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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
Agreeing the best model
16 Apr 2026
To stand or not to stand in elections has long divided the left. Marx argued for standing. But on what programme, around what issues? On April 11 the Netherlands Communistisch Platform held a day-school to discuss ‘Marxism and electoralism’. Mike Macnair and Rogier Specht provided introductions
Funeral games
16 Apr 2026
Secret votes, gagging orders and hunting down whistleblowers. Yet, apart from rotten politics, there is nothing to hide. By imposing a needless bureaucratic dictatorship and purging the left, the Corbyn clique is killing what it imagines it is protecting. Carla Roberts reports
Thou shalt not criticise Karie
26 Mar 2026
CEC members may not ‘misrepresent’ or ‘publicly oppose or undermine a decision’. Nor may they pass on ‘confidential’ information or ‘personally attack’ officers. The CEC’s code of conduct is a bureaucrat’s dream. It is designed to silence all and every opposition. Carla Roberts reports
We need light and air
19 Mar 2026
Real power is being exercised behind the backs of the elected committee members. The aim is clear: a politically pliant membership which votes in the approved way in occasional referendums and does the donkey work in elections. Meanwhile demands for closed sessions, secrecy and codes of conduct are threatening to paralyse Grassroots Left, reports Carla Roberts
How not to do democracy
12 Mar 2026
Abridged report from Grassroots Left CEC members
Corbyn’s suffocating regime
12 Mar 2026
Everything was factionally choreographed. All of them knew what was going to happen and how they were supposed to vote. That is how The Many fights the left. Appeals for ‘unity’, ‘reconciliation’ or, god help us, ‘away days’ are beyond useless, says Carla Roberts
Key questions for uniting the left
12 Mar 2026
Today’s left is in a mess. The worst thing we can do is to repeat solutions that unmistakably failed in the past. Charlotte Bourchier of the Spartacist League of Australia discusses the debates in Communist Unity
Definitely His Party now
05 Mar 2026
With Gorton and Denton, Jeremy Corbyn jumped on the Green bandwagon. Where he might simply want an election deal, many will go the whole hog and take out membership. Carla Roberts reports on a very expensive CEC election campaign and the suffocating control-freakery
Those who do the counting
26 Feb 2026
Shedloads of members’ money was spent on a red-baiting election campaign. Grassroots Left remains committed to fight for the kind of socialist, democratic and anti-Zionist party that is urgently needed. Carla Roberts reports
Drag towards bureaucracy
19 Feb 2026
Grassroots Left is discussing how the party can be run democratically and what to do to ensure that CEC members are properly held to account. Carla Roberts explains
Red-baiting by HQ
12 Feb 2026
Despite the expulsions and unhinged attacks, Grassroots Left is on course to win a majority. Fearing defeat, the embattled Corbyn clique has gone into panic mode, says Carla Roberts
Our politics needs light
05 Feb 2026
Corbyn’s clique does not recognise branches, refuses to release membership data, holds fake consultations, insists on secret meetings, demands confidentiality and is unable to issue a clear, unambiguous political statement on Gorton and Denton - all reasons why socialists should support the Grassroots Left, says Carla Roberts
Yet another witch-hunt
22 Jan 2026
Corbyn’s The Many list is stuffed full of careerists, acolytes and the slightly deranged. Meanwhile, using all the Labour Party techniques, left candidates are being barred from standing. A bad omen, warns Carla Roberts
Rough guide to personalities and platforms
11 Dec 2025
Your Party launch conference might not have been allowed to discuss amendments that sought to enshrine the right of members to form platforms and factions - but there are plenty of them already operating and most of them openly. Carla Roberts takes a look
Socialism or barbarism
04 Dec 2025
She called herself anti-Zionist, condemned the witch-hunt, demanded the abolition of the monarchy, denounced the evils of capitalism and set conference alight. This is the Zarah Sultana speech in full