James Foley says there’s no meaningful comparison between Israeli state violence and Palestinian resistance, and recalls the western-imperial roots of the colonial state.

The Scottish election will place a new bid for independence before the electorate. But the case for independence suffers from an ambivalence to the question of democratic sovereignty. James Foley argues that the empowerment of the working class majority must be at the heart of socialist intervention on the question.

Political leadership is necessary, argues James Foley, but it should be built on structures of accountability, not fandoms.

In a review of a new book about the ‘Professional Managerial Class’ , James Foley says middle-class activists dress up conformity as a war on cultural backwardness.

The ideology of imperialist war has become almost indistinguishable from the rhetoric of human rights in recent decades. James Foley reviews a new study of liberal interventionism by Philip Cunliffe.

Responding to the Scottish Government commissioned report of re-opening the Scottish economy after lockdown, James Foley looks at the dilemmas for those looking to challenge the new stage of capitalist development.