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
Stalinist illusions exposed
18 Sep 2008
Mike Macnair explodes the myths about the 'gains' of the USSR
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
I did it for my community
21 Feb 2008
Tower Hamlets councillor Ahmed Hussain has defected from Respect-SWP to the Conservatives, making them the official opposition on the council. He spoke to Jim Moody
Defeat the liquidators
21 Feb 2008
Communists should give a guarded welcome to the decision of the LCR to launch a new revolutionary party, writes Peter Manson
Looking good
14 Feb 2008
Partisans for the paper. Mary Godwin reports on the CPGB's February aggregate meeting
Is the party a halfway house?
14 Feb 2008
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group replies to the CPGB's Mike Macnair on the present roots of the national Marxist party in Britain
Roots of Stalinism
14 Feb 2008
Results of research in the Moscow archives throws up new insights on the post-revolution period. Phil Kent reports
Rowan Williams and SWP lies
14 Feb 2008
In Respect, Chris Bambery lied again and again. Secularism 'justifies' islamophobia, advocating secularism plays into the hands of those 'deliberately stoking up' islamophobia, etc. Yet now his Socialist Worker demands separation of church and state, writes James Turley
Conway scandal silence
07 Feb 2008
They just keep on coming - yet another financial scandal ripples through Westminster. James Turley looks at the facts, the lessons and the embarrassment of the SWP
Lies and more lies
07 Feb 2008
Misleaders of the SWP continue to try to deceive its members, writes Jim Moody
Rank and filism beckons
07 Feb 2008
Alan Stevens reports on the Organising For Fighting Unions London day school
No respect for socialist principle
31 Jan 2008
The story of Respect is nearing its end. Peter Manson looks back at the saga of SWP opportunism. This article was originally commissioned by the Russian journal Levaya Politika (Left Politics)