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Hidden from history
Next on Trump’s list
08 Feb 2019
Events in Venezuela amount to an imperialist coup attempt - but the left still draws no lessons from the failures of the ‘Bolivarian revolution’. Paul Demarty investigates
Competition and cooperation
06 Dec 2018
Review of 'Elinor Ostrom’s rules for radicals' by Derek Wall, Pluto Press, 2017, pp160, £16.99
Dashed hopes
11 Oct 2018
Despite retreats and prevarication, writes Peter Manson, the objective conditions for working class advance remain
Let it rot in the grave
04 Oct 2018
Labour should not revive the old Fabian clause four, says Jack Conrad. Instead a new, genuinely socialist version is needed
Where next for the SACP?
20 Sep 2018
As the ANC continues to lose support, Peter Manson looks at the dilemmas of the ‘official communists’
Grappling with the party question
13 Sep 2018
Mike Macnair looks at two very different documents from two very different organisations
A failure of definition
09 Aug 2018
Jack Conrad argues that the left is crippled by its fixation on economic struggles and the downplaying of high politics
Sowing dragon's teeth
26 Jul 2018
Is Leon Trotsky’s Transitional programme the last word when it comes to the Marxist programme? Or does it represent regression in Marxist terms? Jack Conrad argues against the economism of Trotskyism
Irrational optimism
12 Jul 2018
Mike Macnair responds to Rex Dunn’s arguments about Trotskyism and May 1968
Oppose siren calls
05 Jul 2018
Some on the ‘left’ insist on running with People’s Vote and its call for a second EU referendum. Once again Jack Conrad argues that Marxists ought to condemn referendums. We favour representative democracy and working class political independence
Cold war nostalgia
17 May 2018
Mike Macnair looks at the AWL’s version of ‘socialism’ and finds it wanting
Wonderful yet underperformed
10 May 2018
Jack Conrad looks back at the May-June events that rocked France 50 years ago
Pulling the handbrake
12 Apr 2018
How revolutionary were the bourgeois revolutions? Neil Davidson spoke to Communist University about the lessons for today
Supplement: Biography of a sister slogan
05 Apr 2018
The demand for the ‘publication of the secret treaties’, which represented a key turning point in support for the Bolsheviks, predated the April theses by several weeks, writes Lars T Lih. This is the seventh and concluding part of the series, ‘All power to the soviets!’
In enemy hands
05 Apr 2018
The barrage of lies about Labour’s anti-Semitism ‘problem’ shows we badly need an alternative labour movement media, argues Paul Demarty