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
Endless embarrassments
18 Sep 2025
Angela Rayner, Peter Mandelson and Boris Johnson are not isolated cases. We live under a regime of institutional corruption. Mike Macnair looks for the roots of successive scandals
Nationalist tsunami
18 Sep 2025
Big numbers attended Tommy Robinson’s Unite the Kingdom protest. Part display of xenophobic hatred, part elegy for an imagined past, part call to arms. The left needs to rethink its strategy, argues Eddie Ford
The road from Eton College
11 Sep 2025
Seventy-five years after Orwell’s death, Paul Flewers turns to his ideas on collectivism and socialism in the third of a series of articles
We will not be silenced
11 Sep 2025
Both the 30th national demonstration against the genocide in Gaza and the protest against the proscription of Palestine Action were peaceful and disciplined, writes Ian Spencer, yet the police arrested 890 people under terrorism legislation
Notes on the war
11 Sep 2025
After eight months of diplomatic efforts there has been no deal with Russia. So now, especially with Russian drones over Poland, it is back to an intensification of sanctions and phasing into World War III. Meanwhile, there is a tincture of good news: the social-imperialists are riven with divisions. Jack Conrad reports
The road from Eton College
04 Sep 2025
Seventy-five years after Orwell’s death, Paul Flewers continues his series by turning to his take on socialism, totalitarianism and the significance of Spain’s Civil War
Class composition in a snapshot
21 Aug 2025
We must get beyond abstract dogmas and mere impressionism. Not that official statistics give us easy answers. In his opening article Mike Macnair outlines the different classes in the 2020s
Whose party is it anyway?
21 Aug 2025
While Your Party remains in gestation, it can be all things to all people. But sooner or later lines will have to be drawn. Paul Demarty argues for open contestation between programmes, not individuals
Desperation and delusion
24 Jul 2025
Trump is determined to put the genie back in the bottle. He fed the conspiracy theory around Jeffrey Epstein, now it is the turn of the Democrats. Eddie Ford urges the left not to get sucked in
In for the long haul
24 Jul 2025
Polls showing the yet-to-be-formed ‘Corbyn party’ neck and neck with Labour have caused great excitement. But we must squarely face the obstacles confronting the working class, argues Paul Demarty
139th Big Meeting
17 Jul 2025
David Douglass reports on last Saturday’s Durham Miners Gala and the accompanying controversies over Reform, drink and international politics
Tony Blair and the banality of evil
10 Jul 2025
BCG and the Tony Blair Institute have modelled plans for Israel to relocate Palestinians out of Gaza, a second Nakba, a war crime, for which all involved ought to be publicly tried and, if found guilty, suitably punished, says Eddie Ford
Still waiting for Jeremy
10 Jul 2025
Factional differences in the Corbyn movement have been fought out in secret and then leaked to the bourgeois press. Both sides show not the least understanding of the transparency, democracy and programme that our class urgently needs, says Carla Roberts
Another fine mess
03 Jul 2025
One year in and the Labour government is unpopular, divided and looking incompetent. Strange, given the huge majority and the careful selection process. Ian Spencer wonders who will get the blame
Carnival of the oppressed
26 Jun 2025
Midsummer day’s 350,000-strong Palestine demonstration in London was a defiant, disciplined protest against genocide, war and an increasingly repressive British state, writes Ian Spencer