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
Widening frame of debate
08 Aug 2019
Mike Macnair begins an examination of the ‘Kautsky debate’ that is taking place on the US left.
Liberal and illiberal delusions
02 Aug 2019
Mike Macnair argues that capitalism cannot escape from the battles of liberals and conservatives
Taaffe expels his majority
02 Aug 2019
Paul Demarty reports on the finalisation of the split in the Committee for a Workers’ International.
Taaffe counts his shekels
18 Jul 2019
The two sides in the CWI dispute are engaged in a tawdry wrangling over cash, writes Paul Demarty
Learn the lessons
12 Jul 2019
Rather than attempting to run capitalism, argues Peter Manson, in current circumstances we must aim to build Marxist parties of extreme opposition
Witch-hunt's biggest victim
12 Jul 2019
Chris Williamson has dared question the claim that Labour has become institutionally anti-Semitic under Jeremy Corbyn, writes Carla Roberts of Labour Party Marxists. Now he is likely to be expelled for this crime.
Squandering the Legacy
12 Jul 2019
SPEW is severing its ties with the PCS leadership - because of its political errors, argues Paul Demarty
Drop the dead donkey
04 Jul 2019
Peter Taaffe’s determination to split his would-be international is yet more proof of his unfitness for leadership, argues Paul Demarty
Force the ANC to retreat
04 Jul 2019
Going back to apartheid practices means denying democracy. Peter Manson looks at the ‘traditional peoples’ legislation
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