Party & Programme > The left
Another split, another sect
26 Apr 2012
The left must organise on the basis of genuine democratic centralism, argues Ben Lewis
Keynesian fantasies are no substitute
08 Dec 2011
The Fine Gael/Labour coalition has unveiled the country's fifth austerity budget. Despite that the leading factions of the ULA continue to dither, writes Anne Mc Shane
ULA must take itself seriously
01 Dec 2011
Anne McShane argues that the United Left Alliance must take a lead
Left rhetoric and reformist illusions
01 Dec 2011
The 1891 Erfurt programme adopted by the Social Democratic Party of Germany was regarded as a 'return to Marxism', writes Ben Lewis. If only the same could be said of Die Linke's 2011 version
Zig-zagging social imperialists
01 Dec 2011
What determines the Alliance for Workers' Liberty line is its support for 'democratic imperialism', writes socialist blogger Arthur Bough
Anatomy of an embarrassment
24 Nov 2011
The appearance of 'The protocols of the elders of Zion' on a Morning Star bookstall has provoked a storm of criticisms. Harley Filben wonders what all the fuss is about
Appearances are everything
24 Nov 2011
Peter Manson reports on the SWP's obsession with numbers regarding its latest recruiting front
Keeping it small
03 Nov 2011
Tina Becker argues that we urgently need to start the process of building a real political alternative
Lenin and the United States of Europe
03 Nov 2011
Jack Conrad takes issue with the attempt to recruit Lenin to the CPB nationalist camp
No alternative posed
03 Nov 2011
Anne Mc Shane sees the economy and the failing capitalist system as the central question in Ireland
Finding a wide resonance
27 Oct 2011
Simon Wells is impressed by what he has witnessed outside St Paul's cathedral
A better version of social democracy
27 Oct 2011
At its conference in Erfurt on October 21-23, the German left party Die Linke agreed a new programme. Edith Bartelmus-Scholich reports
Hot autumn in New York
20 Oct 2011
Jim Creegan reports on the occupiers who aim to take on Wall Street and examines the implications for left politics
Black Bloc allowed to wreck protest
20 Oct 2011
The spontaneism of the 'horizontalists' was completely exposed in Rome, writes Toby Abse
Not so memorable
13 Oct 2011
The decline in the anti-war movement has left the STWC all at sea, argues Harley Filben
The tiny cog and its mechanical mindset
13 Oct 2011
Peter Manson reviews the first of three SWP pre-conference bulletins