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
Are Renzi’s days numbered?
01 Dec 2016
The December 4 constitutional referendum could be one poll where the predictions turn out to be correct, writes Toby Abse
Revenge of white working class
01 Dec 2016
Trump’s victory shows that the establishment has lost control over the election process. Jim Creegan draws up a balance sheet of the class forces
Not a private matter
24 Nov 2016
Instead of ducking the question, writes Eddie Ford, Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell should be fighting for republican democracy
Defend founding principles
24 Nov 2016
Ensure the enthusiasm for Corbyn is not wasted, urges medical archaeologist Robert Arnott
New era taking shape
24 Nov 2016
Donald Trump’s early cabinet nominations are in line with his conspiratorial rightism. Paul Demarty assesses the reaction
Iran deal dead and buried
24 Nov 2016
How will the Trump presidency impact on the Middle East? Yassamine Mather looks at the possibilities
A welcome for Trump and Bannon
24 Nov 2016
Anti-Semitism has never been a problem for Zionism, observes Tony Greenstein
Confused reformism
24 Nov 2016
Hillel Ticktin lambasts the shadow chancellor’s economic timidity
Different next time
17 Nov 2016
Donald Trump’s victory is a blow for the nationalist right - but hardly an irreversible one, argues Paul Demarty
What sort of populism?
17 Nov 2016
Toby Abse reviews: Filippo Tronconi (ed) 'Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement: organisation, communication and ideology', Ashgate Publishing, 2015, pp250, £67.99
A comedy of errors
17 Nov 2016
Attempts to undertand the history of the CPGB and its leadership of the National Left Wing Movement in the 1920s are far from satisfactory, writes Lawrence Parker
Crisis of establishment
17 Nov 2016
All you can say with certainty about the Donald Trump presidency, writes Eddie Ford, is ‘Expect the unexpected’
Silence is as good as compliance
17 Nov 2016
Iain McNicol has banned discussion of Zionism, anti-Semitism and the internal witch-hunt, reports Tony Greenstein
Banned motion
17 Nov 2016
Motion banned by the Labour Party prefaced by complaint about the decision
A richly deserved defeat
10 Nov 2016
Trump’s victory is an indictment of shallow American liberalism, and it is time for the left to detach itself from it, argues Paul Demarty