Party & Programme
End the cycle of splits
Sowing dragon's teeth
26 Jul 2018
Is Leon Trotsky’s Transitional programme the last word when it comes to the Marxist programme? Or does it represent regression in Marxist terms? Jack Conrad argues against the economism of Trotskyism
Tactics, principles and willing dupes
19 Jul 2018
What attitude should the left take to the People’s Vote campaign and its call for a second referendum? Jack Conrad insists that referendums are a backward, not a forward step for democracy
Big Meeting lives on
19 Jul 2018
David Douglass reports on the134th Durham Miners Gala
End the farce
12 Jul 2018
Surely it is time to join the fight to transform the Labour Party, writes Peter Manson
Irrational optimism
12 Jul 2018
Mike Macnair responds to Rex Dunn’s arguments about Trotskyism and May 1968
Getting beyond capitalism
05 Jul 2018
Mike Macnair completes his critique of intersectionality and identity politics
Oppose siren calls
05 Jul 2018
Some on the ‘left’ insist on running with People’s Vote and its call for a second EU referendum. Once again Jack Conrad argues that Marxists ought to condemn referendums. We favour representative democracy and working class political independence
Mistaken versions of Maoism
28 Jun 2018
Two books on intersectionality reviewed: 'How we get free: black feminism and the Combahee River Collective' by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Haymarket, 2017, pp191, £9.70) and Asad Haider's 'Mistaken identity: race and class in the age of Trump' (Verso, 2018, pp132, £9.90)
Race and class
21 Jun 2018
Mike Macnair examines the critiques of intersectionality developed by Adolph Reed Jr and Walter Benn Michaels
Intersectionality is a dead end
07 Jun 2018
Sections of the left are beginning to cotton on to the extent to which ‘identity politics’ and ‘intersectionality’ are neoliberal projects, argues Mike Macnair. But they do not yet offer a clear alternative
May 68 to colour revolutions
31 May 2018
The left has used the May 68 événements as evidence for a distorted concept of revolution, argues Mike Macnair. By doing so it has even endorsed ‘revolutions’ in the service of reaction. This is an edited version of a talk given to the May 27 London Communist Forum
Another rotten fudge
24 May 2018
The divisions in SPEW stem from a leadership dogmatically sticking to a totally wrong position, writes Carla Roberts of Labour Party Marxists
Cold war nostalgia
17 May 2018
Mike Macnair looks at the AWL’s version of ‘socialism’ and finds it wanting
Wonderful yet underperformed
10 May 2018
Jack Conrad looks back at the May-June events that rocked France 50 years ago
Who remembers Marx?
10 May 2018
Paul Demarty marks 200 years since the birth of the founder of scientific socialism