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
Here we go again
09 Feb 2020
Red lines, cliff edges, friction, no deal, hard Brexit … Eddie Ford gets a sense of déjà vu.
On target for disaster
09 Feb 2020
James Linney looks at the ever growing waiting times.
In the balance
31 Jan 2020
James Harvey looks at the contenders for next month’s Irish general election and the possible coalitions
UK vs Team 27
31 Jan 2020
Brexit might have happened, writes Eddie Ford, but it will be far from plain sailing when it comes to trade talks, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Principled voices few and far between
31 Jan 2020
Despite Corbyn’s imminent departure, the ‘Anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism’ smear campaign remorselessly grinds on, writes Carla Roberts of Labour Party Marxists.
Curing the country of Prevent
24 Jan 2020
The list of ‘extremist’ organisations subject to intervention under the Prevent strategy is laughable - but the consequences could be grave, warns Paul Demarty.
Up against the clock
24 Jan 2020
By insisting that Britain is going to diverge from the EU, Sajid Javid is waving goodbye to the car industry, writes Eddie Ford.
Then there were four
24 Jan 2020
Carla Roberts of Labour Party Marxists shows how appeasement has a terrible logic. But candidates can be pressurised from the left.
Prepare for a bitter fight
24 Jan 2020
The Tories are bent on ensuring that effective trade union action is impossible, writes Peter Manson. How to respond?
Full steam ahead?
16 Jan 2020
While Stormont has been restored, writes James Harvey, the old communal divisions remain firmly in place.
Smoke without fire
16 Jan 2020
Jamie Stern-Weiner (editor) Anti-Semitism and the Labour Party Verso, December 2019, free e-book, pp278
Tarnishing the brand
16 Jan 2020
While Labour leadership candidates pathetically line up to defend Harry and Meghan Windsor in the name of anti-racism and anti-sexism, Eddie Ford says it’s time to put republicanism back onto the agenda.
Put pressure on RLB
16 Jan 2020
CLPs should demand the Labour leadership candidate distances herself from the ‘10 pledges’, writes Carla Roberts of Labour Party Marxists.
Preparing the ground for repression
09 Jan 2020
Further scares about anti-Semitism are signs of the times, reckons Paul Demarty
Our attitude to Europe
09 Jan 2020
A long-standing member of the Communist Party of Britain has tried to start an open debate using the ‘normal channels’. Though this letter was sent to the CPB, the Morning Star and Communist Review in December 2019, it has neither been printed not even acknowledged