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
First Iran, now Russia
17 Mar 2022
Sanctions, whether ‘targeted’ or not, inevitably affect the mass of ordinary people, argues Yassamine Mather, while those at the top use them to tighten their grip on power
Westminster is main culprit
17 Mar 2022
Anne McShane is appalled by the systemic institutional abuse that took place in the children’s homes of Northern Ireland over decades. But why has the UK government been let off the hook?
An unsafe technology
10 Mar 2022
Russian shelling near the Zaporizhzhia plant is a stark reminder of the inherently dangerous nature of nuclear power, warns Eddie Ford
Cementing US control
10 Mar 2022
Mike Macnair spoke to Online Communist Forum on the 50th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s historic week-long visit to China
Away with comforting delusions
10 Mar 2022
‘Official communism’ is bitterly divided over the Ukraine war. Paul Demarty traces the battle lines back to their origins
Spineless of the little blob
10 Mar 2022
Its response to the Ukraine war shows the official Labour ‘left’ is sinking ever further into the mire, writes James Harvey
Far right anti-vaxxers
03 Mar 2022
We can confront them on the streets. Canada’s ‘trucker’ convoy provided a timely warning to the left, writes John Clarke
Neither 1914 nor 1940
03 Mar 2022
Mike Macnair interrogates the bogus claims made by Paul Mason and Alex Callinicos about imperialism and the Ukraine war
From sanctions to slump?
03 Mar 2022
Michael Roberts looks at the dreadful consequences of the economic war being waged against Russia
Our sort of refugees?
03 Mar 2022
The Ukraine crisis sharply highlights the communist demand for open borders, writes Eddie Ford
A lesson in courage
03 Mar 2022
Anti-war protests in Russia give a glimmer of hope in a perilous situation, argues Paul Demarty
SUPPLEMENT: Many were the dead
24 Feb 2022
There are still those who play down or make light of the slaughter that took place in the Soviet Union under Stalin. Indeed organisations such as the CPB’s Young Communist League, George Galloway’s Workers Party and the CPGB (Marxist-Leninist) boast of a recent growth of recruits. Jack Conrad looks at the Soviet Union as a mode of mortality
Get out of Zionist ghetto
24 Feb 2022
Communists say national liberation is a task of the working class. Tony Greenstein takes issue with the left Zionism of Daniel Lazare
Main enemy is at home
17 Feb 2022
When it comes to Ukraine, writes Eddie Ford, what matters is not territorial integrity, but the danger of generalised war in Europe
Heading far-right
17 Feb 2022
In light of recent opinion polls, Toby Abse looks at the increasing danger of a neo-fascist government