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
What the French left says
10 Nov 2005
Parti Communiste Français
Meat and drink
10 Nov 2005
Ted North reports from a meeting of University of Sheffield Respect Society, which was addressed by George Galloway
Rees comes out for Blair's laws
29 Sep 2005
Leaders of the Socialist Worker Party are galloping to the right at a breathtaking pace: John Rees supports the religious hatred laws, reports Mark Fischer
Vote for class independence
28 Apr 2005
Mike Macnair revisits the question of the popular front
Strikingly modern
31 Mar 2005
On the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto: Jack Conrad of the Communist Party of Great Britain
A primary programmatic document
31 Mar 2005
On the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto: Mercan Koklu of the Communist Party of Turkey
The spectre of communism
31 Mar 2005
On December 12 of last year, the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP) organised a joint day school on the significance of the Communist manifesto of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. It was held in the apt venue of the Marx Memorial Library in London and the majority of the 60 or so present were from the CPGB and TKP.
Declining capitalism
31 Mar 2005
On the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Communist Manifesto: Hillel Ticktin, editor of Critique
Control the bureaucrats
11 Nov 2004
What are the lessons of Lenin's 1917 pamphlet State and revolution? Not the need for a 'commune state', argues Mike Macnair, but the need for representatives to be made accountable
Imperialism versus internationalism
12 Aug 2004
In this concluding article, Mike Macnair argues that our most powerful enemy is the imperialist state. That is why communists are revolutionary defeatists
Imperialism lives on
05 Aug 2004
In the second of a short series of articles, Mike Macnair examines the role of the state in the global order and looks at alternatives to the 'imperialism of free trade' theory
Economism and the necessity of programme
05 Aug 2004
Jack Conrad argues that the left is crippled by its flattery of economic struggles - and the constant downplaying of the primacy of the political
AWL, Iraq and 'new imperialism'
29 Jul 2004
Mike Macnair argues that the failure of the AWL to call for an immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq is a symptom of their flawed analysis of imperialism
Respecting programme
05 Feb 2004
Jack Conrad contrasts the approach of the Bolsheviks to the tawdry attempts at self-justification by the opportunists in Respect
Bureaucratic fist tightens
05 Feb 2004
Tina Becker reports that the ESF is in great danger of being totally taken over by Ken Livingstone - with the full support of his little helpers in the Socialist Workers Party