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
SWP 'no platform' fiasco
23 Nov 2006
Last weekend's grandly named People's Assembly saw the Socialist Workers Party adopt a highly contradictory position on the crucial question of defence of democratic rights, including the right to free speech. Peter Manson reports
Sex and the human revolution
23 Nov 2006
Socialist Worker has begun a series of articles by Sally Campbell. They purport to explain the origins of women's oppression. However, there exists an obvious lacuna in her account. If women became unfree, when and how did they become free? Camilla Power of the Radical Anthropology Group insists that sex played a big role in the human revolution - a taboo subject for the SWP
Breakaway deeply divided from birth
16 Nov 2006
Peter Manson reports on the uneasy alliances within Tommy Sheridan's new party Solidarity
Programmatic masks and transitional fleas
16 Nov 2006
Is Leon Trotsky's Transitional programme the last word when it comes to the Marxist programme? Or does it represent regression in Marxist terms? Jack Conrad argues against Trotskyite economism
Many questions, no answers
16 Nov 2006
Last weekend saw the SWP attempt to win union militants to Respect. Alan Stevens reports on the Organising for Fighting Unions conference
Fuse workers' movement and Marxism
09 Nov 2006
Boris Kagarlitsky looks at the prospects and possibilities for the Russian left
Desperate evasion and sectarianism
09 Nov 2006
A 'republican socialist party' in Britain that eschews Marxism must be a concession to nationalism. Mike Macnair responds to Dave Craig
Campaign for a Marxist Party
09 Nov 2006
Founding principles
Programme and its structure
09 Nov 2006
Why do communists give their programme such importance and go to such pains to develop, guard and enrich it? Jack Conrad begins a short series by examining the background to the CPGB's Draft programme
Structure, organisation and tasks
09 Nov 2006
Resolution 1
Uniting Marxists as Marxists
09 Nov 2006
Jim Moody reports on the launch conference of the Campaign for a Marxist Party
Marxist party - an illusion
02 Nov 2006
In the absence of a world revolutionary party, a national communist party could only be a capitulation to British nationalism, argues Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group
Marxist party - now or never
02 Nov 2006
Mike Macnair writes on this weekend's launch conference of the 'Campaign for a new Marxist party'
Lessons of October
26 Oct 2006
Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group looks at how the Bolsheviks combined illegality and legality
Russia 1917 and the global revolution
26 Oct 2006
What were the conditions that made Russia ripe for revolution? What were the factors that led to its failure? Boris Kagarlitsky , one of Russia's leading Marxists, argues for a dialectical approach in analysing the Soviet Union and resuming the tasks of October