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
Hands off our territory
09 Nov 2000
This report on the September 30 Socialist Alliance conference, issued by the Socialist Party executive committee to its branches, attempts to justify the SP's sectarian hostility to left unity and the SA project
Sectarian hypocrisy
09 Nov 2000
Harry Paterson, who is in the process of being expelled from the Socialist Party, condemns the SP's counterposing of its 'new mass workers' party' to the reality of the Socialist Alliance
Taking ourselves seriously
09 Nov 2000
CPGB speaking tour - 'The Socialist Alliance and the fight for a new workers' party'. Speaker: Jack Conrad
CPGB and revolutionary defeatism
09 Nov 2000
Mark Fischer has developed an interesting analysis of revolutionary defeatism (Weekly Worker October 12). Unfortunately, his approach seems to be that there is only one principled and monolithic approach to the question. In actuality the Marxist approach has undergone constant change and modification. Crucially there has been a continual tension between the possibly competing conceptions of defeatism and defencism.
Socialist Alliances
09 Nov 2000
Hackney Council bankrupt
From poll tax glory to sectarian oblivion
02 Nov 2000
Why has the Socialist Party in England and Wales lost 95% of its membership? Why has Scotland declared UDI and the Liverpool organisation liquidated itself? Why is the SP behaving in such an irrational and self-destructive manner towards the Socialist Alliance? Harry Paterson, who is currently appealing against his expulsion from the Socialist Party, looks at the reasons behind the SP's crisis
One step forward, two steps back
02 Nov 2000
The annual general meeting of the Republican Communist Network, held in Edinburgh on October 28, unanimously agreed to "oppose all forms of nationalism" - and then went on to elect an effective nationalist majority onto the editorial board of its quarterly journal, Republican Communist.
SA roundup
02 Nov 2000
Bedfordshire First step taken
Republican Communist Network
02 Nov 2000
Armstrong tactics Steve Freeman of the Revolutionary Democratic Group gives his view of the October 28 conference
Nellist hides as SWP is purged
26 Oct 2000
The leadership of the Leeds Left Alliance - an affiliate of the Socialist Alliance - has won its rigged postal ballot banning the Socialist Workers Party.
Chameleon Ken's union-basher
26 Oct 2000
Sixty-day deadline nears
26 Oct 2000
Petty bourgeois revolt and the politics of Blairism
SA roundup
26 Oct 2000
Greater Manchester Rally call
Socialist Party sabotage
19 Oct 2000
Call for unity
19 Oct 2000
Andy Holder is England's first self-declared Socialist Alliance councillor, representing a ward in Burnley, Lancashire. He spoke to Peter Manson What is your background in politics?