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
Support Die Linke - but organise to fight
21 Jun 2007
As of June 16 the two dominant forces on the German left, the Linkspartei.PDS and the WASG, formally ceased to exist and joined forces to create the new left party, Die Linke. Ben Lewis reports from Germany
Compromised 'opposition'
14 Jun 2007
Mark Fischer comments on the imperial economism of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty, which is most crassly expressed in the organisation's refusal to call for a withdrawal of troops from Iraq
So many Kuomintangs
14 Jun 2007
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group continues to push for a halfway house party in opposition to the CPGB's 'ultra-leftism'
Campaigning with Marxist teeth
14 Jun 2007
Oppose all halfway houses, says Peter Manson. We need to be absolutely clear on our principles
Well-meaning but inchoate
14 Jun 2007
As well as the platitudes and compromises from bourgeois politicians, the G8 featured protests from thousands who want 'another world'. Carey Davies reports
End bureaucratic centralism
07 Jun 2007
Unity of the Marxist left is both possible and realistic, argues Mike Macnair. What is lacking is the will
Humpty Dumpty programmers
07 Jun 2007
The London debate over programme put on by the Campaign for a Marxist Party on June 3 was reasonably well attended - there were some 20 comrades present, though none of them were new faces. Phil Kent reports
'British road' dead end
07 Jun 2007
Lawrence Parker reports from the AGM of the People's Press Printing Society (the body that owns and produces the Morning Star) on June 4
Facing disintegration
07 Jun 2007
As South Africa's public sector strike continues to escalate, the crisis besetting the South African Communist Party can only deepen. Peter Manson looks at the SACP's contradictory role
House-building under construction
25 May 2007
Communists need a pool to swim in, not a fish tank, argues Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group
No saviour from on high
25 May 2007
Stan Keable replies to Phil Sharpe on the right strategy for the Campaign for a Marxist Party
Defeat was fault of enemy machine guns
25 May 2007
Mike Macnair replies to Dave Brown and Gerry Downing who argued last week that the defeats of the 20th century are not grounds to rethink the strategic ideas of the early Comintern
SWP "relative autonomy"
25 May 2007
James Turley reviews Alex Callinico's Universities in a neoliberal world (Bookmarks, 2006, pp41, ?2)
Waiting for the messiah
25 May 2007
Mike Sambo of the International Socialist Organisation reports from Harare
Two-way traffic and continued divisions
17 May 2007
As the SWP desperately tries to keep a semblance of control over its Respect offspring in Tower Hamlets, the local branch has seen one of its councillors cross the floor to Labour, while a high-profile Labour leftwinger moves in the opposite direction. Peter Manson reports