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Europe's mutual suicide pact
19 Jan 2012
Austerity plans pursued by European governments are proving to be self-defeating, writes Eddie Ford
Right-populist threat increases
31 May 2018
As stock exchanges are rattled and EU politicians worry over the survival of the euro, Toby Abse warns the left against treating our enemy’s enemy as our friend
Beyond the border quandary
31 May 2018
Brexit is in the interest of neither British nor Irish capital, writes James Harvey
The rise of a Mini-Me Hitler
03 May 2018
Thomas Klikauer looks at the fruitcakes, loonies and out-and-out racists who inhabit the völkische wing of the AfD
Democracy, not referendums
19 Apr 2018
Jack Conrad advocates working class representatives, working class party politics and the working class programme of extreme democracy
No more ‘broad, sunlit uplands’
29 Mar 2018
Eddie Ford agrees with Jacob Rees-Mogg that the final Brexit deal will be a ‘national humiliation’ like Suez 1956
Triumph of right populism
15 Mar 2018
Election marks the worst ever performance of the post-World War II left, writes Toby Abse
Against a second referendum
08 Mar 2018
Some on the ‘left’ insist on tailing John Major and Tony Blair and their call for a second referendum. However, argues Jack Conrad, Marxists are right to distrust referendums as a method of political decision-making. We champion working class political independence and representative democracy
Softest form of hard Brexit
08 Mar 2018
Theresa May’s ‘hard facts’ will only bring a temporary cessation of war between the rival Tory factions, writes Eddie Ford
Anti-fascists on the march
01 Mar 2018
As the far right becomes more emboldened, Toby Abse reports on the disgraceful attempt of the PD leadership to ban leftwing protests
Theresa May’s à la carte menu
01 Mar 2018
Three-course dinner or a packet of crisps? Eddie Ford looks at the latest Brexit developments
Further into farce
22 Feb 2018
How much longer can Ukip limp on, wonders Paul Demarty?
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
21st century global reality
08 Feb 2018
Eddie Ford looks at the growing Tory infighting over Brexit
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
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