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
'Official' CPGB History: Scotching the myths
10 Jan 2013
The history of the official CPGB was much more complex than tankies versus Euros. This is the book-launch speech given by Lawrence Parker in December
Gay marriage: Compromising with bigots
20 Dec 2012
The marriage equality law is now a shambles - because David Camerons government is hostage to incorrigible reactionaries, argues Paul Demarty
Tyneside history: A legacy of struggle
06 Dec 2012
David Douglass reviews: Joseph M Fewster, 'The keelmen of Tyneside: labour organisation and conflict in the north-east coal industry 1600-1830', The Boydell Press, 2011, pp232, £60
By elections: Austerity assault intensifies
06 Dec 2012
The coalition is not as weak as last weeks election results suggest, says Peter Manson
Middlesborough review: Rapid development and workers’ struggle
29 Nov 2012
David Douglass reviews: Minoru Yasumoto, 'The rise of a Victorian ironopolis: Middlesbrough and regional industrialisation', Boydell Press, 2011, pp250, £60
USSR Review: Sticking with old dogmas that have failed time and again
29 Nov 2012
Paul Flewers reviews: Workers Power, 'The degenerated revolution: the rise and fall of the Stalinist states', Prinkipo, 2012, pp584, £13.90
Police: Hundred-million facelift disaster
22 Nov 2012
As expected, voters wanted nothing to do with last weeks PCC elections, writes Jim Moody
LRC AGM: No short cuts to rebuilding
22 Nov 2012
The November 10 AGM of the Labour Representation Committee was on balance positive. But the left is still painfully weak both organisationally and politically. Andy Gunton of Labour Party Marxists gives his assessment
Democracy and state: Revolutionary road - a bourgeois saga
15 Nov 2012
Marc Mulholland examines the complex interrelationship between democracy, class struggles and the state
Socialist Party: Economist republicanism
08 Nov 2012
The Socialist Party's economism was on full display during a session on the monarchy and the state reports Peter Manson
Socialism 2012: Labour: for a ‘civil war’
08 Nov 2012
Is TUSC the new Labour Party? Mark Fischer reports from a Socialism 2012 session on Labour
Socialist Party: Joining the nationalist bandwagon
08 Nov 2012
Sarah McDonald reports on SPEW's commitment to socialism in one country
Tories: Revenge of the nasty party
01 Nov 2012
David Cameron once liked to pose as a compassionate Conservative, writes Paul Demarty. But no longer
Scotland: Independence from what?
25 Oct 2012
The Scottish National Partys support for Nato confirms Alex Salmond as a canny bourgeois politician, argues Paul Demarty
Hillsborough: Crown in the dock
25 Oct 2012
Steve Freeman and Phil Vellender take a closer look at the Hillsborough cover-up and locate the blame at the very top