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Politics of right-moving centre
20 Nov 2025
Rogier Specht of the Communistisch Platform assesses the recent general election and the first attempts to form a new coalition government. Unfortunately what passes for the ‘left’ is pro-Nato and pro-war. Principled Marxists have a duty to get their act together
Unity for what?
06 Nov 2025
Catherine Connolly’s 63.4% election landslide is undoubtedly a symbolic blow against the mainstream establishment and a victory for the coalition of socialist, centre-left parties and progressives who ran her campaign. However, Anne McShane questions the goal of a coalition government being pursued by People Before Profit
What’s in a name?
13 Mar 2025
Toby Abse reports on Rifondazione Comunista’s desperate attempts to re-enter parliament and the illusions it is fostering in the Bric countries as a source of peace
Four times in four years
05 Dec 2024
Another austerity budget, another symbolic general strike. Toby Abse reports on stagnant living standards and how the centre-left is moving towards the trade union bureaucracy
Named after the leaderene
26 Oct 2023
Sahra Wagenknecht is that rarest of rare things - a popular politician - and she is set on a split with Die Linke and going her own way. Carla Roberts takes a look at her BSW project
Chasing after cabinet seats
27 Apr 2023
Sinn Féin looks set to become the biggest party after the next general election. Anne McShane lambasts its PBP would-be coalition partner
Social-imperialism is betrayal
02 Feb 2023
Joint statement
No unity with scabs
15 Dec 2022
There need to be clear lines of demarcation. James Harvey reports on CPGB criticisms of the sort of unity being pursued by comrades in the Netherlands
Principle not diplomacy
24 Nov 2022
Mike Macnair explores the Mandelite ‘Fourth International’ and its commitment to fudge, concealing differences and upholding bland generalities in unity projects
Open polemics cauterise
17 Nov 2022
James Harvey reports on plans, problems and the need to openly thrash out principled differences
Extreme opposition, not partners
20 Oct 2022
Treacherous calls for a Sinn Féin-led ‘left government’ should be ditched once and for all, urges Anne McShane
Uniting a motley band
13 Oct 2022
Andries Stroper reports on the first conference of a new socialist ‘party-in-formation’ and its prospects
Not time to party … yet
15 Sep 2022
Emil Jacobs of Communist Platform suggests that more preparation time is needed before there can be worthwhile unity. Certainly uniting around the call for arming Ukraine would be disastrous
Opting for electoral suicide
08 Sep 2022
Toby Abse surveys the mosaic of parliamentary centre-left and centre-right parties, factions and breakaways in the run-up to what looks likely to be a far-right landslide
Where next for Nupes?
08 Sep 2022
René Gimpel reports on the enthusiasm and success brought about by uniting the left, but warns of the dangers and pitfalls that come with a flawed programme