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
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
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
Courage to tell the truth
06 May 2010
Yassamine Mather condemns the farce of the UK general election
From an instrument of deception
29 Apr 2010
Mike Macnair reviews the mainstream election campaign and the inadequate response of the left
Cleggmania and the return of the Lib-Lab pact?
22 Apr 2010
Eddie Ford wonders if we are about to see the fulfilment of the Blair project
A taxing dilemma
15 Apr 2010
The dispute over taxation shows the bourgeois establishment's poverty of ideas, argues James Turley
Accountable to their party
15 Apr 2010
All three mainstream parties promise voters the power to recall their MPs. Jim Moody looks at the details