With the relative success of Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s presidential bids there is growing interest in observing and emulating how his party, LFI operates. Fiedia Armoise and Amanda Levi argue that this tendency is a blind alley and propose a reimagining of the concept of the Workers Party based on Marx’s conception of the workers’ state.
Reporting back from the three assemblies at The World Transformed that attempted to diagnose and overcome the impasse of the British left, Lewis Hodder details the varying levels of class consciousness of the crowd that coalesced around criticism of the leadership of the new…
The times have been dark in Britain. Reform UK continues its march towards government, an authoritarian Labour places ever more limits to our freedoms, all whilst living standards continue to decline. A carve up ceasefire deal is imposed on the Palestinian people, then immediately violated.…
In my last article for Prometheus, I tried to explain the broad details of what has been happening in the secretive national process to create a new party of the left, and to explore some of the underlying dynamics contributing to the apparent dysfunction and…
Following our recent ‘Marxist Unity’ day school in Salford, speakers were asked to share their speeches for publication on our website. As one of the organisers, I have written my own reflection, hoping this provides an evaluation for an event we hope is replicated across…
At the beginning of November, the 13000-member-strong youth wing of the German Left Party Die Linke, the Linksjugend [’solid], passed a motion titled “We must never again remain silent in the face of a genocide”. Linksjugend [‘solid] is the first major political organisation in Germany…
Madeleine Norman, of the Filton 18, reflects on their time in prison after a suicide in HMP Low Newton. In prison, as in occupied Palestine, the spectre of death is constant, and Norman emphasises that as much as death has the ability to galvanise…
As Sir Keir’s government sinks to the depths of unpopularity, and the march of the populist Right—in the shape of Reform—seems to proceed unabated by the influence of a Left alternative, commentators have begun to wonder why it is that the Greens have seen such…
Editor’s note: This article was also published on the Anti*Capitalist Resistance website here. Why the Labour Party has been central to political strategy Historically strategic and tactical discussion among revolutionaries in Britain has been dominated by how you relate to the Labour Party. Unlike in…
