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
Path to nowhere
20 Jan 2022
Daniel Lazare accuses his critics of burying their heads in the sand over the nature of the BDS campaign
An uncertain situation
20 Jan 2022
Discounting the danger of Islamic reaction is more than stupid. Paul Demarty looks at the Kazakh uprising and the CSTO intervention
Operation Save Big Dog
20 Jan 2022
Is Boris Johnson toast? Eddie Ford comments on the partygate scandals and what it means for Sir Keir’s prospects
Will ye no come back?
20 Jan 2022
Amidst rumours of Jeremy Corbyn being set to launch a new party, Derek James asks why so many on the left are still in thrall to Corbynism
Class struggle and sport
13 Jan 2022
David John Douglass reviews 'Colliers: Northumberland’s pitmen and their Football League team' by Jon Tait (Rough Badger Press, 2021, pp171, £7)
Three cheers for juries
13 Jan 2022
With attorney general Suella Braverman threatening to use extraordinary measures and a deafening silence coming from Labour’s front bench, Paul Demarty unhesitatingly welcomes the acquittal of the Colston Four
Self-declared heretic replies
06 Jan 2022
Tony Greenstein insists that the merging of LAW and LIEN is precisely the ‘twin-track’ approach that Jack Conrad advocates
Creating a carnival of reaction
06 Jan 2022
James Harvey looks at how and why the island of Ireland was partitioned one hundred years ago
Failed with flying colours
06 Jan 2022
Contemporary US capitalism has shown a complete inability to renew itself through reform, argues Jim Creegan
Disarray over abortion
06 Jan 2022
Anne McShane looks at the right’s assault on abortion in the US, the DSA’s abstentionism and the shameful record of what still passes for the left
Getting BDS and DSA right
16 Dec 2021
Not surprisingly, last week’s article by Daniel Lazare, ‘Taking a pass on Israel’, has caused some considerable controversy. Thankfully, three well-informed comrades have written replies. Needless to say, our sympathies are fully with the critics
Something serious is needed
16 Dec 2021
It is clear that Tony Greenstein has abandoned any pretence of adhering to class politics: that is, the class politics of the working class. Jack Conrad defends the Marxist programme against those who advocate yet another broad-front halfway house
The future that ended
16 Dec 2021
Three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the causes and consequences still elude most of the left, writes Paul Demarty
Fun and punishment
16 Dec 2021
Crazily, the government wants to intensify the cruel and unwinnable ‘war on drugs’. Eddie Ford, on the other hand, wants to call it off and legalise all drugs
Sheen comes off bluster and boosterism
16 Dec 2021
Derek James looks at the stunning Tory rebellion over Covid-19 safety measures and Labour’s lead in the polls