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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
Pulling the handbrake
12 Apr 2018
How revolutionary were the bourgeois revolutions? Neil Davidson spoke to Communist University about the lessons for today
After Formby’s election
22 Mar 2018
In light of the new incoming regime at party HQ, Carla Roberts of Labour Party Marxists reports on objections to Jon Lansman’s slate
Against a second referendum
08 Mar 2018
Some on the ‘left’ insist on tailing John Major and Tony Blair and their call for a second referendum. However, argues Jack Conrad, Marxists are right to distrust referendums as a method of political decision-making. We champion working class political independence and representative democracy
Arms and the man
01 Mar 2018
The question of gun control is not as straightforward as it may appear, writes Mike Macnair
Misrepresenting the people
15 Feb 2018
Paul Demarty wonders what is left out of the centenary celebrations for the Representation of the People Act
End the witch hunt
25 Jan 2018
Stan Keable, secretary of Labour Against the Witchhunt, reports on a successful lobby of Labour’s NEC
Trebles all round
23 Mar 2017
George Osborne’s appointment as Evening Standard editor is a textbook illustration of establishment corruption, argues Paul Demarty
All or nothing
09 Mar 2017
Erdoğan is going for bust in an attempt to cling onto power, writes Esen Uslu
Put not your trust in judges
16 Feb 2017
The fall of Michael Flynn involved not litigation, but threats of prosecution. But, if Trump is in fact brought down by the same scandal, it will not be leftwing litigation that does it, but the creation of a cross-party and inter-bureaucratic political coalition. And the result, if so, argues Howe Cheatem, will be president Pence and a new and rapid war drive
Contemptible document
12 Jan 2017
William Sarsfield of Labour Party Marxists looks at the new Lansman constitution
Reduced to a corpse?
12 Jan 2017
We knew it was coming, says Carla Roberts of Labour Party Marxists, but the sheer cynicism of Jon Lansman’s coup is staggering
A false narrative
15 Dec 2016
The current Momentum crisis has nothing to do with age, Trotsky or even the voting method to be used at conference, says Carla Roberts of Labour Party Marxists. It is about who controls Momentum and for what political ends
Not a private matter
24 Nov 2016
Instead of ducking the question, writes Eddie Ford, Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell should be fighting for republican democracy
Banned motion
17 Nov 2016
Motion banned by the Labour Party prefaced by complaint about the decision
A party, within a party, within ...
10 Nov 2016
Carla Roberts of Labour Party Marxists reports from the November 5 meeting of members of the Momentum national committee