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
Wrong kind of radicalisation
26 Feb 2015
How to explain the ‘teenage brides for IS’? Mike Macnair examines the phenomenon of hope in a disastrous illusion against the background of the left’s failure
Crackdown must be resisted
19 Feb 2015
Anne McShane reports on the Irish struggle against the water tax
Spanish steps to oblivion
19 Feb 2015
Paul Preston The last Stalinist: the life of Santiago Carrillo William Collins, 2014, pp448, £12.99
Learning the lessons
19 Feb 2015
Women were central to the struggle in the miners' Great Strike, says Mark Fischer
The debt is illegitimate
19 Feb 2015
Yassamine Mather looks at the background to the Greek crisis
The new normal
19 Feb 2015
As Denmark becomes the latest staging ground for Islamist atrocities, Paul Demarty asks how the left can confront the growth of religious reaction
Wishful thinking rather than hard truth
12 Feb 2015
Stan Keable of Labour Party Marxists was at John McDonnell’s Labour Left Platform roundtable discussion on February 7
Still not too late
12 Feb 2015
It was necessary to confront the defeatism of the left head on at the end of the miners' strike, says Mark Fischer
Making a beginning
12 Feb 2015
The left should campaign for a Europe-wide constituent assembly, argues Chris Gray
Aftermath of Syriza’s election
12 Feb 2015
Azhdar Ashkan can see no long-term solution to the crisis within the current order
No more Herr Nice Guy
12 Feb 2015
Only the presence of strong international solidarity can be the basis for opposing capitalism, writes Paul Demarty
Oppression and western values
05 Feb 2015
Democracy comes from below, not above, says Peter Manson
A game of chicken
05 Feb 2015
Who will blink first - Alexis Tsipras or Angela Merkel? Possibly neither, worries Paul Demarty
Renzi in command
05 Feb 2015
There is no doubting who the main loser is following the election of the new president, reports Toby Abse
In mortal danger
05 Feb 2015
At the end of the miners strike in 1984-85 the question became whether it was possible to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.