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
The tipping point
07 Sep 2006
Under the leadership of John Rees and Alex Callinicos, the International Socialist Tendency has swung violently to the right over the last year or two. That has directly affected the left in Zimbabwe. Here is a country ruled by gangsters, paralysed by successive opposition failures and undergoing a horrendous and seemingly never ending socioeconomic collapse. Despairing at the possibilityof organising a working class-led revolution against the Zanu-PFregime, some are now crudely mimicking the rainbow politics of Respect. Personifying this shift is Briggs Bomba (picture). A year ago he proudly billed himself as the international coordinator of the International Socialist Organisation (the IST's Zimbabwean affiliate). Now he modestly describes himself as "a social justice activist" and calls for what amounts to a popular front
In revealing company
07 Sep 2006
Jack Conrad draws parallels between 'proletarian nationalism' and the SSP and Solidarity in Scotland today
SSP crisis: rebuild on socialist principle
07 Sep 2006
Statement of the Workers' Unity platform
Popular nails in the 'official' coffin
31 Aug 2006
Lawrence Parker reviews Kevin Morgan's Bolshevism and the British left part 1: 'Labour legends and Russian gold', Lawrence and Wishart, 2006, pp320, £18.99
Origins of 'Leninism'
31 Aug 2006
Mike Macnair reviews Lars T Lih's Lenin rediscovered: What is to be done? in context Brill, 2006, pp867, â¬129
The determination of revolution
31 Aug 2006
Jack Conrad discusses strategy and contrasts Scottish national socialism with the communist demand for national self-determination
McCombes or Sheridan, the problem is still nationalism
31 Aug 2006
Peter Manson comments on the split of the Scottish Socialist Party
After the court victory, civil war begins in earnest
10 Aug 2006
Peter Manson comments on what awaits the Scottish Socialist Party in the aftermath of Tommy Sheridan's court victory
What went wrong?
10 Aug 2006
The SSP went into court without any political plan, writes Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group
Struggle must begin afresh
10 Aug 2006
Nick Rogers, a member of the SSP Workers Unity platform, gives his view on the crisis
Prostitution policy and the NOTW smears
10 Aug 2006
Mike Macnair remembers the discussion in the SSP over the question of prostitution
Sheridan wins first round
10 Aug 2006
Mike Macnair discusses some of the legal implications of the case and argues that socialists should not use the bourgeois press to fight out their differences
Fight on two fronts
10 Aug 2006
July 29 saw the official launch of the election campaign for the September 17 Berlin regional elections, where the local WASG (Electoral Initiative for Labour and Social Justice) and the governing Linkspartei.PDS are to stand against each other. Ben Lewis reports from Germany
What sort of 'Marxist party'?
03 Aug 2006
A new formation must avoid from the start all the failings of the Trotskyist sects, writes Mike Macnair
Keeping silent over 'offensive' film
03 Aug 2006
Huw Bynon reports on the protests surrounding the film version of Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane - and wonders why Respect and the Socialist Workers Party will not comment