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
Reactionary hysteria
04 May 2006
The furore over "1,000 foreign criminals" raises some basic questions about rehabilitation, border controls and chauvinist discrimination, writes Eddie Ford
For a parliament with full powers
09 Mar 2006
The people of Wales must have the right to self-determination, argues Bob Davies, and calls for that right to be exercised in favour of unity within a federal republic of Wales, Scotland and England
Britain's drystone wall
02 Mar 2006
Can the British constitution be reformed? Not without mass political action by the working class, argues Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group
Marching towards self-organisation
09 Feb 2006
Emily Bransom reports on a new website set up by disgruntled soldiers
Fight for soldiers' rights
02 Feb 2006
Emily Bransom comments on demands by disgruntled British soldiers to form their own 'armed forces federation'
Scramble for centre ground
12 Jan 2006
Emily Bransom comments on the resignation of Charles Kennedy
The tip of the iceberg
05 Jan 2006
Liam O Ruairc comments on the outing of leading Sinn Fein member Denis Donaldson as a spy for the British secret service
Booze and moral panics
15 Dec 2005
How should communists view the new '24-hour-drinking'-legislation? Eddie Ford says that alcohol and drugs are class questions
A full life for the elderly
01 Dec 2005
Eddie Ford looks at the long awaited Pensions Commission report and puts forward the communist programme: for retirement at 60, for the tripling of pensions
Fundamental right to migrate
24 Nov 2005
Steven Brooks joined Michael Lavalette in forming a Respect group on Preston council when he left the Labour Party earlier this year. He voted in favour of the two motions calling for the abolition of immigration controls. Anne Mc Shane spoke to him after the debate
Tories stuck in a rut
06 Oct 2005
The Conservative Party is consumed in another leadership battle and, according to some of its leading supporters, is in danger of becoming a rightwing sect. Are they doomed? Can we afford to ignore them? Peter Prestwick takes a look
Class war and damned lies
05 Feb 2004
Dave Douglass (branch secretary Hatfield NUM) reviews: Janice Sutherland, 'Strike: when Britain went to war', Channel 4, Saturday January 24 Steven Condie, 'The miners' strike', BBC2, Tuesday January 27
Blair's stitch-up backfires
05 Feb 2004
The virtually complete exoneration of the Blair government of any wrongdoing in regard to the death of Dr David Kelly by Lord Hutton can only produce incredulity, says Ian Donovan
Power to suppress
15 Jan 2004
The government's new Civil Contingencies Bill is a monstrous encroachment on democratic rights, says Jem Jones
Back in Labour's fold
08 Jan 2004
Ken Livingstone's reinstatement into the Labour Party is at one level a significant defeat for Tony Blair, says Ian Donovan