State

State

• It’s badly wrong when whistleblowers rot in jail but war criminals walk free - weekly briefing

  

  Liberals muddying the waters around the WikiLeaks fallout is all about letting the warmongers off the hook, argues Lindsey German   

• Referendum: first time farce, second time tragedy – weekly briefing

  

  Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour must reorientate on class politics to create a bulwark against the right and the far right, argues Lindsey German

• A slow coup against Corbyn has started. We must stand up against it.

  

  A coordinated campaign against Jeremy Corbyn is underway and the left inside and outside the Labour Party must stand against it, argues Chris Nineham

• Deportation flights: Tories have learned nothing from Windrush

  

  Despite the furore over the Windrush scandal last year the Tories show no signs of scaling back their racist deportation policies, argues Sean Ledwith

• Europe in revolt

  

  As protests across Europe are generalising, UK activists must seize the time, writes Dragan Plavšić

• May's deal is dead: this is what must happen next

  

  Only a general election can break the impasse, and to make it happen we need to get out on the streets and pile the pressure on, argues Martin Hall

• Brexit as the organic crisis of the British state

  

  Brexit is exposing the crises inherent in contemporary British and European capitalism, argues Sean Ledwith

• Kavanaugh, Trump and the degradation of US politics

  

  Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court marks a shift to the right, and Trump's antisemitic rhetoric shows the rot at the core of the US state, argues Sean Ledwith

• Taking control is the way to end the misery of 21st century work - weekly briefing

  

  Organising in the workplace must be central to our reshaping of mainstream politics, argues Lindsey German

• The deep state vs. Jeremy Corbyn: three decades of spying, smearing, and intimidating

  

  History shows that the deep state will always mobilise all its resources against even a relatively moderate left-reformist like Corbyn

• Learnt nothing and forgotten everything: the next crash is coming - weekly briefing

  

  Finance capital is a game for the rich and when it goes wrong it's our side who are expected to pay the price, argues Lindsey German

• Zimbabwe after Mugabe: his successor struggles to maintain grip on power

  

  What we are seeing in the first elections after Mugabe is the deep state clutching to power, but can it hold on? Asks Shabbir Lakha

• Spy Kids: children being used for covert ops

  

  New revelations of police and intelligence agencies using children as spies is a chilling practice of child exploitation argues Jamie Wright

• A win for women in Ireland, a reminder of what's holding back the North

  

  After the victory for Yes today, the reactionary politics holding Northern Ireland back is a construct of British imperialism, argues Reuben Bard-Rosenberg 

• Not One Step Back: Catalonia rises in protest as 5 ex-ministers imprisoned

  

  Escalating repression by the Spanish state has sparked huge anger and an appetite for militant action, reports Mathew Barton from Tarragona

• What's happening in Catalonia is an assault on democracy

  

  As the wave of repression from the Spanish state continues, Catalonia needs our solidarity now more than ever, argues Chris Bambery

• A weak and unpopular establishment is losing control - video

  

  Chris Nineham is interviewed about his book 'How the Establishment Lost Control'

• What does Corbyn's Brexit speech really mean?

  

  Jeremy Corbyn has outlined the Labour party's position on Brexit - in particular, regarding the customs union - Martin Hall breaks it down

• Unco-operative capitalism - weekly briefing

  

  The showdown between public need and private greed will mean taking on the banks and the City from the get-go, argues Lindsey German

• Carillion: two kinds of bailout, two class interests

  

  This can go one of two ways. Let's make sure it goes the way of the workers

• Look who isn't coming to dinner - weekly briefing

  

  Trump deflected is an object lesson in the power of protest but it is only a beginning, writes Lindsey German

• Today’s fringe is tomorrow’s respectable racism - weekly briefing

  

  POTUS' tweets are a symptom not a cause: our side has to start presenting credible alternatives, argues Lindsey German

• Man gets engaged to woman

  

  Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's engagement is an inspiration to all of us normal folk

• Why socialists should support Catalonia

  

  The national question has returned to mainland Europe and we have to choose a side, argues Dragan Plavšić   

• Zimbabwe: Change to keep things the same

  

  The coup against Robert Mugabe is about maintaining control

• Catalonia: resistance lights the path to victory

  

  Saturday’s stunning demonstration was the largest since the referendum, and mass disobedience and community organising lay behind it

• The many crises of the British state

  

  The British state is enveloped in crisis more than at any point for 30 years. One more push could topple this government, argues Chris Bambery

• Crisis in Catalonia - live updates

  

  Live updates of the fast-moving situation in Catalonia

• Lenin, state and revolution: an introduction

  

  Lenin’s classic pamphlet on the role of the state in capitalist society has lost none of its relevance, writes Dragan Plavšić

• The new taboo: terrorism and its causes

  

  As the media blizzard around the Westminster attacks begins to recede, Chris Nineham looks to some home truths

• Martin McGuinness and the armed struggle in context

  

  What actually sustained one of the final stages of England’s oldest imperialism, asks Lindsey German

• Double or quits: Scottish independence on the march

  

  Once again a challenge to the union can provide space for proper oppositional forces to develop, argues Brian Heron 

• Get your rosaries off my ovaries: thousands march in Dublin for #Strike4Repeal

  

  A new generation of female activists is refuelling Ireland’s reproductive struggles, observes Kara Bryan 

• Lenin's State and Revolution

  

  The Revolution 1917 event is this Saturday 25th Feb at Rich Mix London. Lenin's State and Revolution offers crucial insights to those campaigning to change the world 100 years later, explains Paul Vernell

• Article 50, democracy and the People’s Brexit

  

  Current debates around Brexit are awash with ideology, Shabbir Lakha helps us beat a path toward strategy

• Starting as you mean to go on: Trump and the movement

  

  Recent protests contain the seeds of future victories but nothing is automatic, notes Lindsey German
   

• The British state and The City - part 3

  

  The third in a three-part series, in which Chris Bambery takes a look at the intertwined history of the state and the City of London

• The British state and The City - part 2

  

  The second in a three-part series, in which Chris Bambery takes a look at the intertwined history of the state and the City of London

• The British state and The City - part 1

  

  The first in a three-part series, in which Chris Bambery takes a look at the intertwined history of the state and the City of London

• Signs of change in the Balkans? The Bulgarian and Moldovan elections

  

  Is the stifling pro-western consensus that has dominated Balkan and eastern European politics for the last quarter of a century finally on the wane, asks Dragan Plavšić

• Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect?

  

  This short, sharp and powerful collection of essays is a stirring inspiration in the search for liberation and justice, finds Adam Tomes

• Morroco’s Makhzen: repression and resistance

  

  Fallout from the Arab Spring continues to permeate North African struggles, writes Richard Greeman

• Burkini ban: the Islamophobia that lies beneath the beach secularism

  

  Is France's left doing enough to challenge the new wave of state Islamophobia, asks John Mullen 

• Immigration detention and the private sector: state coercion on the cheap

  

  A support group gathers disturbing testimony from people deported by commercial contractors, reports Lotte LS

• Brazil coup: will the left respond?

  

  Héctor Rios takes a look at the context of the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff

• Chilcot, parliament and Tony Blair’s lies

  

  The state is still using pro-war rhetoric to cloud the truth behind the War on Terror, argues Lindsey German 

• James Connolly: a revolutionary remembered

  

  12 May marks the centenary of the state murder of working class hero James Connolly. Chris Bambery reflects 

• Don’t just watch: The logic of Corbyn’s rise revealed

  

  Corbyn's rise is only the most recent expression of a long term trend towards a more radical and left-wing politics, argues Chris Nineham

• Why is the BBC biased? Podcast

  

  We talked to Des Freedman, Media Professor at Goldsmiths University about the contradictions of the media, and the supposedly neutral BBC

• The principles of liberation: how Lenin rescued Marx

  

  Chris Nineham reviews 'Reconstructing Lenin. An intellectual biography' by Tamas Krausz

• Classic texts: a summary of Lenin’s State and Revolution

  

  Can the state be taken over because it is a neutral space or does it have to be overthrown? Paul Vernell looks at Lenin's answer

• Crisis and Control: The Militarisation of Protest Policing

  

  In a period of social and economic crisis, Crisis and Control by Lesley J Wood, provides an understanding of the state logic that leads to increased police militarisation, finds Adam Tomes

• Gramsci’s Leninism

  

  Chris Walsh explores Antonio Gramsci as a Leninist, the originality of his thinking and the relevance of Gramsci today

• Marxism and the crisis - a strategy for the left

  

  John Rees looks at the left's analysis of the crisis and outlines a strategy for resisting our rulers attempts to make us pay for it