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
What will be left?
20 Jun 2019
The split in the Committee for a Workers’ International ought to put paid to its delusions of grandeur, writes Paul Demarty
Fiasco nears conclusion
13 Jun 2019
Peter Taaffe’s split-mongering shows that loyalty to him is the yardstick of orthodoxy in his ‘international’, argues Paul Demarty
Silent treatment
30 May 2019
The failure of some left groups to back the Labour Party is the fruit of deep-rooted problems in method, argues Paul Demarty
Negations of democratic centralism
30 May 2019
Mike Macnair completes his series of articles dealing with the issues raised by the collapse of the US International Socialist Organization
Neither kings nor bureaucrats
23 May 2019
US author and political broadcaster Suzi Weissman reports on the miraculous organisation of a conference on Leon Trotsky, which took place in Havana
Take a class stand
23 May 2019
Peter Manson condemns leftwing traitors - both of the open kind and the silent kind
Pointer to disillusionment
16 May 2019
ANC support continues to drop, writes Peter Manson, but the main beneficiary is the black nationalist EFF
Dashing of a dream
09 May 2019
Michael Roberts provides the political and economic background to the general election in South Africa
Commitment to orderly progress
09 May 2019
Jim Creegan argues, in his second and concluding article, that while Karl Kautsky’s writings contained insights, his entire political career can only serve as a negative example. We intend to carry a rejoinder in the near future
Steady rightward trajectory
02 May 2019
Responding to a flurry of debate, US comrade Jim Creegan gives his view on the evolution of Karl Kautsky in the first of a two-part article
Anti-racism and ‘useful idiots’
02 May 2019
The SWP remains trapped in its old bad habits - and never have they been more obviously counterproductive, reckons Paul Demarty
Revolution or the ‘democratic road’?
25 Apr 2019
Amid increased radicalisation, US leftists are debating their political strategy. We publish here a contribution by Donald Parkinson
Israel and the ‘new anti-Semitism’
25 Apr 2019
Review: ‘The British left and Zionism - history of a divorce’ by Paul Kelemen, Manchester University Press, 2012, pp227, £16.99
Prophet and poet of Russian Revolution
25 Apr 2019
Chris Knight looks at the legacy of Velimir Khlebnikov. This is an edited transcript of a talk given to Communist University 2018
Full-timers and ‘cadre’
25 Apr 2019
Mike Macnair discusses the managerialist version of ‘democratic centralism’ revealed by the collapse of yet another sect