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Referendum has nothing to offer
07 Jun 2012
Neither Scottish independence nor British unionism. Sarah McDonald looks at the launch of the "Yes" campaign
The prison officers dilemma
13 Sep 2007
Cameron Richards takes issue with Jim Moody's article 'The turn of the screws' (September 6) and the position of the CPGB leadership
The turn of the screws
06 Sep 2007
Jim Moody comments on last week's strike of the Prison Officers' Association and asks: Are prison officers state agents or workers in uniform?
Head to head
09 Aug 2007
As we go to press, voting is about to begin in the August 9 by-election for Shadwell ward in the east London borough of Tower Hamlets. The election campaign, triggered by the bitter resignation of Shamim Chowdhury - from Respect as well as from the council - saw Harun Miah go head to head with former Labour council leader Michael Keith. Huw Bynon reports
Compensation, not insurance
02 Aug 2007
Eddie Ford comments on the floods: Communists argue that in the event of a disaster or major accident any redress made should be based on a system of need, not individualised insurance schemes. And logically this requires that a universal compensation system be set up
Conservative Lite
26 Jul 2007
Only 18 months in the job and Cameron's position as Conservative Party leader is being questioned. Jim Moody comments
Reinforcing misery
19 Jul 2007
Carey Davies reports on the Conservative 'remedies' for a 'broken society'
The myth of 'One Wales'
19 Jul 2007
Cameron Richards looks at 'the most progressive government programme in Britain for 30 years'
Complacent indifference
12 Jul 2007
Peter Manson on the session 'Scotland - on the road to independence?'
Good theorist fallen amongst economists
12 Jul 2007
Mark Fischer reports on the session with Neil Davidson
Despair and the fantastic
12 Jul 2007
The London bomb attacks signal the failure of the left, says Eddie Ford
Dublin 1916 and the 'blood sacrifice'
05 Jul 2007
Philip Ferguson gives his view on some common criticisms of James Connolly
Plaid Cymru's left collapses
05 Jul 2007
Last week Plaid Cymru's left AMs voted to support the 'One Wales' document that now seems likely to form the basis of a Labour-Plaid coalition government in the Welsh assembly over the next four years. Bob Davies reports
The Windsor boy
25 May 2007
Evidently the chief of the general staff feels that prince Harry's life is worth so much more than the life of every other soldier that he cannot be allowed to risk it in the hell-hole that the US and UK forces have made of Iraq. Jim Moody comments
Plaid Cymru divides over Tory coalition
25 May 2007
Cameron Richards reports on the political crisis in Wales
Lib Dems re-ignite Plaid rebellion
11 May 2007
Bob Davies on the latest twists and turns in Welsh politics