Party & Programme
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
Monti prepares for fresh attacks
02 Feb 2012
The nature of the Italian resistance to austerity has so far been contradictory, writes Toby Abse
Mangling the party of Lenin
02 Feb 2012
Opportunist twists and turns and the perversion of democratic centralism have characterised the Socialist Workers Party and the groups it has influenced, including the US International Socialist Organization. But where did these practices originate? Former ISO member Pham Binh examines the method employed by SWP founder Tony Cliff
Choose your conspiracy
02 Feb 2012
Dave Douglass reviews Robert Green's A thorn in their side: the Hilda Murrell murder Rata Books, 2011, pp208,
Overcoming despair
26 Jan 2012
Paul B Smith concludes his three-part article on the challenge of class-consciousness
Muddle, passivity, conformity
26 Jan 2012
The SWP's annual conference was a big let-down following the positive ideas put forward in the final pre-conference internal bulletin. Peter Manson reports
Postscript to demise
26 Jan 2012
Esen Uslu recounts the sad story of the Communist Party of Turkey
No war on Iran! For regime change from below!
26 Jan 2012
Make your voice heard against war and repression, urges Hands Off the People of Iran chair, Yassamine Mather
Politics, not voluntarism
19 Jan 2012
The left is trying to wish a mass fightback into existence. Peter Manson reports on the Unite the Resistance 'emergency conference'
Impediments to consciousness
19 Jan 2012
In the second of three articles, Paul B Smith discusses the negative impact of imperialism, Stalinism and social democracy
No room for anti-Semites
19 Jan 2012
Tony Greenstein looks ahead to this weekend's AGM of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Politics of fear and despair
12 Jan 2012
Paul B Smith calls on the left to face up to the challenge of class-consciousness. This is the first part of a three-part article
No surrender on article 18
12 Jan 2012
Toby Abse reports on the intransigent defence of Italy's Workers' Statute coming from an unexpected source
Preparing for the second wave
12 Jan 2012
December saw huge protests in Moscow and St Petersburg against the rigging of the elections to the duma. Mark Fischer asked Russian socialist Boris Kagarlitsky about their significance
Signs of an awakening
22 Dec 2011
Calls for internal democracy within the Socialist Workers Party can only be welcomed. Peter Manson reports on the third and final 'Pre-conference Bulletin'
Lenin, Kautsky and the 'new era of revolutions'
22 Dec 2011
Lenin's vision of world revolution at the turn of the 20th century was inspired by Karl Kautsky, writes Canada-based scholar Lars T Lih