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
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
Kautsky: From Erfurt to Charlottenburg
10 Nov 2011
Ben Lewis introduces Karl Kautsky's 'Guidelines for a socialist action programme'. This is the first published English translation
Kautsky: 'Guidelines for a socialist action programme'
10 Nov 2011
The renegade holds out the hand of friendship to the right, while trying to justify his past
No ambition, no vision
10 Nov 2011
As the unions prepare for the biggest strike since 1926, the SWP cannot see further than recruiting to itself. Peter Manson reports on its second internal bulletin
ILP left looks to CPGB
10 Nov 2011
These two questions of parliamentarianism and dictatorship of the proletariat must be settled by you in no ambiguous manner, writes Tom Bell
Principled opposition, not constitutional cretinism
03 Nov 2011
Mike Macnair explains what is wrong with 'a Labour government for its own sake'
Keeping it small
03 Nov 2011
Tina Becker argues that we urgently need to start the process of building a real political alternative
Lenin and the United States of Europe
03 Nov 2011
Jack Conrad takes issue with the attempt to recruit Lenin to the CPB nationalist camp
No alternative posed
03 Nov 2011
Anne Mc Shane sees the economy and the failing capitalist system as the central question in Ireland
Finding a wide resonance
27 Oct 2011
Simon Wells is impressed by what he has witnessed outside St Paul's cathedral
A better version of social democracy
27 Oct 2011
At its conference in Erfurt on October 21-23, the German left party Die Linke agreed a new programme. Edith Bartelmus-Scholich reports