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
A 'credible' alternative?
23 Oct 2003
The SWP's majority bloc has no confidence that socialism can win a mass audience, says Mark Fischer
Party notes
23 Oct 2003
Jack Conrad takes a closer look at the new Peace and justice campaign
Control-freakery provokes 'rival' bid
23 Oct 2003
Tina Becker has the latest news from the European Social Forum
Democracy not 'justice'
23 Oct 2003
Do Salma Yaqoob's and George Monbiot's 'Principles of unity' provide a solid basis for a common political programme? Mike Macnair thinks not
Open up London ESF bid
16 Oct 2003
Another week, another secret meeting to discuss the proposal to host the European Social Forum 2004 in London. Tina Becker was there
Class politics not electoralism
16 Oct 2003
It looks as though the Socialist Workers Party's hopes for a cross-class 'peace and justice' coalition to contest next year's European and Greater London Authority elections are alive and well after all. Peter Manson reports
Allure of centrism
16 Oct 2003
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group calls for a republican workers' party
Agreeing to disagree
16 Oct 2003
Sean Matgamna of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty demands to know the politics on which a new workers' party would be based. Is ideological consensus a requirement for unity? Manny Neira argues not
Party notes: Democratic centralism unites and directs
21 Aug 2003
Jack Conrad continues the debate on revolutionary organisation following discussion at the CPGB's Communist University
London's unlikely champion of dissent
01 May 2003
A successful and positive launch of the Greenwich Stop the War Coalition put paid to those pundits who say the anti-war movement has evaporated with the conquest of Iraq, says Marcus Ström
I'm so excited: Socialist Workers Party
01 May 2003
Example to follow?: Scottish Socialist Party
01 May 2003
Bureaucracy and confusion in Berlin
01 May 2003
Over the weekend of April 27-28 some 350 people from 180 organisations attended the latest gathering to prepare for the 2003 European Social Forum in Paris (November 12-16). This time it was the turn of Berlin to act as host. Tina Becker reports
Respectable twin of ANL
01 May 2003
Around the web: Searchlight
A brief history of lying
01 May 2003
If Galloway proves to be innocent, he will join a large club of those who have been maligned by the intelligence services and the press for political reasons. A few examples: