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
Learning from defeat
12 Jan 2006
Panayotis Yulis is a representative of the Network for Political and Social Rights in Greece (Epohi), which works with immigrants and political prisoners. He is a member of the Greek Social Forum and on the organising committee for the ESF in Athens
Dying on its feet
12 Jan 2006
Around 150 people gathered in the Konferenzhaus in Vienna to prepare for the next European Social Forum, which will take place in Athens on May 4-7 2006. Rifondazione Comunista's turn to government hung over the event like a Damocles sword - together with an unwillingness to take any decisive steps forward. Tina Becker fears that we might be witnessing the beginning of the end of the ESF as a vehicle for international cooperation
Why I intend to stand
05 Jan 2006
The SWP's John Molyneux explains why he is standing against the Central Committee's recommended slate
Reply to Molyneux
05 Jan 2006
The SWP's Central Committee responds to the troublesome John Molyneux
Church and state against women's rights
05 Jan 2006
Will Italy's Rifondazione Comunista risk upsetting their coalition partners-to-be by defending women's rights? Anne Mc Shane reports from the struggle over abortion rights in Italy
A loyal rebel
05 Jan 2006
On the eve of the Socialist Workers Party's annual conference this weekend (January 7-8), SW Kenning looks at what is going on behind the scenes and the official claims of one magnificent success leading to another
Bonapartism or social democracy?
05 Jan 2006
Paul Hampton of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty replies to Nick Rogers and upholds what he calls 'independent working class politics'
We are better than them!
15 Dec 2005
Peter Manson reports from last Saturday's 'international peace confernce' in London, which was more of a rally - and gave no answers as to what the anti-war movement should be doing next
Two-ward timid token
15 Dec 2005
Stan Keable attended the latest meeting of Respect West London - and was surprised by the pessimistic mood of the comrades
Losing the plot
15 Dec 2005
The latest meeting of Respect Hackney underlined the profound crisis of the comrades in the Socialist Workers Party over their role in Respect - they either ignore oppositional voices or they shout them down. Tina Becker reports
Building the new
15 Dec 2005
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group looks at the newly established Socialist Alliance
Chávez and the AWL
15 Dec 2005
Nick Rogers replies to Paul Hampton from the Alliance of Workers' Liberty
One-dimensional Marxism and proposition one
15 Dec 2005
Why does the CPGB accuse the Socialist Workers Party of economism? Jack Conrad explains with a look at the 'where we stand column' in Socialist Worker and the comrades' attitude to nature, ecology and global warming
No to World Trade Organisation
08 Dec 2005
Farooq Tariq (general secretary Labour Party Pakistan) reports about the mass protests against the WTO in Pakistan
Opposition party or coalition partner?
08 Dec 2005
Trouble is brewing in the German Linkspartei. The Berlin regional congress of Wahlalternative (WASG) has just voted against the 'cooperation agreement', which maps out the unification process with the Party of Democratic Socialism (now renamed Linkspartei.PDS). WASG comrades in Berlin also want to stand separately in the 2006 local elections - refusing a joint candidature with the Linkspartei.PDS, which is part of the Berlin government. Yet, writes Tina Becker, Linksruck, the German section of the SWP, has joined forces with the WASG leadership in criticising this decision