Author: Mike Stanton

When it comes to politics, theory has got a bad name. And it is all capitalism’s fault.

All this leads me to believe that we should not just restrict ourselves to culture that is politically correct, or to assume that having the right political line makes a…

I used to vote Labour because they were better than the Tories and we needed the Labour Left to build a Socialist alternative. Not any more.

Christmas is a time of debt and solidarity, writes Mike Stanton

Mike Stanton has the 'Last Word' in this weeks Sunday Socialist. What kind of democracy should socialists support?

Left unity matters. We need to understand what divides us and use the revival of class struggle and public protest to build unity in action.

Are there parallels between Tory attacks on the disabled and the Nazi policy of extermination? Is creeping fascism a threat?

John Berger showed in his life and work that you be a writer, an artist, an intellectual of international renown and never sell out in the struggle against exploitation and…

Gorbachev presided over dramatic changes in Russia. Have all the positives been undone under Putin? And who is to blame?

Which Side Are You On? is a great song about class struggle. It came out of a miners’ strike in Kentucky during the Depression. It’s an easy question. On one side…