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
Despicable participants in an ongoing witch-hunt
11 Oct 2018
The AWL social-imperialists have constituted themselves as allies of the Labour right, the mainstream media and the Israeli political establishment, writes Carla Roberts
Small but positive
11 Oct 2018
Peter Moody looks at DSA attempts to ensure that their elected representatives remain accountable to the organisation
Let it rot in the grave
04 Oct 2018
Labour should not revive the old Fabian clause four, says Jack Conrad. Instead a new, genuinely socialist version is needed
A funny way to support Jeremy
04 Oct 2018
SPEW has written to the Labour Party asking to affiliate. Peter Manson looks at the background
Liberal playthings
27 Sep 2018
Mike Macnair assesses the AWL’s second conference document, on Europe
Where next for the SACP?
20 Sep 2018
As the ANC continues to lose support, Peter Manson looks at the dilemmas of the ‘official communists’
A new beginning?
20 Sep 2018
Marcel van der Linden examines the state of the global labour movement
Grappling with the party question
13 Sep 2018
Mike Macnair looks at two very different documents from two very different organisations
From Postgate to Barthélemy
06 Sep 2018
Marc Mulholland tells the story of a French revolutionary hanged for murder in London in 1855
Left in disunity
06 Sep 2018
Dave Vincent looks at the strange battle for assistant general secretary
A failure of definition
09 Aug 2018
Jack Conrad argues that the left is crippled by its fixation on economic struggles and the downplaying of high politics
Dead end of intersectionality
02 Aug 2018
Only the working class can unify the oppressed, argues Mike Macnair. This is an edited version of his talk at the July 29 London Communist Forum
Demanding a consensus
26 Jul 2018
What will result from the SACP’s call for a ‘reconfigured alliance’ with the ANC? Peter Manson reports on the party’s continuing divisions
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