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 biters bitten
14 Apr 2022
James Harvey of Labour Party Marxists asks why the AWL has been proscribed when it has given such unstinting service to the right in promoting the ‘anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism’ big lie
SUPPLEMENT: Imperialism and the state (Part III)
07 Apr 2022
Capitalism produces huge wealth and huge inequalities, both of which play a role in recurring crises
Resistance to war fever
07 Apr 2022
Amidst the suffocating establishment consensus, Toby Abse welcomes the relatively principled position taken by much of the Italian left
Alex’s greater friend
07 Apr 2022
The SWP is clearly motivated by opportunist considerations, not least the fall-out from the Martin Smith rape scandal. We do not owe politeness to renegades, argues Paul Demarty
Stay, fight, win
31 Mar 2022
What is going on in the Democratic Socialists of America? Charlie Frank explains the conflict over BDS which is dividing left and right
Next step forward
31 Mar 2022
While the Socialist Party has imploded, new alternatives are emerging. Andries Stroper of the SP’s Communist Platform reports on the recent local elections
Peace-loving liberals for war
31 Mar 2022
The rhetoric of the anti-war movement has been coopted by the war party in the west, argues Paul Demarty
SUPPLEMENT: Imperialism and the state (Part II)
24 Mar 2022
The capitalist state is a form of joint-stock operation. It is, in origin, a joint venture of the bourgeois revolutionaries
Taking a principled position
24 Mar 2022
Yassamine Mather takes to task the left in the Middle East and north Africa over Nato and Russia’s invasion
A toxic operation
24 Mar 2022
Paul Houston shines a light on the murky origins of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign
SUPPLEMENT: Imperialism and the state (Part I)
17 Mar 2022
Early, not late, capitalism generated imperialism, and capitalism without the state is impossible
Drawing clear lines on Ukraine
17 Mar 2022
The war is not just about Russia and Ukraine. Muriel Green reports on the CPGB’s March 12 online members’ meeting
Working women find a voice
10 Mar 2022
Anne McShane looks at 'Rabotnitsa', first published by the Bolsheviks on February 23 1914 to mark International Women’s Day
Four anti-war nos
10 Mar 2022
Daniel Lazare welcomes the refusal of the DSA’s international committee to go along with the Democrats’ warmongering
Away with comforting delusions
10 Mar 2022
‘Official communism’ is bitterly divided over the Ukraine war. Paul Demarty traces the battle lines back to their origins