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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
Banking on cliff edges is a dangerous strategy
21 Feb 2019
With less than a week to go before the next Brexit vote, Theresa May has brought nothing meaningful back from Brussels. So what next? asks Eddie Ford
Recession and xenophobia
21 Feb 2019
Toby Abse reports on the latest shenanigans of the right-populist government - and the stirrings of organised working class opposition
Right to the cliff edge
14 Feb 2019
Theresa May tells MPs to ‘hold their nerve’, writes Eddie Ford, but the EU will not blink. So will she risk a no-deal?
Return of the unicorns
08 Feb 2019
As time runs out, Theresa May is still trying to square the Brexit circle, writes Eddie Ford
Brexit in the balance
31 Jan 2019
The Commons vote does not change the bigger picture, notes Paul Demarty
Will the euro survive?
24 Jan 2019
Michael Roberts looks back at the last 20 years and predicts a rocky future
The enigmatic gilets-jaunes
17 Jan 2019
How should Marxists respond to the gilets jaunes? Mike Macnair looks at the likely winners and losers
May's deal is dead as a dodo
17 Jan 2019
Paul Demarty asks what comes next after the crushing rejection of May’s Brexit deal by the Commons
Thinking the unthinkable
10 Jan 2019
With time running out, Theresa May is surely approaching the end game, writes Eddie Ford
Limping towards the cliff-edge
20 Dec 2018
The government holds together for now - but the problems of Brexit will prove inescapable, reckons Paul Demarty
Slaughtering sheep and unicorns
20 Dec 2018
Calls for a ‘people’s vote’ and a ‘coalition of reasonable minds’ are demands for a national government, writes Eddie Ford
May survives ... for the moment
13 Dec 2018
She might have won a vote of confidence, but the UK faces a full-blown constitutional crisis, reckons Paul Demarty
Left tails of liberal bourgeoisie
29 Nov 2018
He who pays the AEIP piper calls the AEIP tune, says Jack Conrad
New stage of Brexit politics
29 Nov 2018
In or out of the EU, argues Mike Macnair, we need a united workers’ movement on a European scale
Free-trade tailism
22 Nov 2018
The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty has enlisted a clipped version of Marx and Engels to serve its political agenda. In the first of two articles Mike Macnair looks at the claims of free trade and protectionism