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
Clarifying the Arab Spring
27 Jan 2022
Fouad Mami reviews 'The republic of false truths' by Alaa Al-Aswany (Faber and Faber, London 2021, pp464, £12.79)
Pink is the colour
27 Jan 2022
Despite supposedly bringing “feminism and gender perspective to power”, Gabriel Boric does not impress Eddie Ford. What sort of “candidate of the streets” supports laws criminalising street barricades?
No change of line
20 Jan 2022
Mike Macnair responds to Daniel Lazare on BDS, the Israel Jewish working class and the necessity of opposing the witch-hunt
Heroes and villains
20 Jan 2022
Lawrence Parker reviews 'The chronology of revolution: communism, culture, and civil society in twentieth-century Britain' by Ben Harker (University of Toronto Press, 2021, pp376, £63.99)
An uncertain situation
20 Jan 2022
Discounting the danger of Islamic reaction is more than stupid. Paul Demarty looks at the Kazakh uprising and the CSTO intervention
Six sessions of the best
13 Jan 2022
Ollie Hughes and James Harvey report on Winter Communist University 2022, where discussions ranged far and wide
Still no hint of seriousness
13 Jan 2022
The working class, humanity, cannot afford to wait till the next century before dealing with capitalist slumps, war threats and the actuality of ecological breakdown. Jack Conrad replies to Tony Greenstein
Red, young and programmed
06 Jan 2022
Ties van den Bogaard introduces Rood (Red), its struggle against an anti-socialist witch-hunt and its recently adopted programme
Self-declared heretic replies
06 Jan 2022
Tony Greenstein insists that the merging of LAW and LIEN is precisely the ‘twin-track’ approach that Jack Conrad advocates
Disarray over abortion
06 Jan 2022
Anne McShane looks at the right’s assault on abortion in the US, the DSA’s abstentionism and the shameful record of what still passes for the left
Getting BDS and DSA right
16 Dec 2021
Not surprisingly, last week’s article by Daniel Lazare, ‘Taking a pass on Israel’, has caused some considerable controversy. Thankfully, three well-informed comrades have written replies. Needless to say, our sympathies are fully with the critics
Something serious is needed
16 Dec 2021
It is clear that Tony Greenstein has abandoned any pretence of adhering to class politics: that is, the class politics of the working class. Jack Conrad defends the Marxist programme against those who advocate yet another broad-front halfway house
The future that ended
16 Dec 2021
Three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the causes and consequences still elude most of the left, writes Paul Demarty
Fun and punishment
16 Dec 2021
Crazily, the government wants to intensify the cruel and unwinnable ‘war on drugs’. Eddie Ford, on the other hand, wants to call it off and legalise all drugs
Commemoration message
16 Dec 2021
As read out at the December 11 online meeting to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of an exiled Turkish revolutionary leader