Meanwhile in France, voters stayed away: A tale of two elections
Analysis June 12, 2017
Is this really a surge in support for centrist politics?
The election which showed that class is back - Final Election briefing (for now)
Opinion June 11, 2017
All change - and things are shifting in our direction at last, writes Lindsey German
The election result: What happened in Scotland?
Opinion June 9, 2017
A look at the difference in this election on either side of the border, from Chris Bambery
The Violence of Austerity
Book Reviews June 7, 2017
The Violence of Austerity demonstrates the terrible impact of cuts and austerity. It shows why we must keep fighting for radical change, argues Ian Midd...
Trump’s climate cynicism
Opinion June 6, 2017
Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris accord shows that he thinks climate change is trivial enough to be used for short-term political posit...
Through my eyes: the social care crisis
Opinion June 2, 2017
John Rees writes about how the social care crisis hit his family
Latest
Theresa May is ‘a dead woman walking’ – but the fight is just beginning
The Conservatives’ ship may be sinking faster than expected, but we should be anything but complacent, writes Kara Bryan
June 11, 2017 Kara Bryan
Trump and the Comey testimony: incompetence, nepotism and skulduggery
Sections of the US elite are at each other's throats, but the death blow to the whole system will only come from the millions of ordinary Americans ...
June 10, 2017 Sean Ledwith
May's deal: return of the Irish Question
As Theresa May finalises her deal with the DUP, it will raise fundamental questions about Irish politics, writes Chris Bambery
June 10, 2017 Chris Bambery
This was the result they said we could never see - Post-Election briefing
Blairism is dead and the left are back, now the real work begins, argues Lindsey German
June 9, 2017 Lindsey German
Theory
Georg Lukacs and the actuality of revolution
Hungarian Marxist Georg Lukacs is under attack. We repost a talk given by Chris Nineham at the recent conference in Budapest to defend him ...
May 6, 2017 Chris Nineham
The Jews, Israel and the Holocaust - key texts
The Blairites' crocodile tears are about defending empire, writes David Moyles in this introduction to The Jews, Israel and the Holocaust ...
May 3, 2016 David Moyles
The Communist Manifesto - key texts
The Communist Manifesto is a pamphlet that refuses to die. As incendiary as the day it was published, Paul Vernell unpacks this founding document
April 8, 2016 Paul Vernell
Books
The Dictator, the Revolution, the Machine: A Political Account of Joseph Stalin
Tony McKenna’s compelling Marxist biography of Stalin disproves the allegation that October 1917 led directly to the dictator’s atrocities, argue...
June 1, 2017 Sean Ledwith
A People’s History of Modern Europe
Pelz’s People’s History of Modern Europe gives an illuminating history of the class struggles and revolts which accompanied the modernisatio...
May 25, 2017 Tom Whittaker
The Econocracy: The Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts
The Econocracy calls for reform and democratisation of the field of Economics so that it may suit the present needs of our society, finds Orlando Hill ...
May 18, 2017 Orlando Hill