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Different plot twists, same ending
25 Aug 2016
Jim Creegan shows that there is nothing progressive about the Hillary Clinton’s platform
Voting for the right lizard
04 Aug 2016
Who’s afraid of president Trump? Not Paul Demarty
Two roads to ruin
30 Jun 2016
Republican establishment figures are unsure whether to throw their weight behind Donald Trump or wait for better times. Jim Creegan reports
Obscuring class politics
09 Jun 2016
Phil Duncan condemns socialists who supported the Bernie Sanders campaign and counterposes it to building a Marxist party
One, two, three revolutions
21 Apr 2016
Jack Conrad argues that democracy in the United States is corrupted and far from complete. The working class must finish what 1775 began
Tactical flexibility, political principle
31 Mar 2016
Bernie Sanders should stand as an independent socialist in the presidential election, argues Eddie Ford
Not out of it yet
03 Mar 2016
Bernie Sanders is still in the race, argues Tom Munday
Possibilities and pitfalls
25 Feb 2016
The job of socialists is to channel the opportunities opened up by the Sanders campaign into the fight for class independence, argues Jim Creegan
The real Iowa coup
04 Feb 2016
Thanks to Sanders, a space is opening up for the ideas of Marxism, argues Tom Munday
The Sanders project
22 Oct 2015
Alan Smithee compares the political shift on both sides of the Atlantic
Spontaneity and the trap of Laborism
22 Jul 1999
A member of the expelled minority of the Committee for a Workers International section in the USA slams the leadership of Peter Taaffe and Lynn Walsh
Mistaken position
04 Feb 1999
James Paris of the US Marxist Workers’ Group argues that the CPGB’s refusal to “defend Iraq” is an error that can be corrected
Open challenge to Taaffe
16 Oct 1997
Earlier this year five - ultra-economistic - members of Labor Militant (sister organisation of the Socialist Party) were expelled from the US group, whose leadership was acting in concert with the International Secretariat of the Committee for a Workers International. The expelled members included John Reiman and a leading comrade referred to as SO’T. Here we publish an extract from the US minority document, The expulsions, which calls on CWI supporters to fight for what they understand as genuine democratic centralism
One group, two lines
25 Sep 1997
Labour day in Detroit
03 Jul 1997
Socialist Labour Party ‘voided’ member and Unison activist Barry Biddulph reports on workers struggle against the odds in the USA