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
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
Bucket loads of hypocrisy
26 Jun 1997
Open Polemic’s Bob Smith, former ‘representative’ member of the CPGB, mounts his charger once again
Speaking for the establishment
26 Jun 1997
Party notes
For an open journal
19 Jun 1997
More Scargill threats
19 Jun 1997
Correspondence between the SLP’s acting general secretary and Southwark councillor Ian Driver
SLP militants unbowed by intimidation
19 Jun 1997
Socialist Labour democracy campaign launched
Road to nowhere
19 Jun 1997
Much of the left is now talking about a ‘crisis of expectations’ amongst the working class. But is there any truth to it? Last weekend the CPGB organised a round-table discussion on this, under the heading, ‘Where now for the left?’ Eddie Ford reports