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'Transitional' to what?
02 Aug 2007
Setting the scene for a series of articles on 'permanent revolution', Mike Macnair argues that the dictatorship of the proletariat must take the specific form of the democratic republic
SUPPLEMENT: Origins of the crisis in the SWP - part two
17 Jan 2013
Third-period Blairism and the necessity of demystifying Bolshevism
The left: Rebellion, regroupment and the party we need
17 Jan 2013
Ben Lewis surveys the British lefts response to the crisis gripping the SWP, and calls for a radical change of culture
SWP's Tom Walker: Why I am resigning
10 Jan 2013
Tom Walker, (now former) Socialist Worker journalist, argues that the time has come to leave the SWP
Anti-Capitalist Initiative:Up the Swanny
06 Dec 2012
The Anti-Capitalist Initiative hosted two events over the weekend of December 1-2. Mark Fischer was not impressed
UTR: Sectarian and philistine
22 Nov 2012
The SWPs fear of genuine debate was on grisly display throughout the day. Peter Manson reports on the Unite the Resistance conference
HM conference: Theory in exile
15 Nov 2012
The ninth annual conference of Historical Materialism journal provides a snapshot of the academic left, writes James Turley
China: Apologia with racist characteristics
15 Nov 2012
Once again, laments Eddie Ford, the Morning Star prostrates itself before the corrupt Chinese bureaucracy
Socialist Party: On a publicity high
08 Nov 2012
In an interesting session on events in South Africa and the local CWI body the Democratic Socialist Movement, Peter Manson thinks that a more serious approach to the SACP is needed
The Left: There’s no success like failure
11 Oct 2012
Tony Greenstein bemoans the continuing self-marginalisation of Britains far left
Overcoming a false dichotomy
27 Sep 2012
Where does the general election leave the Netherlands? Piet Potlood looks at the contending forces and points to the weakness of the left
Why the ship won’t sail
27 Sep 2012
Peter Manson reports on the misplaced efforts to talk up the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
Where’s the action?
09 Aug 2012
The Tory-Lib Dem government has not produced a spike in industrial action, notes Paul Demarty. So what should be made of the lefts strike fetishism?
Ditch sects and fronts
03 May 2012
Last Saturday's launch of the Anti-Capitalist Initiative provided further evidence of an increasingly fractured, rightward-drifting left. Ben Lewis reports
For Labour affiliation
21 Apr 2011
Debate on the question at the Communist Unity Convention that founded the CPGB
Serwotka gives a lead - TUC must follow
07 Apr 2011
The TUC has had leadership of the anti-cuts movement thrust upon it, writes Peter Manson. But the left must look to the long term