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
Nationalist blind spot
29 Mar 2007
Sections of the left in Australia and New Zealand are happy to rail against what the US army is doing on the other side of the world, writes Scott Hamilton. But they fall into line when 'our troops' are involved in operations in our own backyard
Clinging to Trotskyist pieties
29 Mar 2007
There is no movement in Britain to set up a new 'mass workers' party', argues Mike Macnair. What can be achieved, however, is a united party of the Marxists
Always imperialist
29 Mar 2007
The third London meeting of the Campaign for a Marxist Party, on Sunday March 25, discussed the disastrous consequences that flow from a flawed reading of Lenin's flawed theory. Mary Godwin reports
Stages, not stageism
22 Mar 2007
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group defends of his theory of 'permanent democratic revolution'
New star recruit Tafazzal Hussain: businessman
22 Mar 2007
Peter Manson on the former Lib Dem council candidate Tafazzal Hussain, who has just joined Respect
Cross-class alliances endanger the struggle against Mugabe
22 Mar 2007
The past week has seen a stepping up of imperialist propaganda against the regime of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, especially in the US and UK. But what is the situation on the ground? Peter Manson spoke to Mike Sambo, national coordinator of the International Socialist Organisation Zimbabwe
Debate SWP won't have
22 Mar 2007
The March 20 'people's assembly', billed by the Stop the War Coalition as "the debate parliament won't have", was, of course, nothing of the sort. Phil Kent reports
Solidarity and SWP's favourite anti-semite
15 Mar 2007
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign wants to have it both ways over saxophonist Gilad Atzmon and the Deir Yassin Remembered group. Tony Greenstein (a founder member of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign and a member of Jews Against Zionism) reports on the annual general meeting
Opportunism in Irish conditions
15 Mar 2007
Socialist Workers Party (Ireland) held its Marxism 2007 event in Dublin over the weekend of March 10-11. The event reflects, as it does in Britain, the current political and organisational state of the SWP. Anne Mc Shane reports
CMP steps up a gear
15 Mar 2007
Peter Manson reports on the first national members' meeting of the Campaign for a Marxist Party
Nationalist squabbles
08 Mar 2007
On Saturday March 3 both the Scottish Socialist Party and Solidarity held one-day policy conferences in Glasgow to finalise their respective manifestoes for the May 3 election to the Scottish parliament. Peter Manson comments
Shambolic scramble for candidates
08 Mar 2007
Cameron Richards reports on the March 6 election meeting of Respect Wales, which was attended by the grand total of 13 people
ISG split over Respect
01 Mar 2007
In January, two leading members of the International Socialist Group, Alan Thornett and John Lister, left the officers' group that heads the Respect national council. Others in and around the ISG-dominated paper/front Socialist Resistance have quit Respect altogether. Jim Moody reports
Fountains and fireworks
01 Mar 2007
Lawrence Parker reviews Raphael Samuel's The lost world of British communism (Verso, 2006, pp244)
Messenger or message?
01 Mar 2007
Peter Manson reports from the February 24 Stop the War Coalition demonstration in London