The state

• Authoritarian agenda January 26 2006
  Anne Mc Shane comments on Tony Blair’s latest anti-social crackdown
• Towards a socialist pensions policy May 5 2005
  According to bourgeois economists, demographic changes mean that the state is no longer able to fund adequate pensions, and so workers must make their own arrangements for the future. Nick Rogers looks at the truth behind the myths
• Don’t trust them March 3 2005
  Blair’s new ‘anti-terrorism’ legislation cannot be defeated using ‘human rights’ arguments, writes Peter Manson. The establishment cannot be trusted with powers that could just as soon be used against us
• Control the bureaucrats November 11 2004
  What are the lessons of Lenin’s 1917 pamphlet State and revolution? Not the need for a ‘commune state’, argues Mike Macnair, but the need for representatives to be made accountable
• Big people and the small state January 8 2004
  The communist project is about the maximisation of democracy, and the minimisation of the state, writes Jack Conrad
• Away with gongs and titles January 8 2004
  The British honours system is more than a laughable anachronism: it sheds light on the nature of our society and the royalist traditions that underpin it. Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group believes that the recent spate of honours refuseniks heralds the birth of a republican socialist party
• State, religion and exploitation December 4 2003
  Al Richardson, who died last week, made a valuable contribution to Marxist thought. As a tribute we republish his article on the Asiatic mode of production, based on an opening given to Communist University 2001
• Democratise the health service June 12 2003
  Ernie Shenton calls for a free and fully funded NHS
• Jail the rail killers June 5 2003
  Renationalise the network under workers' control, demands Ernie Shenton
• Corporate muscle and state power October 3 2002
  Has corporate power distorted ‘true’ democracy? Can protest ‘reinvent’ the state? Mike Fitzpatrick presents his defence of Marx’s theory of the state and takes issue with the fashionable anti-globalisation ideas of George Monbiot and Noreena Hertz