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
Commitment to orderly progress
09 May 2019
Jim Creegan argues, in his second and concluding article, that while Karl Kautsky’s writings contained insights, his entire political career can only serve as a negative example. We intend to carry a rejoinder in the near future
Steady rightward trajectory
02 May 2019
Responding to a flurry of debate, US comrade Jim Creegan gives his view on the evolution of Karl Kautsky in the first of a two-part article
Anti-racism and ‘useful idiots’
02 May 2019
The SWP remains trapped in its old bad habits - and never have they been more obviously counterproductive, reckons Paul Demarty
Revolution or the ‘democratic road’?
25 Apr 2019
Amid increased radicalisation, US leftists are debating their political strategy. We publish here a contribution by Donald Parkinson
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