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
Drugs war idiocy
06 Apr 2023
Government policy and science part company yet again, writes Eddie Ford. Banning laughing gas for recreational purposes is, when it comes to health, sheer irrationality
Speech is political
30 Mar 2023
Gaby Rubin reports on a storm in a very small teacup that was actually about what has always been a central principle for communists
Creeping civil war
30 Mar 2023
Georgia votes, classified papers and Stormy Daniels hush money. Daniel Lazare weighs up the chances of Donald Trump being paraded before the press in handcuffs
A poisoned chalice
30 Mar 2023
The SNP leadership election was a close-run thing. But what now for Humza Yousaf? Scott Evans looks at the diminishing options
General election now?
10 Nov 2022
Much of the left is tailing Sir Keir and the liberal media in promoting the poison of presidentialism. Kevin Bean presents the republican alternative
God save the king, the Starmer regime
22 Sep 2022
James Harvey of Labour Party Marxists calls for rebellion against the blue Labour monarchism being foisted on the Liverpool conference
It’s the politics, stupid
15 Sep 2022
The left needs to break with economism and take the monarchy and high politics seriously. We should be fighting for a federal republic and extreme democracy, argues James Harvey
Behind the death mask
15 Sep 2022
Paul Demarty goes in search of Elizabeth Windsor’s personality and finds very little apart from cynicism, unpleasantness and self-entitlement
Learn from Oliver Cromwell
15 Sep 2022
With Charles III, no fundamental change to the monarchy will be delivered from above, writes Eddie Ford. The institution serves capitalism wonderfully as part of its system of checks and balances against democracy
Jubilee versus democracy
09 Jun 2022
Much of the left fails to take the monarchy seriously. But Eddie Ford reminds the SWP of the shameful moment when it voted against republicanism in Respect so as not to alienate royalists
Pissing on the parade
19 May 2022
Paul Drummond explores, celebrates and urges on the hissing, the booing, the barracking, the loathing of HRH William Windsor and all he stands for by Liverpool fans
The police and standing army too
10 Feb 2022
The SWP is bad, but the CPB is worse. Jack Conrad critiques the cowardly, tailist, opportunist left and stands by what used to be the uncontroversial call to establish a popular militia
Spin, traps and rights
27 Jan 2022
Left responses to Raab’s proposals - in so far as they exist - have simply been to defend the 1998 Human Rights Act and the European Convention. A bad idea. Mike Macnair proposes a real Bill of Rights instead
Creating a carnival of reaction
06 Jan 2022
James Harvey looks at how and why the island of Ireland was partitioned one hundred years ago
Tudor, Whig or what?
07 Oct 2021
No ultimate source of sovereignty: Daniel Lazare takes issue with Mike Macnair on the nature of the US constitution