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
Gloves come off
01 May 2003
By coming after George Galloway, the bourgeois media is trying to tarnish the whole anti-war movement, says Manny Neira
Anatomy of the hard left
01 May 2003
For the tens of thousands of people mobilised against the war on Iraq who have been drawn towards political action for the first time, the myriad of groups on the far left must seem bewildering. Ian Mahoney supplies a rough guide to a few of the more prominent
Could have been a contender: Socialist Party
01 May 2003
Going camping: Alliance for Workers' Liberty
01 May 2003
Pipe and slippers: International Socialist Group
01 May 2003
Australian echoes
01 May 2003
As in Britain, the Australian Socialist Alliance has been paralysed by the stubborn determination of one group in particular to prevent the alliance becoming a party.Dave Riley, a member of the Australian SA Non-Aligned Caucus, gives his view on the type of party it should become
Movement needs openness
01 May 2003
Andrew Murray and Lindsay German, who effectively form the leadership of the Stop the War Coalition, put the movement in a bad political light this week when they acted as dyed-in-the-wool bureaucrats determined to stifle openness, accountability and democracy, reports Anne Mc Shane
Slogan wars
01 May 2003
Jack Conrad discusses the problems of the left when it comes to opposition to an attack on Iraq
What is 'sectarianism'?
01 May 2003
A day of celebration and hope
01 May 2003
Mary Godwin takes a look at the history of May Day
Darwinism and Marxism
19 Dec 2002
Mike Macnair reviews The structure of evolutionary theory by Stephen Jay Gould (Belknap/Harvard University Press, 2002, pp1,433)
For genuine democratic centralism
11 Jul 2002
"Through the fullest, most open debate we seek to achieve unity in action and a common world outlook." This statement appears in the third paragraph of the revised 'What we fight for' column. John Pearson disagrees with the party majority.
A reply to comrades
20 Jun 2002
Last week's paper carried a letter from the Communist Struggle group in the Ukraine, suggesting that our two organisations have the possibility of "fruitful cooperation"
Programme and party
07 Feb 2002
The SWP's main problem is that it is "not big enough", says Paul Foot. Size isn't everything, reckons Mark Fischer
For a paper and partyism
29 Nov 2001
Communists has always argued that within the Socialist Alliance there lies a compelling logic towards the formation of a party.