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 arse-end of Pabloism
27 Jun 1996
Party Notes
The ‘luxury’ of openness
20 Jun 1996
The Weekly Worker this week publishes in its entirety a document received via the offices of the Irish Republican Socialist Party. The document, from republican socialist political prisoners in Portlaoise Jail, ‘instructs’ us to apologise for printing an article (‘Historical reality’, Weekly Worker May 30) of which they disapprove. They allege that we were duped by British intelligence into publishing ‘disinformation’
For a Communist-Labour Party
20 Jun 1996
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) debates the way forward for the SLP
Fisc splits over ‘British road’
20 Jun 1996
The Fourth International Supporters Caucus is a highly secret faction, well ensconced in the topmost positions in the SLP. Not content with fronting the anti-communist witch hunt, Fisc decided to provide the apologetic theory necessary to justify Scargill and his draft constitution. For those within Fisc who retain a commitment to revolutionary politics this was a reformist step too far
A factory meeting
20 Jun 1996
From the Workers’ Weekly, paper of the CPGB, June 18 1926
Coordination of general strikes
20 Jun 1996
Resolution of Poder Obrero (Workers Power, Bolivia) and Socialist Labour Party (Paraguay)
Coup d’état defeated in Paraguay
20 Jun 1996
General strike and the left
20 Jun 1996
Workers Power in Bolivia (Poder Obrero) and the Socialist Labour Party in Paraguay report on countries rocked by general strike and the tasks of revolutionaries
Philosophical limitations
20 Jun 1996
Phil Sharpe of the Trotskyist Unity Group makes some initial comments on István Mészáros’s latest work, Beyond Capital (Merlin Press 1995)
Revolutionary faint-hearts
20 Jun 1996
Around the left
Yeltsin squeaks ahead
20 Jun 1996
Unity is strength
20 Jun 1996
Alliance election battle in Scotland
20 Jun 1996
The Scottish Socialist Alliance is fighting its first election on June 27. John Davies of Scottish Militant Labour is standing in the Invergordon ward of the Highlands council. Mary Ward, SLP member in Dundee, spoke to him