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
Stalinist atmosphere reigns
08 Dec 2005
Our republication of a mildly critical piece from the Socialist Workers Party's Pre-conference bulletin seems to have caused a furious row inside the SWP - at least judging by the reaction of its author, Dave Crouch. Peter Manson reports
Cannonites and the way of the dodo
08 Dec 2005
Despite protests to the contrary, the Australian Socialist Alliance is dead, argues Marcus Ström. The Democratic Socialist Perspective has not broken from its old ways. On the contrary, it shares the same method as the SWP, which led to the closing down of the Socialist Alliance in England and Wales
Up to the top of the hill
08 Dec 2005
The Socialist Worker Party generals have failed the anti-war movement, says Eddie Ford, who looks forward to the December 10 Peace Conference in London
Working class project for Spanish America
01 Dec 2005
Nick Rogers looks at the contradictions in the Bolivarian revolution and calls for the building of workers' unity across the continent to defend and extend the gains won in Venezuela
DSP split over future
01 Dec 2005
Greg Adler, former national executive member of the Australian Socialist Alliance, looks at the dispute within Democratic Socialist Perspective, the dominant SA group
A world to save! A world to win!
01 Dec 2005
Jack Conrad looks at climate change and the programme that communists should advance
Socialist Worker: is it doing its job?
24 Nov 2005
Dave Crouch expresses disquiet over the relaunched SWP paper
United democratic opposition needed
24 Nov 2005
Principled communists and socialists should start working together in order to combat accustions of islamophobia and treachery, says Anne Mc Shane
Rightist liquidation threatens
24 Nov 2005
Ian Mahoney reviews the SWP's Pre-conference bulletin
Bizarre, upside-down politics
24 Nov 2005
Peter Tatchell responds to the implied SWP charge of racism and islamophobia against him and Outrage
A dead parrot - not quite
24 Nov 2005
Non-aligned Respect member Sean Thompson expresses his fear that the project is being killed by SWP control-freakery
Gay rights 'shibboleth'
24 Nov 2005
Was it just an oversight that gay and lesbian rights did not feature in Respect's election manifestio? Apparently not, as the debate at conference showed. Peter Manson reports
A strange amalgam
24 Nov 2005
Respect's second annual conference took place over the weekend of November 19-20. But what is Respect, asks Peter Manson - a party or coalition? In fact it is a chimera, a multi-headed beast which is regularly redefined by its leaders according to needs and circumstances
Decision time for SWP
17 Nov 2005
The Socialist Workers Party is still refusing to take responsibility for two of their members who voted for the scandalous pension deal in the PCSU: Martin John has resigned from the party and no action has been taken against Sue Bond. Lee Rock, national secretary of the PCSU Socialist Caucus, reports
We're small but we're back
17 Nov 2005
Pete McLaren and Steve Freeman report on a meeting to revive the Socialist Alliance. Both are officers in the new formation