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
A very Labour ban
25 Jul 2024
Eddie Ford welcomes any moves towards promoting public health, but a total ban on smoking - as with the so-called ‘war on drugs’ - is senseless and likely to be counterproductive
Flip-flopping programmatically
25 Jul 2024
Marcus Strom reviews David Lockwood The politics of the Malayan Communist Party from 1930 to 1948 NUS Press, 2024, pp248, £31
Rats in a sack
18 Jul 2024
Local assemblies are a recipe for chaos, confusion and ineffectiveness. Jeremy Corbyn continues to disappoint, writes Carla Roberts
A grand get-together
18 Jul 2024
Durham Miners Gala has always been a celebration of the labour and trade union movement. But this year, reports Ian Spencer, it had a special poignancy
Crime and revenge
18 Jul 2024
Eddie Ford welcomes the early release of prisoners, but the emphasis should be on rehabilitation, not crisis management
Reeves and her ‘securonomics’
11 Jul 2024
Labour’s leadership is relying on big business to bring the economic growth needed to fix ‘broken Britain’. Michael Roberts predicts a one-term government
Reform Ltd gets five
11 Jul 2024
Politics continues to move to the right, with Reform UK now having a ‘bridgehead’ of MPs, writes Eddie Ford. What happens next with the Tories, now that Kemi Badenoch is the front-runner, remains to be seen
Not marvellous at all
11 Jul 2024
Carla Roberts looks at the deluded souls who are celebrating the low turnout, Labour’s poor share of the vote and the election of four petty bourgeois independents
A Gaza election?
11 Jul 2024
The low turnout and lack of enthusiasm for Labour could not prevent a Tory bloodbath on July 4. Paul Demarty examines the results, and warns of the right’s hidden strength
Thoughts from afar
04 Jul 2024
Which way for the DSA? There are those who hanker after a Labor Party based on the trade unions, like the Labour Party in Britain. Max Shanly offers some considered words of advice
Upping the fight
27 Jun 2024
Neither the Tories nor Labour will commit to full pay restoration, writes Richard Galen - that despite the huge popular support for doctors
Right questions, wrong answers
27 Jun 2024
George Galloway launched his Workers Party of Britain manifesto before the assembled media. It is characterised by an eclectic mix of World War II nostalgia, radical populism and ‘socialism in one country’ Stalinism, says Carla Roberts
Minimum programme again
27 Jun 2024
To achieve the global transition to communism the working class must first conquer state power - that requires the minimum programme of economic - but crucially political - demands. Mike Macnair responds to Andrew Northall, Gerry Downing and Steve Freeman
Not about to be overthrown
27 Jun 2024
What will the presidential election mean when it comes to sanctions, corruption and the economic woes of the mass of the population? Yassamine Mather looks at the candidates and their rival factions
Bookies, mugs and pollsters
27 Jun 2024
As Sunak’s campaign stumbles from bad to worse, Paul Demarty looks at the latest turn in the betting scandal and, in the absence of any differences of substance, the media obsession with the polls