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
Left nationalists at the crossroads
09 Mar 2006
A much divided Scottish Socialist Party held its annual conference in Dundee on March 4-5. Nick Rogers was there
Shades of Stalinism
02 Mar 2006
It is impossible not to observe a distinct taint of Stalinism in the reaction of the Socialist Workers Party to the recent controversy over the Danish cartoons, writes Lawrence Parker. This raises an ominous question mark over the SWP's ability to constructively engage with cultural production
Allying with the nationalists
02 Mar 2006
Nick Rogers looks at the key issue before this weekend's SSP annual conference
How many more careerists?
02 Mar 2006
In Tower Hamlets, a prospective local elections candidate has resigned from Respect. Peter Manson reports
Britain's drystone wall
02 Mar 2006
Can the British constitution be reformed? Not without mass political action by the working class, argues Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group
Revolutionary strategy and Marxist conclusions
23 Feb 2006
In the second in a series of articles, Mike Macnair continues his examination of right-moving Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire theorists and the response of the SWP's Alex Callinicos
Censorship rally
23 Feb 2006
Yvonne Ridley
SWP 'racism' fig leaf
23 Feb 2006
The furore following the Danish cartoons has not subsided, writes Peter Manson. But the position of many islamic groups - backed up by the Socialist Workers Party - plays into the hands of islamophobes
Censorship rally
23 Feb 2006
Hyperbole and irrationality were the order of the day at Respect's London rally, reports Mark Fischer
Floundering towards Eurocommunism
16 Feb 2006
While Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire theorists flounder towards Eurocommunism, the SWP's Alex Callinicos can only answer them with evasion. In the first of two articles, Mike Macnair discusses revolutionary strategy
Self-determination and the British-Irish
16 Feb 2006
Jack Conrad argues in defence of thesis 19
SWP and freedom of speech
16 Feb 2006
Michelle Euston reports on the Socialist Workers Party's rally 'Socialists and the Movement' in London, while Ted North attended the event in Sheffield
Respect after George Galloway's celebrity bid
16 Feb 2006
What will happen to Respect when George Galloway "retires from politics" in order to "speak, write, read, relax, love"? Ian Mahoney reports
Salma Yaqoob's motion to Respect national council
09 Feb 2006
Points 2a through to 2d were passed
Left merger still on hold
09 Feb 2006
"An absurd fratricidal war" - this is how the political magazine Der Spiegel describes the current difficulties hampering the creation of a new left party in Germany. But the root of the dispute is not absurd at all, says Tina Becker: it centres on the important question of government participation. By employing a range of bureaucratic manoeuvres, the WASG leadership is now trying to silence its own opposition that demands the party take a principled stand against accepting ministerial posts - while the SWP's German section sides with the right