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
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
Too early to say
15 Dec 2011
Mike Macnair reviews Ian Birchall's 'Tony Cliff: a Marxist for his time' Bookmarks, 2011, pp664,
In the footsteps of Kropotkin
15 Dec 2011
How did self-declared anarchists come to support the Nato bombing of Libya? David Douglass reports
The disappearing slogan
08 Dec 2011
Whatever happened to 'All out, stay out'? Peter Manson investigates
Keynesian fantasies are no substitute
08 Dec 2011
The Fine Gael/Labour coalition has unveiled the country's fifth austerity budget. Despite that the leading factions of the ULA continue to dither, writes Anne Mc Shane
ULA must take itself seriously
01 Dec 2011
Anne McShane argues that the United Left Alliance must take a lead
Left rhetoric and reformist illusions
01 Dec 2011
The 1891 Erfurt programme adopted by the Social Democratic Party of Germany was regarded as a 'return to Marxism', writes Ben Lewis. If only the same could be said of Die Linke's 2011 version
Zig-zagging social imperialists
01 Dec 2011
What determines the Alliance for Workers' Liberty line is its support for 'democratic imperialism', writes socialist blogger Arthur Bough
SUPPLEMENT: Classical Marxism and the general strike
24 Nov 2011
Socialism or barbarism
24 Nov 2011
The left must reorganise and reorientate, argues John Bridge. Otherwise the consequences will be dire
Anatomy of an embarrassment
24 Nov 2011
The appearance of 'The protocols of the elders of Zion' on a Morning Star bookstall has provoked a storm of criticisms. Harley Filben wonders what all the fuss is about
Appearances are everything
24 Nov 2011
Peter Manson reports on the SWP's obsession with numbers regarding its latest recruiting front
Non-political politics
17 Nov 2011
Michael Copestake has been talking to the occupiers at Sheffield Cathedral