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
Learn military art
02 Feb 2006
From VI Lenin, 'The military programme of the proletarian revolution' (1916 - www.marxists.org)
Freedom of speech still in danger
02 Feb 2006
While Blair's defeat over religious incitement is to be welcomed, the new law could still be wielded against the working class, writes Peter Manson. That is why it is appalling that George Galloway and Respect were New Labour's only allies in the Commons
Fight for soldiers' rights
02 Feb 2006
Emily Bransom comments on demands by disgruntled British soldiers to form their own 'armed forces federation'
No champion of the oppressed
02 Feb 2006
Socialists should not celebrate Hamas's victory in the Palestinian elections. Women and secular forces will very likely be the first to suffer, says Katherine Quinn
Authoritarian agenda
26 Jan 2006
Anne Mc Shane comments on Tony Blair's latest anti-social crackdown
Representation - crisis unresolved
26 Jan 2006
As expected, the RMT's 'Crisis in working class representation' conference was almost entirely a gathering of the organised left, writes Peter Manson. The union bureaucracy has no intention of founding a new political party
Defend free speech
19 Jan 2006
Abu Hamza and Nick Griffin have more in common than they would like to admit: both are being prosecuted for their views and speeches - rather than their actions. Communists must take a firm stand against the chipping away of our civil liberties, because left critics of the government might be next in line, says Tina Becker
Festival of Labourism?
19 Jan 2006
The working class movement needs its own republican socialist party, argues Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group
Scramble for centre ground
12 Jan 2006
Emily Bransom comments on the resignation of Charles Kennedy
The tip of the iceberg
05 Jan 2006
Liam O Ruairc comments on the outing of leading Sinn Fein member Denis Donaldson as a spy for the British secret service
Umbilical cord joins New Labour to Cameron's Tories
05 Jan 2006
Graham Bash (Labour Left Briefing) assesses the left's prospects for 2006 - and urges support for an unusual candidate to the new Labour Party NEC
Booze and moral panics
15 Dec 2005
How should communists view the new '24-hour-drinking'-legislation? Eddie Ford says that alcohol and drugs are class questions
A full life for the elderly
01 Dec 2005
Eddie Ford looks at the long awaited Pensions Commission report and puts forward the communist programme: for retirement at 60, for the tripling of pensions
United democratic opposition needed
24 Nov 2005
Principled communists and socialists should start working together in order to combat accustions of islamophobia and treachery, says Anne Mc Shane
Bizarre, upside-down politics
24 Nov 2005
Peter Tatchell responds to the implied SWP charge of racism and islamophobia against him and Outrage