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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

Labour day in Detroit

03 Jul 1997

Socialist Labour Party ‘voided’ member and Unison activist Barry Biddulph reports on workers struggle against the odds in the USA

Socialist Labour’s Blairites

03 Jul 1997

John Stone of the Liaison Committee of Militants for a Revolutionary Communist International and former member of the League for a Revolutionary Communist International condemns the sectarian methods of SLA

A single step forward

03 Jul 1997

The report of the CPGB-organised discussion around the idea of a ‘crisis of expectations’ (see ‘Road to nowhere’ Weekly Worker June 19) has provoked two responses

Dismissing the national question

03 Jul 1997

Around the left

Scargill rubs it in ...

03 Jul 1997

Party notes

Scargill: ‘Keep quiet or get out’

03 Jul 1997

Once again Arthur Scargill lays down the law against democracy in the SLP - this time in his reply to Martin Wicks. The comrade had forwarded him partisan suggestions for extending democracy in the SLP. The document he sent was signed by a number of SLP comrades and published in the Weekly Worker (June 12)

Workers’ unity is central principle

26 Jun 1997

Simon Harvey: SLP news and comment

Marxist Bulletin joins witch hunt

26 Jun 1997

An expelled member of Vauxhall CSLP and supporter of the Marxist Bulletin, Alan Gibson, tries to save himself by condemning his former comrades

Call to SWP minority - ‘Fight openly’

26 Jun 1997

Following the Socialist Workers Party’s decision to contest the Irish general election (see Weekly Worker June 12), a change in policy in Britain too now looks to be just a matter of time. For some time a minority of the SWP leadership, particularly Chris Harman, have been arguing for the organisation to stand its own candidates in elections, and occasionally veiled references to the internal opposition on the question have surfaced in the organisation’s journals. Tom Delargy was expelled from the SWP in 1987 for opposing the leadership and is now active in the Scottish Socialist Alliance. Below we reproduce extracts from the letter he sent to Socialist Worker just before the general election, in which he anticipates a change in line and calls on the organisation to drop its sectarian approach to the rest of the left

Drop the dead donkey

26 Jun 1997

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group discusses why he is against a “Duma with full powers”

Climate of mistrust

26 Jun 1997

Nick Wrack resigned as editor of Militant shortly before a special conference of Militant Labour voted to change the organisation’s name to ‘Socialist Party’ at the end of last year. His appearance at the June meeting of the SP’s National Committee caused some surprise, as many comrades were under the impression that he had stood down from that body too. His letter of resignation, reproduced here, has been circulating unofficially within the organisation. It demonstrates that the SP still has a long way to go to achieve the openness necessary in a democratic workers’ party

The situation in Russia

26 Jun 1997

From 'The Call', paper of the Britsih Socialist Party, June 21 1917

Lining up with the establishment

26 Jun 1997

Around the left

Antithesis of communism

26 Jun 1997

Pol Pot and the ‘killing fields’ of Kampuchea are meant to be a lesson in the evils of communism - or so we are told. Eddie Ford points to the true nature of the Khmer Rouge and what it really represented

Signing up for democracy

26 Jun 1997

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