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
Marxist party or Labour Party mark two?
12 Nov 2009
SPEW's Socialism event had a session on young people. Laurie McCauley reports and asks what politics the working class needs
Soviet 'planning' and bolt-on democracy
12 Nov 2009
SPEW's Socialism event had a session on Stalinism's collapse. Mark Fischer points out what it represents for Marxists
The working class intellectual and the apparat
12 Nov 2009
James Turley offers an appreciation of the life of Chris Harman, 1942-2009
Open letter to the Socialist Workers Party
15 Oct 2009
Mark Fischer, the CPGBs national organiser, questions the worth of SWP calls for unity
The four wagers of Lenin in 1917
17 Sep 2009
The Bolshevik decision to make revolution was based on four key predictions, or wagers, says Lars T Lih: international revolution, soviet democracy, peasant followership and progress towards socialism. This is an edited version of the third speech he gave to the CPGBs Communist University
Lenin, Kautsky, and 1914
10 Sep 2009
In the second of his talks to the CPGBs Communist University, Lars T Lih takes a closer look at Lenins reaction to the betrayal of German social democracy at the outbreak of World War I
VI Lenin and the influence of Kautsky
03 Sep 2009
In the first of three talks given at the CPGBs Communist University, historian Lars T Lih discussed the relationship between two great Marxists. This is an edited version of his speech dealing with the period 1894-1914
Rediscovering Lenin
18 Dec 2008
Lars T Lih is an acclaimed scholar living in Canada. Ben Lewis spoke to him about his book, Lenin rediscovered: 'What is to be done?' in context (2006) and some of the questions it raises for the left in understanding its own history and tradition
Left unity - at what cost?
04 Dec 2008
Parti Socialiste leader Melenchon aims to be new Mitterrand, writes Jean-Michel Edwin
Stalinist illusions exposed
18 Sep 2008
Mike Macnair explodes the myths about the 'gains' of the USSR
SWP dumps John Rees
18 Sep 2008
The leader with the greatest responsibility for the Respect disaster has been ousted. Peter Manson reports on the palace coup in the SWP
Return to Marx
07 Aug 2008
James Turley reviews Mike Macnair's 'Revolutionary strategy' November publications, 2008, pp204, £7.99
Down with utopia!
08 May 2008
The bankruptcy of the neoliberal model has created a vacuum for alternatives, writes Boris Kagarlitsky. If we do not fill it from the left, it will be filled from the right
Carry on regardless
28 Feb 2008
It is time for the SWP membership to call a halt to the leadership's stubborn GLA charade, argues Peter Manson
From SWP to Cameron's Tories
21 Feb 2008
Jim Moody asks if rank and file SWP members will challenge their leadership on its electoral follies