Party & Programme
End the cycle of splits
24 May 2012
If the left is to build a serious political organisation it will have to facilitate internal dissent, writes Mike Macnair. And that will require both majorities and minorities to act responsibly
Crisis can no longer be hidden
06 Dec 2007
The crisis that split apart Respect is now enveloping the SWP itself. Peter Manson looks at the bitter debate within the organisation
Fresh start for Campaign for a Marxist Party
29 Nov 2007
In a rebuff to sectarians and halfway house supporters, the recall conference of the Campaign for a Marxist Party put it on a much sounder basis last Saturday. The tiny, unrepresentative Democratic Socialist Alliance faction that had dominated the committee for over a year, doing little or nothing, was replaced. Jim Moody reports
Programme debate continues
29 Nov 2007
CPGB comrades in London are continuing our discussions on the redrafting of our Draft programme and we are now coming towards the end of section three of the current version, 'Immediate demands'. Peter Manson reports
Grander in scope, poorer in content
29 Nov 2007
Were Marx and Engels really at one over the dialectic of nature? US communist Jim Creegan replies to Jack Conrad
Truth versus slurs
29 Nov 2007
On November 21 Hands Off the People of Iran held a successful launch meeting in Manchester despite sectarian attempts to undermine it from the Socialist Workers Party. Ken Browning reports
New communism versus old Marxism
29 Nov 2007
Steve Freeman of the Revolutionary Democratic Group accuses the CPGB of voting against its own politics at the CMP conference
Respect booty prize
29 Nov 2007
Madani Girls School in Tower Hamlets, east London, was the venue for the Respect (Galloway version) November 25 hustings to determine the prospective general election candidates for the two constituencies of Bethnal Green and Bow, and Poplar and Limehouse. Simon Wells reports
A rough guide
22 Nov 2007
The Campaign for a Marxist Party holds its reconvened conference this weekend. Jack Conrad looks at the main motions, amendments and political issues
Renewal of populism
22 Nov 2007
The Galloway version of Respect is taking confidence from its common anti-SWPism, writes Peter Manson. But the lack of clarity inherited from its parent means it cannot be a vehicle for working class advance
Maintaining the pretence
22 Nov 2007
Posing left, pretending to be a victim, but talking only to itself, the SWP's rump of Respect could not raise the tone of its rally-cum-conference beyond the banal. Not only has the SWP lost around 500 members, writes Jim Moody, but its leadership has learnt nothing from the Respect debacle
Hidden from history
22 Nov 2007
Lawrence Parker, The kick inside - revolutionary opposition in the CPGB 1960-1991 2007, £4.00 (+ £1.15 postage), pp75
Fight on two fronts
22 Nov 2007
More than 200 people attended the November 17 conference, 'The first casualty: war, truth and the media today', reports Tina Becker. The SWP's apologetic position on Iran was very much present, as were journalists from the Iranian television channel, Press TV. But contributions from the floor were much more encouraging
Socialists for Labourism
22 Nov 2007
With the hostilities in Respect reaching their messy denouement last weekend, it was almost possible to forget the rather less fiery Socialism school of the Socialist Party in England and Wales. James Turley reports
Salvage operation
15 Nov 2007
There are now two Respects nationally. And in Tower Hamlets - more than anywhere else - this split is replicated on the ground. Simon Wells reports on the latest conflicts
The procedural is political
15 Nov 2007
We must learn to recognise both bureaucratic and legalistic manipulation, writes Mike Macnair