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
Ten versus ten
10 May 2007
Jack Conrad offers an alternative to the Socialist Party's method and its programme in the run-up to this Saturday's conference of the Campaign for a New Workers' Party
CPB unity 'surge'
10 May 2007
The Morning Star's Communist Party of Britain, by its own standards, adopted a relatively ambitious approach to the elections. It stood candidates on each of the five regional lists for the Welsh assembly and contested Glasgow Govan in the elections for the Scottish parliament, as well as standing for a number of council seats across the country. Lawrence Parker reports
Class-consciousness and the naked king
10 May 2007
Russian communist Boris Kagarlitsky, founder of the Moscow-based Institute of Globalisation Studies, speaks to Mark Fischer about Yeltsin, Putin, the liberal opposition and the workers' movement
Speeches and class war
03 May 2007
Alan Stevens reports from this year's May Day march in London
Fence-sitter
03 May 2007
Barry Biddulph, of Sheffield CMP, adds his thoughts on halfway houses
No backsliding
03 May 2007
The April 29 London meeting of the Campaign for a Marxist Party discussed at length the need for the CMP to stand firm on its founding principle - that communists need to campaign for a Marxist party in the here and now, not at some time in the indefinite future. Mary Godwin reports
Propaganda for a lost generation
26 Apr 2007
Phil Sharpe replies to Mike Macnair on the question of the Marxist party's programme
'Don't criticise Iranian regime'
26 Apr 2007
At the April 19 activists' meeting of Campaign Iran, our call for principled internationalism was met with SWP-backed nationalist accusations of displaying an "imperial and colonial" viewpoint, which was "catastrophic for the people of Iran". Tina Becker reports
Ghosts of 2002, poverty of 2007
26 Apr 2007
The deeply divided French left has only itself to blame for its abysmal results in the presidential election. Peter Manson looks at the continuing decline of the Parti Communiste Français and the bankruptcy of the far left
Link in the chain
19 Apr 2007
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group elaborates his theory of 'democratic permanent revolution'
Party standing on principle
19 Apr 2007
Sajid Mehmood is the Respect candidate for Park ward in the metropolitan district council of Calderdale. Peter Manson spoke to him about his strange route into Respect - via Labour, the Tories and Labour again
Programme, or ad hoc reflections?
19 Apr 2007
Mike Macnair replies to Phil Sharpe on the question of programme
Call to work harder
19 Apr 2007
Will Lindsey German split anti-Tory vote for London mayor? Simon Wells reports on the Respect meeting to select candidates for the Greater London Assembly elections
Putting out the trash
12 Apr 2007
Economic and political interpenetration both internationally and nationally makes a mockery of the Revolutionary Democratic Group's 'democratic permanent revolution'. Mike Macnair concludes his response to Dave Craig of the RDG
Sheridan to back SNP
12 Apr 2007
Both the Scottish Socialist Party and Solidarity are in self-destruct mode, says Peter Manson