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
Little cause for optimism in Italy
06 Dec 2018
The left is fragmented, directionless and in total disarray, writes Toby Abse
Left tails of liberal bourgeoisie
29 Nov 2018
He who pays the AEIP piper calls the AEIP tune, says Jack Conrad
Immigration: ignoring the problem
29 Nov 2018
Fighting for open borders means facing up to the reality of mass migration, argues Paul Demarty
Free-trade tailism
22 Nov 2018
The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty has enlisted a clipped version of Marx and Engels to serve its political agenda. In the first of two articles Mike Macnair looks at the claims of free trade and protectionism
Theories that kill
22 Nov 2018
Thomas Klikauer looks at the connection between ‘fake news’ and the far right
Revolutionary Germany: how did the right of the left react?
08 Nov 2018
On November 9 1918, the kaiser abdicated and Germany became a republic. One hundred years later, we publish - thanks to Ben Lewis’s translation - abridged passages from the rightwing social democratic leader, Philipp Scheidemann
Value is a human creation
08 Nov 2018
John Bridge takes issue with those who see value as being natural to all societies and all times. Communism will leave behind such fetishistic forms
Trump can still win in 2020
08 Nov 2018
The midterm results will increase the tension in Washington, says Paul Demarty, presenting the left with dangers and opportunities
German revolution: diverted and betrayed by leaders of official social democracy
01 Nov 2018
In this supplement, Ben Lewis shows how the heroic actions of November 1918 were doomed by misleaders
American midterms are an index of political crisis
01 Nov 2018
And the left must ensure its candidates are accountable, writes Paul Demarty
The Bolsheviks and democracy
01 Nov 2018
Jim Creegan rides to the defence of Trotsky’s Lessons of October
People’s Vote: Establishment fights back
25 Oct 2018
Saturday's demonstration carried more than a whiff of a post-Brexit national government about it, writes Eddie Ford
SWP: Keep on keeping on
25 Oct 2018
The absence of members’ rights is striking. Peter Manson reports on the first Pre-Conference Bulletin
The National Left-Wing Movement: a lost legacy of the 1920s
18 Oct 2018
Lawrence Parker spoke about his book ‘Communists and Labour - The National Left-Wing Movement 1925-1929’ at Communist University 2018. This is an edited version of his talk
Dashed hopes
11 Oct 2018
Despite retreats and prevarication, writes Peter Manson, the objective conditions for working class advance remain