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
Attempt to hijack Euro demo
11 May 2006
The events that took place during Saturday's ESF demonstration deserve to be described in some detail, because the Socialist Workers Party is involved in a blatant attempt to falsify history. For some reason, the Greek Social Forum has decided not to take on the comrades publicly. That leaves the Weekly Worker to fill this important gap
SWP failure within Respect success
11 May 2006
Peter Manson comments on the results of the May 4 local elections
Unity in diversity
11 May 2006
How does the concept of the united front fit into the struggle for a Communist Party? Mike Macnair continues his examination of strategy
Extremely pleasant, but...
11 May 2006
Over 35,000 people attended the fourth European Social Forum in Athens from May 4-7. While the organisation was generally good and the event enjoyable, the open question remains: what is the point of this biennial carnival - apart from deepening divisions amongst the left in the host country? Tina Becker reports
US workers: end of isolation
11 May 2006
View from the US left by Martin Schreader
Against war, for workers' rights
04 May 2006
Yassamine Mather reports on Iranian workers taking to the streets on May Day
What we need
04 May 2006
For the first time in many years there was actually some kind of showing from the trade unions on the London May Day march. Alan Fox reports
Minimal wage
04 May 2006
The WASG and the L.PDS have launched a campaign for a legal minimum wage in Germany - but 8 an hour is not enough
Ben Lewis
04 May 2006
CPGB comrade Ben Lewis stood as a candidate in the elections for the six vacant posts on the WASG national executive
Tactics and principle
04 May 2006
Tina Becker spoke to Sascha Stanicic, spokesperson of the Socialist Party's sister organisation in Germany, Sozialistische Alternative (SAV), about the thorny question of Berlin and the opposition in the WASG
German CWI blocs with right
04 May 2006
It became clear over the weekend that Sozialistische Alternative (SAV), the German section of the Socialist Party's Committee for a Workers' International, has manoeuvred itself into an untenable position over Berlin
Berlin haunts proceedings
04 May 2006
Tina Becker and Ben Lewis report from the April 29-30 conference of the Wahlalternative Arbeit und Soziale Gerechtigkeit (WASG) in Ludwigshafen. Intended to smooth the way for unity with the Linkspartei.PDS, it was marked by discontent, threats and the profound disorientation of the left opposition
Populism at large
27 Apr 2006
The April 25 Tower Hamlets hustings for local election candidates, organised by the Islamic Society of Britain (ISB), was a highly charged affair. Huw Bynon reports
Communist strategy and the party form
27 Apr 2006
Mike Macnair examines the Leninist 'party of a new type' and disentangles its advantages and shortcomings from the necessity of splitting from the Second International
Revolution at the roof of the world
27 Apr 2006
Communists and democrats throughout the world have been inspired by the determined struggles of the masses in Nepal, writes Eddie Ford