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
Sources, streams and confluence
25 Aug 2016
Ben Lewis offers some thoughts on the origins of democratic centralism
Scorched earth litigation
04 Aug 2016
The right’s implausible and not so implausible legal threats have a purpose, writes Mike Macnair
Unique and historic opportunity
28 Jul 2016
There is no reason to be pessimistic about the struggle in the Labour Party. Peter Manson replies to Ian Birchall
Time for Corbyn to speak out
21 Jul 2016
What does the right do when it loses an election? It voids the result! Tony Greenstein reports on the suspension of the largest local Labour unit
Which side are you on?
21 Jul 2016
Why is the Morning Star’s Communist Party of Britain willing to be an ally of the Labour thought police, asks Dave Lynch
No safe spaces for traitors
21 Jul 2016
Jeremy Corbyn not only faces the nonentity, Owen Smith, but a legal challenge in the high court. Jim Grant of Labour Party Marxists says the left must toughen up
Don’t rely on the courts
14 Jul 2016
Mike Macnair considers the likelihood of a legal challenge to Labour’s NEC
Our strategy and tactics
16 Jun 2016
Jack Conrad looks at the referendum - and beyond that to the challenge of continental unity
A continent of the mind
19 May 2016
Jack Conrad shows that the European Union has been shaped not only by rival state powers, but by class politics too
Without monarchies or standing armies
12 May 2016
Jack Conrad explores Leon Trotsky’s strategic thinking
A highly serviceable political weapon
05 May 2016
Jack Conrad discusses Lenin and the ‘United States of Europe’ slogan
A missed opportunity
28 Apr 2016
Eddie Ford laments the republican speech Jeremy Corbyn did not make
Openness is a weapon
21 Apr 2016
The Weekly Worker’s commitment to open reporting on the affairs of the labour movement is not a fetish, but a political necessity, argues Paul Demarty
One, two, three revolutions
21 Apr 2016
Jack Conrad argues that democracy in the United States is corrupted and far from complete. The working class must finish what 1775 began
The in-out kabuki dance
14 Apr 2016
James Marshall of Labour Party Marxists says a passive boycott is not as good as an active boycott. But it is far better than participating in Stronger in Europe