Illusions in liberalism still lie like a fog on our thinking

Just as we cannot detach colonialism or slavery from the golden age of liberalism, neither can we swallow modern-day mainstream Continue reading →

Europe’s elite are worried once again 

This appeared in the Morning Star 11 April 2019 NICK WRIGHT recalls the Portuguese revolution and its degradation, arguing that Continue reading →

Things can only get (a little bit) better

from the Morning Star Thursday 14 March 2019 NICK WRIGHT continues his discussion of Labour’s prospects with a look at Continue reading →

What can Corbyn’s Labour learn from the collapse of social democracy elsewhere?

from the Morning Star 28 February 2019 If Labour is to govern to transformative effect, it must become the mechanism Continue reading →

The EU is destroying social democracy

The EU is destroying social democracy said Britain’s communists last night. The Communist party’s international secretary John Foster told ther Continue reading →

A deluded promotion of a full blown division in the Labour movement

by Michael Ford Jeremy Cliffe, the Economist’s “Bagehot” political columnist and blogger, has been running a stentorian campaign for a Continue reading →

An intelligent, if flawed, social democratic analysis. . .

  NICK PEARCE writing in the New Statesman presents an interesting analysis, from the standpoint of the technocratic right wing Continue reading →

What is behind Michael Brie’s “The Tragedy of Party Communism”?

by Roger Keeran and Joseph Jamison (USA)   In March 2015 the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (RLF) posted an essay by Continue reading →