List of left-wing publications in the United Kingdom
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This is a list of left-wing publications published regularly in the United Kingdom. It includes newspapers, magazines and journals.
Contents
Current publications
Daily
- The Morning Star - Co-operative, reader-owned socialist newspaper. Britain's Road to Socialism, the programme of the Communist Party of Britain, underlies the paper's editorial stance. It was formerly the Daily Worker, before being renamed in 1966.
Weekly
- New Statesman - independent
- The New Worker - from the New Communist Party
- The Socialist - from the Socialist Party
- Socialist Worker - from the Socialist Workers Party
- Tribune - Labour movement newspaper, with Labour Party connections
- Weekly Worker - published by the Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee)
Fortnightly
- Scottish Socialist Voice - from the Scottish Socialist Party
- Solidarity - from the Alliance for Workers' Liberty
Monthly
- Anticipations - the Young Fabians' journal
- The Catalyst - from the Solidarity Federation
- Fight Racism, Fight Imperialism - from the Revolutionary Communist Group
- Gagged! - from South Wales Anarchists[1]
- Labour Left Briefing - produced by Labour Party members
- New Internationalist - independent
- Peace News - independent
- Resistance - from the Anarchist Federation
- Revolution - from the British section of Revolution
- Socialism Today - from the Socialist Party
- Socialist Appeal - from the British section of the International Marxist Tendency
- Socialist Campaign Group News - connected with the Socialist Campaign Group of the Labour Party
- Socialist Review - from the Socialist Workers Party
- Socialist Standard - from the Socialist Party of Great Britain
- Workers' Hammer- from Spartacist League of Britain
Bi-monthly
- Chartist - connected to the Labour Party
- Class Struggle - from Workers' Fight
- The Fargate Speaker - from the Sheffield group of the Anarchist Federation
- Hereford Heckler - independent anarchist paper with local news and views from Herefordshire[2]
- Lalkar - formerly the journal of the Indian Workers' Association, now independent, but sympathetic to the CPGB (ML)
- New Left Review - independent
- Proletarian - from the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist)
- Red Pepper - independent, appeared monthly from 1994, relaunched as a bi-monthly in 2007
- Scottish Left Review - independent
- Socialist News - from the Socialist Labour Party
- Socialist Resistance - from the International Socialist Group and Socialist Solidarity Network
- Workers' Power - from Workers' Power
Quarterly
- Ceasefire Magazine - independent publication[3]
- Communist Review - from the Communist Party of Britain
- Direct Action - from the Solidarity Federation
- Fifth International - from the League for the Fifth International
- International Communist Forum - from Workers' Fight
- International Socialism - from the Socialist Workers Party
- Marxist International Review - from the International Marxist Tendency
- Revolutionary Perspectives - from the Communist Workers Organisation
- rs21 - from Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century
- Socialist Studies from Socialist Studies (1989)
- Socialist Youth Magazine of International Socialist Resistance (socialist youth organisation ISR)
- Workers' Hammer - from the Spartacist League
- World Revolution - from World Revolution (four times a year)
Tri-annually
- Capital & Class - from the Conference of Socialist Economists
- Critique (Journal of Socialist Theory) - independent
- Frontline - associated with the Scottish Socialist Party
Unknown or irregular frequency
- Aufheben - libertarian communist journal[4]
- Black Flag - independent anarchist
- Bread & Roses - from the Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies)
- The Bristolian - independent paper 'smiting the high and mighty,' exposing the council, politicians and businesspeople in Bristol[5]
- Challenge - from the Young Communist League
- Freedom - from Freedom Press
- Mayday
- News Line - from the Workers Revolutionary Party
- Organise! - from the Anarchist Federation
- Radical Philosophy
- Revolutionary History - independent
- Slaney Street - independent, Birmingham based free paper [6]
- Student Socialist - from Socialist Students
- The Whinger
- Workers - from the Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)
- Workers' Weekly - from the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)
Defunct
Daily
- Daily Citizen
- Daily Herald - from the Trades Union Congress (1912-64)
Weekly
- The Bee-Hive - initially from the London Trades Council, then independent (1861-72)
- The Call - official organ of the British Socialist Party, terminated 1920 with establishment of The Communist
- Clarion - independent (1891-1931)
- The Communist - publication of the Communist Party of Great Britain from 1920 until replaced by The Workers' Weekly early in 1923
- Justice - from the Social Democratic Federation, British Socialist Party and then National Socialist Party (1884-1933)
- Labour Herald - independent (1981-85)
- Labour Leader - independent until acquired by the Independent Labour Party (1887-1986)
- Labour Standard - from the London Trades Council (1881-85)
- Labour Weekly - official Labour Party newspaper which was closed in 1988
- Militant - from the Militant Tendency (later Militant Labour, now the Socialist Party of England and Wales, new paper is The Socialist) published 1964-97
- News on Sunday - independent
- Reynolds News - independent until acquired by the Co-operative Press (1850-1967)
- The Socialist - from the Socialist Labour Party (1903-?)
- Socialist Commentary - from the Socialist Vanguard Group (1934-78)
- Socialist Organiser - from the Socialist Organiser Alliance
- Soviet Weekly - from the Novosti Press Agency (1942-91)
Fortnightly
- Class Struggle - from the Revolutionary Communist League of Britain (1973-1987)
Monthly
- Marxism Today - from the Communist Party of Great Britain
- Militant International Review - from the Militant Tendency
- New Times - Democratic Left
- Workers Liberty - from the Alliance for Workers Liberty
Unknown or irregular frequency
- Alert Scotland - from the Communist Party of Scotland
- Economic and Philosophic Science Review - formerly the journal of the International Leninist Workers Party, now independent
- Fightback - from Communist Forum
- New Communist Review - from the New Communist Party
- Red Flag - from the Revolutionary Workers Party (Trotskyist)
- Scottish Marxist Voice - from the Communist Party of Scotland
- Socialist Action - from Socialist Action
- Socialist Studies - from the United Socialist Party
- What Next Journal
- Workers Action (WIL)
Notes
See also
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