings and a fascist militia movement, Daniel Lazare calls for the repeal of the second amendment
Yet more lies
13 Apr 2023
The Tories are way behind in opinion polls and have therefore turned to culture war issues such as trans people and further curbing free speech. Mike Macnair eviscerates what passes for their arguments
Joe’s stopover visit
13 Apr 2023
Kevin Bean looks behind the hoo-ha of the 25th anniversary celebrations marking the signing of the Good Friday agreement
Partisan of reaction
06 Apr 2023
ML Miller reviews Ben Lewis, Oswald Spengler and the politics of decline Bergharn Books, 2022, pp238, £99
Mixing left and right
06 Apr 2023
Pollsters suggest that a new party set up by Sahra Wagenknecht would gain considerable support. But, asks Carla Roberts, where are the principled politics that are so desperately needed?
Government by swarm
06 Apr 2023
The former president faces 34 criminal charges. But Trumpism will grow stronger, whatever happens at his trial, argues Daniel Lazare. He is already clear favourite to run in the 2024 election
Drugs war idiocy
06 Apr 2023
Government policy and science part company yet again, writes Eddie Ford. Banning laughing gas for recreational purposes is, when it comes to health, sheer irrationality
Driving a dead man out
06 Apr 2023
Kevin Bean asks what lies behind Sir Keir and the NEC barring Jeremy Corbyn from standing as an official Labour candidate in Islington North
Looming defeat for Erdoğan
30 Mar 2023
Esen Uslu looks ahead to the coming election that pits the centre-right against the incumbent Islamist‑nationalist right. But what about the Kurds and the fractured left?
Speech is political
30 Mar 2023
Gaby Rubin reports on a storm in a very small teacup that was actually about what has always been a central principle for communists
Creeping civil war
30 Mar 2023
Georgia votes, classified papers and Stormy Daniels hush money. Daniel Lazare weighs up the chances of Donald Trump being paraded before the press in handcuffs
A poisoned chalice
30 Mar 2023
The SNP leadership election was a close-run thing. But what now for Humza Yousaf? Scott Evans looks at the diminishing options
Turning retreat into attack
23 Mar 2023
Why are so many trade union officials settling for below-inflation deals? Kevin Bean says unions must be democratised, and renewed strength used to beat Rishi Sunak’s latest anti-trade union legislation