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The long view

29 Mar 2012

Communists must be patient, writes Paul Demarty, avoiding the twins of opportunism and adventurism

SWP: Leatherites thirsting for a purge

10 Oct 2013

Faced with criticism from two directions, the central committee is desperately trying to limit the damage. Peter Manson reports

SWP: At war with itself

03 Oct 2013

The leadership is divided between two competing factions. Meanwhile there is the challenge presented by the official opposition. Peter Manson reports on the growing disarray

Die Linke: Safe spaces task force

26 Sep 2013

A word of warning from Maciej Zurowski for those in Left Unity who wish to emulate the German left party

Safe spaces: Conway-Hudson school of censorship

26 Sep 2013

Paul Demarty defends the idea of free speech on the left

SWP: Treating the symptoms

26 Sep 2013

Attempting to reform the disputes procedure will not cure the SWP of its bureaucratic centralism. Meanwhile, splits have opened up in both the opposition and loyalist camps, writes Peter Manson

CWI Ireland: Attempt to silence critics

08 Aug 2013

Anne McShane surveys the response to CWI member Craig Murphy's honest and forthright article on the Socialist Party in Ireland

Socialist Party Ireland: Not for the public domain

25 Jul 2013

Craig Murphy, a member of the Socialist Party in Ireland, reports on the resignation of four prominent comrades and the dishonest response of the leadership

Delta resigns: Now the rest should follow

25 Jul 2013

The resignation of Martin Smith was long overdue, argues Peter Manson

Democratic centralism: Further fortunes of a formula

25 Jul 2013

While the emphasis inevitably shifted according to circumstances, writes Lars T Lih, for the Bolsheviks democracy was just as vital as centralism

Alex in wonderland

18 Jul 2013

Attempts by the leadership to portray the SWP as the only ‘Leninist’ organisation in town are totally at odds with reality, argues Ben Lewis

Democratic centralism: The genie and the bottle

18 Jul 2013

If you can loosen SWP restrictions on free debate on one occasion, asks Peter Manson, why not do so permanently?

SWP: How did this bloody mess come to pass?

18 Jul 2013

Marxism, the annual school of the SWP, saw a revamped opposition, reports Mark Fischer

SWP: Opposition flexes its muscles

11 Jul 2013

The ‘leadership’ got its disciplinary vote, writes Paul Demarty. But then it pathetically backed down

SWP leadership: Laughable history produces laughable results

11 Jul 2013

Jack Conrad argues that the pre-1917 Bolshevik model of organisation should be properly studied and properly understood

Socialist Party/CWI: Rudeness and revolution

04 Jul 2013

The Committee for a Workers’ International should not insist on micro-managing debates, argues Paul Demarty

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