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
Institutionalised child abuse
22 Jul 2010
Kenneth 'Revolution' Clarke has justified the official document authorising the brutal 'control' methods meted out to young offenders, notes Eddie Ford
Humble petition or militant action?
15 Jul 2010
There are two sides to Tolpuddle, argues Mike Macnair
We don't make the laws. We do a job
15 Jul 2010
Steve Gillan, new general secretary of the prison officers' union, the POA, wrote to the CPGB in response to Eddie Ford's article last week. Mark Fischer spoke to him
Responding to Ken Clarke's rehabilitation revolution
08 Jul 2010
Reform should not come at the expense of inmates or prison workers, argues Eddie Ford
State propaganda day
01 Jul 2010
Jim Gilbert looks at the establishment's 'non-political' mobilisation behind the Afghanistan war effort
Truth still hidden
24 Jun 2010
Anne Mc Shane examines the failings of the Saville inquiry into the Bloody Sunday killings
Voting - present and future
24 Jun 2010
The electoral system we demand under bourgeois rule is not connected to the forms of democratic decision-making we advocate for the future communist society, argues Moshé Machover
Universities or business?
10 Jun 2010
Farzad Houshyar looks at the destructive role of the market in higher education
Victims of British justice
03 Jun 2010
Eddie Ford thinks prisoners should be treated as human beings, and children as children
Electoral reform and communist strategy
27 May 2010
Nick Rogers discusses the democratic forms appropriate to the rule of the working class
The new bullshit
20 May 2010
David Cameron's 'new politics' are a degraded version of the old, argues James Turley
An enemy that should be treated seriously
20 May 2010
Many comrades insist that the Con-Lib Dem government is a coalition of 'profound weakness and division' that will be easy to beat and thus almost automatically lead to advances by the left. Eddie Ford believes that this approach is complacent and profoundly mistaken
Government of the people, by corruption, for the capitalists
13 May 2010
David Cameron's deal with Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats puts in place the 'strong government' demanded by the capitalist class. The working class will now be attacked with a vengeance, writes Mike Macnair
Courage to tell the truth
06 May 2010
Yassamine Mather condemns the farce of the UK general election
They all scapegoat migrants
06 May 2010
The reaction to Gordon Brown's attack on the 'bigoted' Gillian Duffy demonstrates the depth and breadth of the national chauvinist consensus, argues Eddie Ford