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
The SLP: a party of ‘recomposition’?
19 Sep 1996
Party notes
Back in business
12 Sep 1996
Last week Hugh Torney, a former chief of staff of the Irish National Liberation Army, was shot dead in Lurgan, Co Armagh. Torney was replaced after independently declaring a ceasefire from a Dublin courtroom, where he faced arms charges. He was believed to be behind a series of attacks on the new leadership and its political wing, the Irish Republican Socialist Party. The Weekly Worker spoke to IRSP executive member Paul Carson
Organise the communists
12 Sep 1996
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) continues the debate on the slogan ‘Communist-Labour party’
Democratic illusions
12 Sep 1996
Dave Hulme sees stageism in the RDG’s draft programme
More treachery
12 Sep 1996
From the Workers’ Weekly, paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain, September 10 1926
Indecent call
12 Sep 1996
Around the left
First impressions of our paper
12 Sep 1996
SL Kenning looks at the latest developments in the Socialist Labour Party
Unemployed fightback begins
12 Sep 1996
Transitional forms?
12 Sep 1996
Party notes
Raising our sights
05 Sep 1996
Minimum wage: the fight for what we need
Dark moment in history
05 Sep 1996
review of Jesus Hernandez's How the NKVD framed the POUM (1996, pp27, £1)
Counterrevolution in the revolution
05 Sep 1996
The Spanish revolution and subsequent civil war, which erupted for real 60 years ago in July 1936, is the source of endless controversy. The defeat of the revolution generates an equal amount of anger and sadness. Everyone supported the Spanish revolution and hated Franco. Eddie Ford examines what went wrong
Socialism as therapy
05 Sep 1996
Around the left
In tune with the members
05 Sep 1996
The RMT transport union is currently in dispute with 20 train-operating companies. It has called further one-day strikes and an overtime ban at seven, while members at 13 others are being balloted for action. Alan Pottage is on the 12-strong national executive committee of the RMT, where he sits alongside six other members of the Socialist Labour Party. Peter Manson asked him about the role of the SLP in the disputes
Impressive Achievement
05 Sep 1996
Party notes