Party & Programme > Class and consciousness
Wide open for the class
19 Apr 2012
What is class-consciousness? Paul B Smith discusses the possibility of a political revival
Heroes and villains
20 Jan 2022
Lawrence Parker reviews 'The chronology of revolution: communism, culture, and civil society in twentieth-century Britain' by Ben Harker (University of Toronto Press, 2021, pp376, £63.99)
Something serious is needed
16 Dec 2021
It is clear that Tony Greenstein has abandoned any pretence of adhering to class politics: that is, the class politics of the working class. Jack Conrad defends the Marxist programme against those who advocate yet another broad-front halfway house
Not a liquidation?
09 Dec 2021
Abandoning any pretence of class politics, Tony Greenstein defends what he calls the ‘merger’ of LAW and LIEN and advocates yet another ‘transitional’ halfway-house broad front
Feeding the revolving door
04 Nov 2021
Andrew Byrne, Gerald Wiley and Derek James report on an all too carefully choreographed event staged by the Socialist Appeal comrades
A long-established disorder?
21 Oct 2021
Famous as a polemical target of ‘Leftwing’ communism, ironically Amadeo Bordiga claimed to agree with Lenin’s strategy for world revolution. David Broder investigates
Addressing the central issues
30 Sep 2021
Foppe de Haan returns to his differences with Mike Macnair on the question of the ‘professional-managerial class’
Class, state and constitution
16 Sep 2021
Rising classes have to reshape states in their own interests. Mike Macnair explores the revolutionary origins of capitalist modernity
Centrality of class independence
12 Aug 2021
Khomeini and the clergy completely outmanoeuvred the left. But it need not have been that way. In his second and concluding article on the role of oil workers in the 1979 revolution, Peyman Jafari stresses the complex nature of ideology and class consciousness
False dichotomy
29 Jul 2021
Ollie Douglas reviews 'Marxism and intersectionality: race, gender, class and sexuality under contemporary capitalism' by AJ Bohrer
Generation Left terrifies right
29 Jul 2021
Eddie Ford calls upon Marxists to take up the challenge to organise the socialist majority of young people
Looking back over the ruins
15 Jul 2021
The final withdrawal of American troops must be put in the context of the April 1978 revolution and the subsequent reaction. The USA and Saudi Arabia armed, financed and promoted a counterrevolution, which included Osama bin Laden and al Qa’eda and ended in the triumph of the Taliban. This is an edited version of an article written by Jack Conrad and first published in June 2003. Its main target is Sean Matgamna, patriarch of the social-imperialist Alliance for Workers’ Liberty. Nowadays, the AWL describes the Taliban as “Islamo-fascist”; back then, though, they were “our kind of people”
A meeting of two halves
01 Jul 2021
We are a campaign for free speech: good. But we are not a Labour campaign: bad. Derek James of Labour Party Marxists reports
Texas and the F-word
10 Jun 2021
Can fascism be established in the absence of a working class threat? Daniel Lazare believes it is possible
Centrality of class
03 Jun 2021
Mike Macnair replies to Foppe de Haan and Catherine Liu on the analysis of history and meritocracy
Appeals of class society
20 May 2021
We need to understand what makes the exploited actually defend the system that oppresses them, argues Foppe de Haan