Democracy & State
Overcoming the enemies within
17 May 2012
The left must unite in order to change the relationship of forces both within and outside the Labour Party, argues Mike Macnair
Notes on the war
16 Oct 2025
Donald Trump threatens to supply Tomahawk missiles - a clear escalation, when it comes to war in the rear, says Jack Conrad. Meanwhile, on the front line the stalemate continues and the rainy season has arrived
The road from Eton College
09 Oct 2025
In the final article of his seven-part series, Paul Flewers grapples with a conundrum. Why did George Orwell, a self-proclaimed socialist, collaborate with the British state’s anti-Soviet propaganda machine?
Rightwing bidding war
09 Oct 2025
Kemi Badenoch promises a UK version of America’s ICE, part of a desperate attempt to stem Tory support haemorrhaging to Reform. Not only does this threaten mass deportations, whole areas would be subject to a reign of terror, says Eddie Ford
Uses and abuses of murder
09 Oct 2025
As Israel’s popularity in the west craters, Sir Keir Starmer and the entire establishment cynically use the attack on Manchester synagogue to abuse and further criminalise protest against genocide, argues Paul Demarty
The road from Eton College
02 Oct 2025
In the sixth of his series of seven articles, Paul Flewers asks why George Orwell’s ‘whips woven of words’ fell so easily into the hands of his political opponents
Republicanism and the split
02 Oct 2025
It is not yet possible to assess whether Corbyn or Sultana are champions of the UK’s social monarchy or the English social republic, says Steve Freeman. Choosing between them is not a matter of age or experience, but politics
Saint Charlie and Trump’s crusade
25 Sep 2025
America’s right is unleashing a wave of repression which began with its own version of ‘cancel culture’, but inevitably now includes the left. Paul Demarty calls for organisational preparedness and an uncompromising defence of free speech
All the king’s men
25 Sep 2025
Behind all the talk of the ‘special relationship’, there is radical subordination. What about Trump, the man? Not only was his already huge ego fed, flattered and further inflated: there are the mid-terms and maybe even a third term, writes Eddie Ford
Death of a sycophant
18 Sep 2025
Charlie Kirk’s assassination is another glimpse into a particularly American pathology. Paul Demarty expects nothing good to come of it
The road from Eton College
18 Sep 2025
Seventy-five years after George Orwell’s death, Paul Flewers, in the fourth part of his series, focuses on the establishment’s ideological misuse of Animal farm
Endless embarrassments
18 Sep 2025
Angela Rayner, Peter Mandelson and Boris Johnson are not isolated cases. We live under a regime of institutional corruption. Mike Macnair looks for the roots of successive scandals
Nationalist tsunami
18 Sep 2025
Big numbers attended Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom protest. Part display of xenophobic hatred, part elegy for an imagined past, part call to arms. The left needs to rethink its strategy, argues Eddie Ford
The road from Eton College
11 Sep 2025
Seventy-five years after Orwell’s death, Paul Flewers turns to his ideas on collectivism and socialism in the third of a series of articles
We will not be silenced
11 Sep 2025
Both the 30th national demonstration against the genocide in Gaza and the protest against the proscription of Palestine Action were peaceful and disciplined, writes Ian Spencer, yet the police arrested 890 people under terrorism legislation
Notes on the war
11 Sep 2025
After eight months of diplomatic efforts there has been no deal with Russia. So now, especially with Russian drones over Poland, it is back to an intensification of sanctions and phasing into World War III. Meanwhile, there is a tincture of good news: the social-imperialists are riven with divisions. Jack Conrad reports