Jim Creegan
Articles by Jim Creegan
USSR polemic: In defence of defencism
January 10 2013
The Soviet Union did indeed feature a form a form of planning, argues Jim Creegan in his reply to Paul Flewers
US elections: Mugged by reality
November 15 2012
The US presidential election of 2012 is less interesting for the victory of Barack Obama than for the debacle of the Republican Party, writes Jim Creegan
US elections: The more effective evil
November 01 2012
Barack Obama hardly represents a rampart against Republican extremism, as some on the left still maintain. Jim Creegan looks at the state of play in the final week of the election campaign
US elections: Crazy politics and class forces
October 11 2012
Jim Creegan examines the campaign of the Republican Party in the 2012 presidential elections
A radical for all seasons
July 26 2012
Jim Creegan takes a look at the political life of Alexander Cockburn, 1941-2012
Democratic centralism and idiocy of the sects
June 28 2012
Comrades need the space to develop and express their ideas, argues Jim Creegan. The wider the distance between a given question and the party's immediate objectives and tasks, the more latitude they should have to do so in public
West coast rebound
March 29 2012
Oakland and Longview - Jim Creegan reports on two parallel struggles
Hot autumn in New York
October 20 2011
Jim Creegan reports on the occupiers who aim to take on Wall Street and examines the implications for left politics
Washington paralysis: a geriatric disorder
August 11 2011
Jim Creegan looks at the battle of the budget ceiling and the intransigence of the Tea Partiers
Middle East comes to Midwest USA
March 03 2011
Jim Creegan reports on the class struggles in Wisconsin
No change, no hope
January 13 2011
Jim Creegan reports on Barack Obama's surrender to Congressional Republicans and the renewed ruling class offensive following the Democrats' defeat in the US mid-term elections
Obama's healthcare triumph is a con
April 15 2010
Jim Creegan looks at the devious manoeuvring carried out by Obama and the Democratic leadership
Tea Party tempest
March 18 2010
Jim Creegan examines the social roots and ideological drives behind the anti-Obama populist movement that has exploded on to the political scene in the last year
Searing indictment of capitalism spoilt by nostalgia for New Deal
October 08 2009
Jim Creegan reviews Michael Moore’s (director) Capitalism: a love story 2009 (no UK release date yet)
Grander in scope, poorer in content
November 29 2007
Were Marx and Engels really at one over the dialectic of nature? US communist Jim Creegan replies to Jack Conrad
The usable past of left republicanism
June 14 2007
Far from pursuing a coherent strategy, writes Jim Creegan, James Connolly ended up believing that perhaps other forces could act in the workers' place
Ken Loach's use of Irish history
April 19 2007
US communist Jim Creegan revisits the controversy over a film that has at last reached New York
