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
A sad state of affairs
20 Dec 2018
Peter Manson looks at what passes for internal debate in the run-up to the SWP conference
Working class trade policy
20 Dec 2018
Mike Macnair concludes his series on ‘free trade’ by looking at the positive alternative
He who pays the piper
13 Dec 2018
Why are the billionaire Koch brothers funding Spiked, whose origins lie in the Revolutionary Communist Party? Eddie Ford looks at a strange journey from far left to alt-right
Competition and cooperation
06 Dec 2018
Review of 'Elinor Ostrom’s rules for radicals' by Derek Wall, Pluto Press, 2017, pp160, £16.99
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