Democracy & State > UK state
Referendum has nothing to offer
07 Jun 2012
Neither Scottish independence nor British unionism. Sarah McDonald looks at the launch of the "Yes" campaign
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
Sheer unadulterated murder
27 Jan 2022
Kevin Bean looks back to the events of Bloody Sunday and blames the killings not merely on individual members of the paratroop regiment but those sitting round the cabinet table in Downing Street
No change of line
20 Jan 2022
Mike Macnair responds to Daniel Lazare on BDS, the Israel Jewish working class and the necessity of opposing the witch-hunt
Operation Save Big Dog
20 Jan 2022
Is Boris Johnson toast? Eddie Ford comments on the partygate scandals and what it means for Sir Keir’s prospects
Three cheers for juries
13 Jan 2022
With attorney general Suella Braverman threatening to use extraordinary measures and a deafening silence coming from Labour’s front bench, Paul Demarty unhesitatingly welcomes the acquittal of the Colston Four
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
Fun and punishment
16 Dec 2021
Crazily, the government wants to intensify the cruel and unwinnable ‘war on drugs’. Eddie Ford, on the other hand, wants to call it off and legalise all drugs
Sheen comes off bluster and boosterism
16 Dec 2021
Derek James looks at the stunning Tory rebellion over Covid-19 safety measures and Labour’s lead in the polls
Victim of vengeful US mafia
16 Dec 2021
Julian Assange has been patiently, unrelentingly pursued. Mike Macnair highlights the complicity of the UK state and courts and the failure of the left
Beware of Nazi obsession
09 Dec 2021
We must oppose the fascist right, writes Eddie Ford. But we should also oppose state bans on organisations and ‘dangerous’ books
Thin end of the wedge
02 Dec 2021
We should oppose both the banning of Hamas and its leftwing apologists, writes Eddie Ford
Onslaught continues
25 Nov 2021
With the busiest winter period fast approaching, James Linney savages the government’s NHS ‘rescue plan’
From hell to even worse
25 Nov 2021
The so-called migrant crisis results from the imperialist system itself, argues Eddie Ford
In modern times
18 Nov 2021
Capitalism needs an ideological cover for its minority rule, but it also needs the constitutional rule of law. Socialism will be different. Mike Macnair spoke at the Online Communist Forum on November 14. This is an edited version of his talk
Ten days of change
18 Nov 2021
Following the Owen Paterson fiasco, Labour has leapt forward in the polls. Eddie Ford argues that this creates problems for the standard left narrative of a useless Keir Starmer