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
Dispelling the Kautsky myths
06 Mar 2020
Ben Lewis introduces his recently published Karl Kautsky on democracy and republicanism. This article is based on a talk he gave to the March 1 London Communist Forum.
Still in denial
06 Mar 2020
It is all very well for the SWP to condemn Weinstein, writes Paul Demarty, but what about the legacy of its own rape scandal?
The supreme issue
29 Feb 2020
Fight for unity
23 Feb 2020
Crooked formulations
23 Feb 2020
No human is illegal, says the Morning Star. But, notes Eddie Ford, the paper goes on to argue that not all humans should be legal.
Stalin’s ‘united front’ party
13 Feb 2020
The treacherous role of the Tudeh Party after the 1979 revolution is well known. In the first of two articles, Yassamine Mather shows how the origins of its opportunism were bound up with the diplomatic interests of the Soviet Union.
October shakes the British left
13 Feb 2020
George’s marvellous medicine
13 Feb 2020
The pro-Brexit Workers Party is a strange amalgam. But asks Paul Demarty, can it make an impact?
Two alternatives
09 Feb 2020
James Marshall discusses the clear choice facing the Sheffield conference of the Labour left.
An exercise in futility
31 Jan 2020
For the leadership of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign it as though the last four years of ‘anti-Semitism’ smears and the defeat of Jeremy Corbyn had not happened. Tony Greenstein reports on the AGM.
Lessons of Corbynism’s defeat
24 Jan 2020
How to overcome the impediments to communist consciousness? Rex Dunn takes issue with Mike Macnair.
Our attitude to Europe
09 Jan 2020
A long-standing member of the Communist Party of Britain has tried to start an open debate using the ‘normal channels’. Though this letter was sent to the CPB, the Morning Star and Communist Review in December 2019, it has neither been printed not even acknowledged
The great moving right show
09 Jan 2020
Characterising the Johnson government as ‘fascist’ provides some sections of the left with the excuse they need to collapse into broad frontism and class collaborationism, Mike Macnair presents his case
Not much to say
19 Dec 2019
Peter Manson is saddened, but not surprised, by the extraordinarily low level of what passes for debate.
Contradictory impasse
12 Dec 2019
Peter Manson reports on the SACP’s December 9-12 special national congress.