Democracy & State > Republican democracy
Republicanism and the form of working class rule
31 May 2012
As the constitutional monarchy state proclaims its commitment to privilege and the status quo, Michael Copestake looks back to a rather different tradition
Republicans debate way forward
21 Jan 1999
Abolish the second chamber
10 Dec 1998
While Blair pushes for a ‘modernised’ House of Lords, the working class must go further and champion the fullest democracy
Lords a-leaping
15 Oct 1998
Prozac elections
24 Sep 1998
As Australia goes to the polls, central questions are ignored
CPGB shitespeak
30 Jul 1998
Mark Osborn of the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty replies to Don Preston’s criticisms (Weekly Worker July 16)
Trapped in the past
30 Jul 1998
Around the left
Abolish the House of Lords
30 Jul 1998
The rebellion in the House of Lords against a government amendment to equalise the age of consent for gays and heterosexuals demonstrates why the working class must become the champion of democracy
For a centralised republic
18 Jun 1998
Reaction raises its ugly head in Australia
Workers’ unity, not national socialism
18 Jun 1998
Peter Taaffe and Scottish Militant Labour are on the verge of divorce. But this is no private affair. Shamefully in the name of defending Marxism both sides want to break up the historically constituted working class in Britain along nationalist lines
Irish consensus
11 Jun 1998
Prisoners out but RUC stays
On the Sidelines
19 Feb 1998
The Australian left has given the ruling class a free run in the constitutional debate
Party notes
19 Feb 1998
Battle looms
Openness and organisation
12 Feb 1998
The January 31 aggregate reunited the ranks of CPGB members
Bloody Sunday hypocrisy
05 Feb 1998
Blair’s announcement of a new judicial enquiry has already provoked tensions within the British ruling class
A republican party of the working class
15 Jan 1998
Jan Berryman analyses developments in the SLP from a republican-communist angle