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
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
Talking to the Weekly Worker
29 Jan 2004
Various figures from across the left and in Respect speak to the Weekly Worker on the official foundation of the unity coalition
Socialism: the final shibboleth
29 Jan 2004
Manny Neira attended Sunday's Respect launch. He reflects on soul music, and soul selling
No respect for equality
29 Jan 2004
Jack Conrad on the refusal of Respect to have its MP's on a workers wage thanks to the SWP
Neither fish nor fowl
29 Jan 2004
The unity coalition does not know whether it wants to be a movement or a party, argues Steve Freeman of the Revolutionary Democratic Group
John Rees airbrushes out history
29 Jan 2004
Rees' speech, while full of Panglossian optimism about the big time for the left (read, for the SWP), was actually an epitaph for the SA. Marcus Ström was there
Party and paper split
22 Jan 2004
Blairism and the delabourisation of Labour threw much of the revolutionary left into crisis, the CPB is only now belatedly following, writes Alan Rees
Bureaucratic grip tightens
22 Jan 2004
The London Mayor is in control of preparations for the European Social Forum. Tina Becker reports
Galloway's nationalist gaffe
22 Jan 2004
Cameron Richards reports on the Cardiff meeting of the unity coalition
Britain at the crossroads
22 Jan 2004
The Democracy Platform of the Socialist Alliance has issued an alternative declaration for Respect
Socialism, reform and revolution
22 Jan 2004
Chris Jones of the Revolutionary Democratic Group looks at the role of class struggle in shaping the politics of the 21st century
Left facing both ways
22 Jan 2004
The Socialist Alliance council voted overwhelmingly to engage with the RESPECT unity coalition, reports Peter Manson
Respect and opportunism
22 Jan 2004
Despite the failure of the SA the party question has not gone away: it is simply posed anew in the more difficult subjective conditions of Respect, writes Jack Conrad
Deep factional roots
15 Jan 2004
The special congress of the Mornign Star/CPB will decide whether the organisation will opt for an electoral coalition with other trends on the left, or doggedly remain tied to the auto-Labourism of its British road to socialism programme. Alan Rees takes a look