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
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.
Lambeth
21 Jun 2001
Shenanigans sour meeting
Stalin Society v CPGB
21 Jun 2001
What was the USSR?
Conservative disarray
21 Jun 2001
Can the Tories reinvent themselves? Michael Malkin investigates
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
Nottingham
14 Jun 2001
Canvassing everywhere
General election 2001 - left results
14 Jun 2001
Scargillite spin
14 Jun 2001
SLP statement, Friday June 8