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
Haringey
21 Jun 2001
Like a hole in the head?
Future party structure
21 Jun 2001
This document was circulated by the Socialist Workers Party leadership just before the election. Its significance is obvious. SWP branches are to be fused into the Socialist Alliance. The old routine, it is now acknowledged, did not train the membership - it isolated them. We are, though, presented with a paradoxical half-way house. The SWP has half-broken with its past, but only half-embraced the future. It is the main force blocking moves to put the Socialist Alliance onto a proper footing as a democratic party equipped with a frequent political paper
Catalyst for regeneration
21 Jun 2001
Pete Radcliff, member of the Alliance for Workers? Liberty and Socialist Alliance candidate for Nottingham East, achieved an excellent result. Sam Metcalf asked him about the general election and the prospects for deeper unity
After Gothenburg
21 Jun 2001
It is a shocking image. A 19-year-old protester taunts police ranks during the anti-capitalist actions in Gothenburg on June 15. One policeman draws a gun and the young man turns to scramble to safety. He is apparently shot in the back. As the bullet thuds into him, his face contorts with shock and terrible pain. Moments later, we see him laid out on the concrete with anxious comrades huddled over him. For a moment, the camera picks up a shot of his naked stomach, a small, bloody bullet wound stands out vividly on his flesh.
?Official? complacency comes under fire
14 Jun 2001
The People?s Press Printing Society, the cooperative which owns the Morning Star, held its 56th annual general meeting in four venues - Glasgow, Manchester, Cardiff and London - over June 8-11. Stan Keable attended the London session on June 11
Scargillite spin
14 Jun 2001
SLP statement, Friday June 8
Nottingham
14 Jun 2001
Canvassing everywhere
General election 2001 - left results
14 Jun 2001
Election sees left advance
14 Jun 2001
The results of the Socialist Alliance and Scottish Socialist Party may have been disappointing, argues Peter Manson, but the campaign represented a real gain
General election 2001 - left results
14 Jun 2001
General election 2001 - left results
14 Jun 2001
General election 2001 - left results
14 Jun 2001
Labour can?t be wished away
14 Jun 2001
?Diane Abbott says she supports the priority pledges of the Socialist Alliance,? said comrade Anne Mc Shane in an all-London CPGB meeting a few days after the general election. ?OK, if that?s so, we should now hold her to account. We should openly proclaim that we support her, that she is in part our SA MP and seek to develop an ongoing deeper political relationship. How would Tony Blair feel about having an SA fifth column in the ranks of his party??
Greenwich and Woolwich
07 Jun 2001
New beginning
Nottingham
07 Jun 2001
Real work starts now