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
No quick fix
14 Apr 2022
Mimicking the sun and producing power using nuclear fusion has long been a dream and it appears that will be the case for a long time to come. Yassamine Mather explains
A farrago of illusions
14 Apr 2022
Social-Putinism and social-imperialism are not our only problem, argues Jack Conrad. There is the curse of social‑pacifism and centrism too
The biters bitten
14 Apr 2022
James Harvey of Labour Party Marxists asks why the AWL has been proscribed when it has given such unstinting service to the right in promoting the ‘anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism’ big lie
SUPPLEMENT: Imperialism and the state (Part III)
07 Apr 2022
Capitalism produces huge wealth and huge inequalities, both of which play a role in recurring crises
Process of poverty
07 Apr 2022
Will there be a new Winter of Discontent in response to the cost of living crisis? Eddie Ford is hopeful, but it will only happen with organisation and challenging the grip of the trade union bureaucracy
Seasons of crisis
07 Apr 2022
The huge increase in NHS waiting times is not just a result of the pandemic, James Linney explains
Piracy on the high seas
31 Mar 2022
There is a danger of the P&O dispute being railroaded along nationalistic lines. James Harvey looks at the sacking of 800 workers and the government’s response
Squeezing the poor
31 Mar 2022
The chancellor’s spring statement means increasing numbers will have to choose between eating or heating, writes Eddie Ford
End of phase one
31 Mar 2022
As shown by the talks in Istanbul, Vladimir Putin has already lost what could still be a horrible, grizzly, prolonged war. Jack Conrad gives his assessment
What hath Zbig wrought?
31 Mar 2022
Zbigniew Brzezinski’s grand strategy is alive and well under Biden, writes Daniel Lazare
SUPPLEMENT: Imperialism and the state (Part II)
24 Mar 2022
The capitalist state is a form of joint-stock operation. It is, in origin, a joint venture of the bourgeois revolutionaries
Putin to the rescue
24 Mar 2022
Ukraine has saved Boris Johnson’s bacon and he knows it, writes Eddie Ford
Key issue is not Russia
24 Mar 2022
Left must oppose the invasion of Ukraine, insists Tony Greenstein, but who bears ultimate responsibility for the carnage?
Nazis? What Nazis?
24 Mar 2022
One thing is clearly missing from the media coverage of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, argues Daniel Lazare
SUPPLEMENT: Imperialism and the state (Part I)
17 Mar 2022
Early, not late, capitalism generated imperialism, and capitalism without the state is impossible