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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
It's not what you know but who you know
08 Feb 2007
On January 23 Yasir Idris was selected at a meeting of South West Birmingham Respect to contest the Moseley and Kings Heath ward in the May council elections. He beat the Socialist Workers Party's Helen Salmon by 35 votes to 20. Peter Manson spoke to him
Respect: our new moral guardians
08 Feb 2007
Anne Mc Shane reviews Ariel Levy's Female chauvinist pigs: women and the rise of raunch culture (Pocket Books, 2005, pp240, £7.99)
What sort of programme?
01 Feb 2007
Members of the Campaign for a Marxist Party in the Midlands area met last Saturday (January 22) in Birmingham. Dave Spencer reports
How to fight for party
25 Jan 2007
Around 20 comrades came together for the first London meeting of the Campaign for a Marxist Party on January 21. This took the form of a debate and discussion on the immediate tasks of the CMP, initiated by Mike Macnair of the CPGB and Chris Grey of New Interventions. Peter Manson reports
What now for the Marxist Party campaign?
25 Jan 2007
To call for a Marxist party is to intervene in the movement in a sect way, writes Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group, continuing his reply to Mike Macnair
Left network launched
18 Jan 2007
Dave Isaacson reports on the January 13 launch conference of Socialist Youth Network, the Labour Representation Committee's youth organisation, at the University of London Union
SWP puritanism
11 Jan 2007
The Socialist Workers Party is fronting a Respect campaign to rid the East End of strip and lap-dancing clubs. Simon Wells reports
No anti-communist witch-hunts
11 Jan 2007
Members of Communist Students have been banned from a new 'open' socialist youth organisation set up by supporters of the John McDonnell campaign. James Turley and Tina Becker report
Low-key rally
07 Dec 2006
Dave Isaacson reports from the so-called 'conference' of Student Respect, which attracted no more than 80 people - a reflection of the state of the organisation nationally
No resolutions, no democracy
30 Nov 2006
Dave Isaacson reports on the forthcoming 'conference' of Student Respect
Manchester warning
30 Nov 2006
The potential for Student Respect in alliance with the Federation of Student Islamic Societies to make a breakthrough in student politics - and the contradictory results this would have for political and social life on the campuses - has been illustrated by the spat on Manchester University's Student Direct. Emily Bransom reports
A vital task
23 Nov 2006
After the launch of the Campaign for a Marxist Party, and the CPGB decision to redraft its Draft programme, Nick Rogers identifies possible weaknesses in the current version
Dither Thornett?
23 Nov 2006
Divisions are opening up in the ranks of the International Socialist Group/Socialist Resistance over its relationship with Respect, says Cameron Richards
Difficult but refreshing alternative
23 Nov 2006
Joe Craig of the Irish group, Socialist Democracy, welcomes the formation of the Campaign for a Marxist Party, but wonders whether he might have misunderstood the politics of the CPGB
Breakaway deeply divided from birth
16 Nov 2006
Peter Manson reports on the uneasy alliances within Tommy Sheridan's new party Solidarity