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
After the fuel blockades
28 Sep 2000
Blair's black September
Fighting to win
28 Sep 2000
Greg Tucker, secretary of the LSA and a member of the International Socialist Group, looks forward to the general election and uniting all revolutionaries into one organisation
Anger everywhere
21 Sep 2000
Left misreads Europe fuel protests
Hackney Wick by-election
21 Sep 2000
Help needed
Pat Strong of the Socialist Party
21 Sep 2000
Breaking up the SA
Simon Harvey of the SLP
21 Sep 2000
Brar - airbrushed out
Petrol protests: Jacobin rage
14 Sep 2000
New Labour confronts its gravest crisis. There can be no doubting the seriousness of the situation triggered by the current wave of protests. Not only have petrol pumps run dry, but the government has assumed emergency powers to ensure deliveries of fuel...
Theoretically disabled polemic
14 Sep 2000
Peter Taaffe Cuba - socialism and democracy CWI Publications, London 2000, pp124, £4.99
LSA reports
14 Sep 2000
Tactical debates
SWP: London model 'a mistake'
07 Sep 2000
Neither London nor Coventry, but Greater Manchester. This might have been the motto of the annual general meeting, on September 2, of the Greater Manchester Socialist Alliance. A new structure, for the period leading up to the next parliamentary general election, was adopted by the 70-strong gathering. This consists of a steering committee comprising five officers and five other members, wholly elected by the AGM, which reports to and is accountable to monthly general membership meetings of the regional GMSA. There are, as yet, no locally based SAs within the Greater Manchester region.
Against Taaffe
07 Sep 2000
A split between the Scottish Socialist Party and the Socialist Party in England and Wales has long been on the cards. Peter Taaffe already has his own preferred faction in Dundee around Phil Stott. But recently the Sheridan-McCombes-Curran SSP majority has gone on the offensive, in particular by highlighting the extremely backward, not to say back-stabbing, role of SPEW in the London Socialist Alliance. As can be seen from Frances Curran's article taken from May's Committee for Workers International Members Bulletin, written on behalf of the political committee in Scotland, Taaffe is on very weak ground. His executive committee's reply feebly claimed that her article "seems to have" been based "on reports of other hostile organisations", above all the Weekly Worker, which purportedly publishes "malicious fantasy from beginning to end"
Connolly versus Maclean
07 Sep 2000
LSA: different approaches aired
07 Sep 2000
Tied vote: CPGB's indirect and inclusive democracy; SWP's direct elections
All-UK challenge
15 Jun 2000
Planting the flag
15 Jun 2000
Working class fighter takes on New Labour Weyman Bennett is our London Socialist Alliance candidate for Tottenham in the June 22 parliamentary by-election. Peter Manson spoke to him