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Gestures at top, gestures at bottom
08 Dec 2016
Donald Trump is lurching between conciliation and wild provocations, writes Paul Demarty
Grappling with new situation
08 Dec 2016
Peter Manson reports on the December 4 meeting of members of the CPGB and Labour Party Marxists
An icon, but not a model
01 Dec 2016
Revolutionary, dictator - or both? Paul Demarty remembers Fidel Castro
Revenge of white working class
01 Dec 2016
Trump’s victory shows that the establishment has lost control over the election process. Jim Creegan draws up a balance sheet of the class forces
New era taking shape
24 Nov 2016
Donald Trump’s early cabinet nominations are in line with his conspiratorial rightism. Paul Demarty assesses the reaction
Different next time
17 Nov 2016
Donald Trump’s victory is a blow for the nationalist right - but hardly an irreversible one, argues Paul Demarty
Crisis of establishment
17 Nov 2016
All you can say with certainty about the Donald Trump presidency, writes Eddie Ford, is ‘Expect the unexpected’
A richly deserved defeat
10 Nov 2016
Trump’s victory is an indictment of shallow American liberalism, and it is time for the left to detach itself from it, argues Paul Demarty
Sow the wind, reap the windbag
03 Nov 2016
Donald Trump is a symptom of the sickness of American politics - but the likes of Hillary Clinton are the cause, argues Paul Demarty
Two Noam Chomskys
01 Sep 2016
Chris Knight discusses his new book, where he contrasts Chomsky, the principled political activist, with Chomsky, the military researcher
Different plot twists, same ending
25 Aug 2016
Jim Creegan shows that there is nothing progressive about the Hillary Clinton’s platform
Voting for the right lizard
04 Aug 2016
Who’s afraid of president Trump? Not Paul Demarty
Two roads to ruin
30 Jun 2016
Republican establishment figures are unsure whether to throw their weight behind Donald Trump or wait for better times. Jim Creegan reports
Obscuring class politics
09 Jun 2016
Phil Duncan condemns socialists who supported the Bernie Sanders campaign and counterposes it to building a Marxist party
One, two, three revolutions
21 Apr 2016
Jack Conrad argues that democracy in the United States is corrupted and far from complete. The working class must finish what 1775 began