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Hidden from history
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
The struggle continues
22 Mar 2018
After the surrender of Afrin, Esen Uslu says that the Turkish left and Kurdish movement must unite in opposition to Erdoğan
Walking the tightrope
22 Mar 2018
Jim Creegan looks at the quandary posed by Jacobin magazine and the new DSA
Too early to celebrate
01 Mar 2018
Iain McNicol gone, JLM calling the police, rumours about Ken Livingstone being reinstated … But it’s not all plain sailing for the left, warns Carla Roberts of Labour Party Marxists
Why revive a stinking corpse?
15 Feb 2018
Jack Conrad questions the worth of the ‘Labour4Clause4’ campaign being promoted by Socialist Appeal. Instead of fostering illusions in Fabian socialism, surely the task of Marxists is to win the Labour Party to Marxist socialism
When chickens come home
15 Feb 2018
Jeremy Newmark is in trouble, Ann Black has been dropped and AWL members have been declared ‘unwelcome’, reports Carla Roberts of Labour Party Marxists
Break with multimillionaires
15 Feb 2018
Peter Manson reports on the resignation of Jacob Zuma
Parallel dead ends
25 Jan 2018
Peter Manson reviews: Ronnie Kasrils, A simple man: Kasrils and the Zuma enigma Auckland Park 2017, pp283, £16.19 and Dale McKinley, South Africa’s corporatised liberation Auckland Park 2017, pp198, £14.95
Anti-Semites not welcome
14 Dec 2017
Tony Greenstein explains why Socialist Fight must be excluded from Labour Against the Witchhunt