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
Consistent Bolshevik message
07 Jan 2021
Did Lenin’s April theses lead to a complete change of policy? Lars T Lih continues his series, arguing that the opposite is the case
Meaningful debate absent
07 Jan 2021
Why are Socialist Workers Party members incapable of making serious contributions? Peter Manson looks at the third and final internal bulletin
SCOTLAND SUPPLEMENT III - Separatism, federalism, centralism
17 Dec 2020
Breaking apart existing states is not the road to socialism, but the road to defeat, writes Jack Conrad
Principle, not dogma
17 Dec 2020
No one can discredit Marxism better than ‘Marxists’. Mike Macnair responds to criticisms from Gerry Downing and Levi Rafael
One-liners
17 Dec 2020
Lev Kamenev in March-April 1917
A curious case
17 Dec 2020
Were the Bolsheviks under the leadership of Kamenev supporters of the Provisional Government and hostile to soviet power? Lars T Lih puts the story straight
Dull echo chamber
03 Dec 2020
Genuine debate is something the central committee has long tried to avoid. The end result is a comatosed membership. Peter Manson reviews the second pre-conference bulletin
Youth section will win
26 Nov 2020
The political battle cleaving the Socialist Party has dramatically intensified. Emil Jacobs reports
Supplement
19 Nov 2020
Jonah Martell sets out twelve proposals to transform the Democratic Socialists of America
Bureaucratic control-freakery
12 Nov 2020
The leadership of the Socialist Party is determined to enter a coalition with bourgeois parties and gain well rewarded ministerial portfolios for a few tops. Those who oppose this disastrous line are being expelled, but not silenced. Emil Jacobs reports
Going nowhere fast
05 Nov 2020
Peter Manson lifts the lid on mindless activity, an arid internal life and leadership control-freakery
Smugglers and snakeheads
29 Oct 2020
Advocating non-racist immigration controls not only means lining up with national chauvinism, argues Eddie Ford. It is also self-defeating
Break with managerialism
29 Oct 2020
Martin Thomas’s response to Neil Faulkner misuses history to defend the bankrupt model of confessional sects, argues Mike Macnair
No end in sight
29 Oct 2020
Will a Biden victory break the far-right wave? Paul Demarty thinks the Covid-19 economic downturn will fuel irrationality
Overcoming group identity
22 Oct 2020
Marc Mulholland evaluates Karl Kautsky’s thesis on the nomadic origin of classes and the state