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
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
The road from Eton College
04 Sep 2025
Seventy-five years after Orwell’s death, Paul Flewers continues his series by turning to his take on socialism, totalitarianism and the significance of Spain’s Civil War
Class composition in a snapshot
21 Aug 2025
We must get beyond abstract dogmas and mere impressionism. Not that official statistics give us easy answers. In his opening article Mike Macnair outlines the different classes in the 2020s
Whose party is it anyway?
21 Aug 2025
While Your Party remains in gestation, it can be all things to all people. But sooner or later lines will have to be drawn. Paul Demarty argues for open contestation between programmes, not individuals
Desperation and delusion
24 Jul 2025
Trump is determined to put the genie back in the bottle. He fed the conspiracy theory around Jeffrey Epstein, now it is the turn of the Democrats. Eddie Ford urges the left not to get sucked in