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
Commodification and conditioning
07 Apr 2016
Adam Unwin and John Yandell 'Rethinking education: whose knowledge is it anyway?', New Internationalist, 2016, pp143, £7.99
Don’t appease: fight!
07 Apr 2016
The Labour Party’s Compliance Unit is employing TheDaily Telegraph to pursue its allegations of ‘anti-Semitism’, writes Tony Greenstein
Both sides are reactionary
07 Apr 2016
Demands are growing for Jeremy Corbyn to swing the balance to save Dave Cameron’s bacon. Eddie Ford calls for an active boycott
Kautsky on referenda
31 Mar 2016
As a contribution to the debate regarding the tactics to adopt in relation to the European Union referendum, Ben Lewis has translated this piece by Karl Kautsky on ‘direct legislation’. Kautsky (1854-1938), known as the “pope of Marxism”, was a thinker who, as recent scholarship has underlined, had a profound influence on the theory and practice of Lenin’s Bolsheviks
Direct legislation by the people and the class struggle
31 Mar 2016
By Karl Kautsky
In disarray and retreat
24 Mar 2016
The budget fiasco is a perfect illustration of the contradictions at the heart of the modern Tory Party, argues Paul Demarty
Weapon of choice
24 Mar 2016
False accusations are being carefully aimed at Jeremy Corbyn and the left, argues Tony Greenstein
End of accountability
24 Mar 2016
Total academisation of schooling was always the logical next step, says Micky Coulter
Disaster waiting to happen
24 Mar 2016
Eddie Ford finds the EU-Turkey deal on migrants both inhuman and unworkable
Two strategic illusions
24 Mar 2016
Money can function fully only if it is world money, writes Mike Macnair
Advancing but taking heavy casualties
24 Mar 2016
The Labour right is doing all in its power to retain control and exclude opponents. Stan Keable of Labour Party Marxists reports on the AGM of the CLPD
Not letting on
17 Mar 2016
Peter Manson asks why the CPB fails to inform us as to its real attitude to immigration controls
Bleak prospects for democracy
17 Mar 2016
The latest atrocity once more draws attention to the fact that Turkey is at war, writes Esen Uslu
Due process and justice
17 Mar 2016
In the interests of political debate and clarification we publish Gerry Downing’s appeal against his expulsion
By your advisors shall you be known
17 Mar 2016
Yassamine Mather takes apart John McDonnell’s pledge of responsibility