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
Expect broken promises
01 Sep 2022
Enough is Enough will not deliver a new workers’ party. On the contrary it will enhance the career prospects of the likes of Andy Burnham and return masses of angry people to the Labour fold, argues James Harvey
From goch to pinc
11 Aug 2022
Mike Macnair critiques the ongoing political degeneration of Anticapitalist Resistance and the Mandelites
No time for Sir Keir
11 Aug 2022
With the rise in trade union militancy, all sorts of rumours are circulating about establishing some kind of new left party. James Harvey reports
A hot autumn too
11 Aug 2022
Things are clearly heading towards a monumental explosion of strikes and protests, writes Eddie Ford
SUPPLEMENT: The general strike and classical Marxism
04 Aug 2022
Indy2, strikes and boycotts
28 Jul 2022
Why are the ‘official communists’ in such a muddle over the SNP’s bid to hold a legal referendum on independence? James Harvey critiques the YCL’s gensec
Very much in control
28 Jul 2022
The US may be in decline, writes Moshé Machover, but the left is doing little or nothing in the way of strategic thinking
Ideologue of the revolution
28 Jul 2022
He drew on secular thinkers such as Frantz Fanon, Jean-Paul Sartre and Karl Marx, Catholic liberation theology and the symbolism and language of Shi’ite Islam. Lydia Apolinar explores the ideas and influence of Ali Shariati
An open letter to ACR
21 Jul 2022
Tony Greenstein accuses Anti-Capitalist Resistance of giving succour to the ‘anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism’ witch-hunt in the Labour Party
One foot in the grave
21 Jul 2022
RMT’s withdrawal from Tusc was understandable, especially given the consistently dismal electoral performance. But, argues, Paul Demarty, this leaves SPEW, the mothership, in profound crisis too
Not yet another coalition
14 Jul 2022
James Harvey looks at the storming of government buildings, the danger from the army and the prospects for winning a real Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
State and philosophy
14 Jul 2022
Mike Macnair reviews Beyond Leviathan: critique of the state by István Mészáros (edited by John Bellamy Foster, Monthly Review Press, 2022, pp482, £18.76)
Let’s talk about divorce
14 Jul 2022
Does Biden’s lame response to the Supreme Court mark the end of the line for the DSA’s strategic reliance on the Democrats? Daniel Lazare argues for a break
First our own rulers
14 Jul 2022
Far from running out of troops and material and facing defeat, Russian forces continue to relentlessly advance. But, Alexander Gallus of the US journal Cosmonaut argues, for us the main enemy remains at home
Cliffism to ministerialism
07 Jul 2022
The SWP’s comrades in Ireland are dreaming of joining a ‘broad alliance’ capitalist government led by Mary Lou McDonald’s Sinn Féin. Why does Alex Callinicos so tamely acquiesce to what is a betrayal of elementary principle, asks Anne McShane