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
A reminder
11 Feb 2010
The disgraceful role of Campaign Iran, outlined by Tina Becker
Left in Die Linke loses its Bonaparte
11 Feb 2010
The resignation of Oskar Lafontaine is a serious blow to the German left party. Tina Becker reports
Oil-slick divisions
11 Feb 2010
International Marxist Tendency has suffered a damaging split. Not a new phenomenon, notes James Turley
Left unity should be a top priority
11 Feb 2010
Tusc poses the necessity of a Marxist party, not a Labour Party mark two, writes Peter Manson
Socialist Action and the PSC
04 Feb 2010
Ahead of this Saturday's Palestine Solidarity Campaign AGM, Tony Greenstein of Brighton PSC argues that Socialist Action is leading the movement nowhere
Latest 'united front' launched
04 Feb 2010
Chris Strafford reports on the 'Right to Work' conference
Sects and fronts go round in ever diminishing circles
04 Feb 2010
Dave Isaacson argues for a united revolutionary student organisation
A real united front could organise unemployed
28 Jan 2010
Mike Macnair takes a looks ahead to the SWP's 'Right to Work' conference
Lessons of the NUWM and UWC
28 Jan 2010
Mark Fischer takes a look at the National Unemployed Workers Movement and the Unemployed Workers Charter
Some thoughts on the proposed charter
28 Jan 2010
Ben Lewis welcomes the initiative of Communist Workers of Iran and offers some fraternal criticisms
For left unity
21 Jan 2010
An open letter to Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition from the CPGB
No more proscriptions, bans or secret cabals
21 Jan 2010
The CPB has pulled out of Tusc, reports Peter Manson. Where does that leave the coalition?
SUPPLEMENT: Prospects of the Russian Revolution
14 Jan 2010
By Karl Kautsky. translated into English for the first time by Ben Lewis
SUPPLEMENT: Kautsky, Lenin and the 'April theses'
14 Jan 2010
Could Karl Kautsky - the 'pope' turned 'renegade' of orthodox Marxism - have influenced Vladimir Ilych's 'April theses'? Here we print a Karl Kautsky article from April 1917, translated into English for the first time by Ben Lewis. It is introduced by Lars T Lih, a historian based in Canada, who has been at the forefront of re-examining the complex relationship between these two widely misunderstood figures of the 20th century workers' movement
Left Platform trounced
14 Jan 2010
Peter Manson reports on an overwhelming victory for Martin Smith and the central committee