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
Marx, Lenin and 1917
09 Nov 2017
Was it possible, asks Marc Mulholland, for a bourgeois revolution to end in socialism?
Enough wishful thinking
03 Nov 2017
The left must do better than acting as Puigdemont’s PR department, argues Paul Demarty
Iran, Kurdistan and the left
03 Nov 2017
How can we achieve principled communist unity in the Middle East? We spoke to Mohammad Reza Shalgouni, a member of the Organisation of Revolutionary Workers of Iran (Rahe Kargar)
Centrepiece of imperial strategy
03 Nov 2017
On the centenary of the Balfour declaration, Tony Greenstein looks at the reasons underlying British support for Zionism
The character of the Russian Revolution
03 Nov 2017
This article by Lev Trotsky was first published in August 1917 as part 5 of his pamphlet What next?
Supplement: Trotsky 1917 vs Trotsky 1924
02 Nov 2017
Did the Bolsheviks believe the Russian Revolution to be ‘bourgeois-democratic’ or ‘socialist’? asks Lars T Lih in part 6 of his series, ‘All power to the soviets!’
Disintegrating alliance
02 Nov 2017
The SACP is calling for a ‘reconfigured alliance’ with the ANC in a desperate attempt to stave off the pressure from below, writes Peter Manson
Supplement: The Bolsheviks & socialist revolution
26 Oct 2017
Did Lenin’s April theses amount to ‘rearming the party’? Paul Le Blanc argues that the contributions of Lars T Lih and Eric Blanc do not tell the whole story
Pisapia’s soap opera
19 Oct 2017
Thankfully the attempt by the former mayor of Milan to pull fragments to the left of the PD back into the fold has ended in failure, writes Toby Abse
Party’s Sunday best
19 Oct 2017
The Sunday Worker reached a circulation of 100,000. And, far from shunning argument, it encouraged different leftwing viewpoints, says Lawrence Parker
First Corbyn, then us
19 Oct 2017
As the first Pre-conference bulletin shows, Labour presents a huge dilemma for the SWP. Peter Manson wonders if it has any answers
Reinstate Moshé
19 Oct 2017
This petition, organised by Jewish Voice for Labour, has been signed by hundreds of Labour Party members, Jewish and non-Jewish
Triumph of ‘revolutionary parliamentarism’
12 Oct 2017
Elections - as a means, not an end - were central to Lenin’s strategic thinking, argued August Nimtz in his concluding talk at the CPGB’s Communist University1
Transform the Labour Party
12 Oct 2017
The steering committee of Labour Party Marxists has agreed this 13-point platform, which will provide the basis for its submission to the Labour Party democracy commission
Labour’s ‘flexible’ rules
12 Oct 2017
If being a supporter of LPM is incompatible with Labour’s ‘aims and principles’, asks Carla Roberts, where does that leave all the other political organisations inside the party?