Democracy

Socialists voting at SWP conference
Teach Yourself Marxism

Why do we need to be democratic centralists?

Do democracy and centralism contradict each other?
04 September 2026
Workers vote during the Garment Strike in 1910 showing democracy
Teach Yourself Marxism

Why socialists care about voting and democracy

Real democracy matters to socialists
25 January 2025
Thousands of workers and students on sit down protest on streets of Seoul, South Korea
International

Both left and right on streets in South Korea

South Korea has been in turmoil since the president announced, and then de-announced martial law
07 January 2025
The City of London—the bosses' lair
In Depth

Who pulls the levers of power in Britain?

Real power is hidden
09 June 2024
Online retailers, such as Amazon, rely on planning (Picture: Chris Watt)
Reviews & Culture

Tame vulture capitalists—or must we destroy them?

Review of Grace Blakeley's new "Vulture Capitalism"
11 March 2024
International

What’s behind the political crisis in Pakistan after election upset?

Election surprise for ruling class and military
10 February 2024
Comment

Juries, courts and challenging the whole ‘justice’ system

Juries can upset the ruling class
26 September 2023
News

Thai elections: blow to military, but liberal parties offer no solution

Hope lies with the movement
16 May 2023
International

Imran Khan calls for ‘freedom protests’

Protests raged as Khan was arrested
15 May 2023
Police arresting protesters
Alex Callinicos

State clampdown is wider than royal protests

States are clamping down
09 May 2023
International

Far right party is biggest in new assembly elections in Chile

Assembly will draft a new constitution
08 May 2023
Dozens of protesters with placards such as "Freedom for Palestine"
News

Join protest against Israeli prime minister’s visit to London

Binyamin Netanyahu is coming on Friday
23 March 2023
Israel flags at a protest in Jerusalem
Background Check

Talk of a civil war in Israel shows a fundamental crisis

Israel’s government wants legal change
21 March 2023
News

University workers show it’s possible to overturn a sell-out

Activists insisted on real democracy
19 March 2023
News

Mass meetings challenge Jo Grady’s move to shut down university strikes

Rebellion in UCU union
16 March 2023
International

Palestinian activist: Israeli crisis is ‘internal conflict over the means of oppressing’ us

Whole state is built on settler colonialism
10 March 2023
UCU members on the picket line outside Queen Mary University.
In Depth

How workers have set up strike committees

Education workers share their experiences
17 February 2023
News

University workers resist UCU union leaders’ attempts to squash strikes

The fight isn’t over yet
11 January 2023
Brazil: hundreds of far right supporters in yellow tops on the balcony of a government building
International

Workers must act after coup attempt in Brazil

Far right mobs stormed key government buildings
08 January 2023
International

What’s behind the downfall of Peruvian president Pedro Castillo?

Dina Boluarte replaces Castillo
08 December 2022
Protesters wear gas masks, hard hats and carry umbrellas in a still from Hong Kong: City On Fire
Reviews & Culture

Hong Kong: City on Fire—how the struggle looked from the streets

How a movement learned to fight
14 November 2022
International

Far right gains in Israeli election flow from state’s racist foundations

One democratic state is the solution
03 November 2022
The SW View

Nobody voted for Rishi Sunak

Rishi Sunak is unelected
25 October 2022
Make me a Prime Minister
In Depth

A TV programme that reveals more than it wants to  

Make Me A Prime MInister is revealing
03 October 2022