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
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
Taaffe demands a split
25 Apr 2019
Further leaks from the CWI point to a parting of ways, writes Paul Demarty
Learn the lessons
11 Apr 2019
Peter Moody comments on the collapse of the most prominent revolutionary group on the US left
Whatever happened to the Lexit lads?
11 Apr 2019
Life has driven the left advocates of Brexit into ever greater confusion, argues Paul Demarty
A promising start
11 Apr 2019
Peter Manson welcomes the formation of the Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party in South Africa
Transparency and solidarity
04 Apr 2019
Mike Macnair looks at the procedural questions that precipitated the collapse of the ISO
Taaffe goes for the throat
04 Apr 2019
It is increasingly obvious that the crisis in the CWI is a lamentable attempt to force a split. Paul Demarty wonders who will fall for it, and whether the ‘tradition of the Militant’ is strong enough to survive
Time to end the tailism
28 Mar 2019
With the United Kingdom in the grip of a profound constitutional crisis, Jack Conrad says the left must reject referendums as a matter of principle. Instead we need our own programme and our own tactics
A basic necessity
21 Mar 2019
Tony O’Brien: ‘Tackling the housing crisis with publicly owned construction by direct labour organisations’, self-published, 2018, pp200, £10
Another round of splits
21 Mar 2019
It is a case of ‘Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose’ for Peter Taaffe’s beleaguered sect. Anne McShane and William Sarsfield look at the mounting problems in the CWI
No longer part of left
14 Mar 2019
The AWL is clearly in alliance with Tom Watson and the Labour right, argues Tony Greenstein
Women’s rights and class struggle
07 Mar 2019
Forty years ago Iranian women rebelled against the Islamic government. We should not only remember their struggle: we should uphold the original aims of International Women’s Day, says Yassamine Mather
A classic case of CIA subversion
28 Feb 2019
Why is Juan Guaidó still at liberty? Paul Demarty diagnoses the lack of revolutionary backbone