May 09 2013

Ukip’s anti-EU nationalism is mirrored by the CPB. Michael Copestake takes a look

May 09 2013

Ukip’s success at the county council elections reflects its voters’ prejudices, but also long-term alienation from official bourgeois politics, argues Paul Demarty

May 02 2013

Thatcher has been compared to Winston Churchill, and quite rightly - both were virulently anti-working class. Eddie Ford looks at Churchill’s toxic legacy

May 01 2013

The CPGB is urging supportive votes for anti-cuts candidates in the May 2 local elections

April 25 2013

Nigel Farage is in the process of rebranding his party in an attempt to shed its protest vote image. Michael Copestake wonders what his chances are

April 25 2013

Attempts to elevate Margaret Thatcher into a national hero are unlikely to succeed, writes Peter Manson

April 18 2013

Thatcher’s elaborate funeral has been used by the rightwing establishment to elevate her into national sainthood. Meanwhile unofficial Britain welcomes her death, says Eddie Ford

April 18 2013

Jack Conrad explores the conditions which created Margaret Thatcher and takes issue with the ‘great person’ version of history

April 11 2013

The politics of revenge are understandable, but futile, argues Peter Manson. It is not individual representatives of capitalism that need ‘getting’: it is capitalism itself

April 08 2013

As the 80s wore on, we realised that our assessment of the Miners’ Great Strike of 84–85 was badly misjudged. “A defeat, but not a strategic one”, we wrote at the time. Clearly, we were wrong.