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
Under pressure to stand
20 Jul 2017
While the SACP has finally agreed to contest elections independently, writes Peter Manson, its leadership is still fully committed to class collaboration
Enough Blairite bleating
13 Jul 2017
Paul Demarty takes a look at the right’s latest moans - and notes SPEW’s continued refusal to join the battle on the side of the Labour left
Much needs to be done
13 Jul 2017
On July 8 a team of comrades from Labour Party Marxists attended the Durham Miners’ Gala. James Harvey recounts some of his impressions of this year’s ‘Big Meeting’
Stumbling over Labour
13 Jul 2017
The SWP’s movementism leaves it politically adrift where it really counts, writes Peter Manson
Left’s movementist delusions
13 Jul 2017
Neither a million-strong demonstration nor mass strikes would in themselves be likely to bring down the Tories, argues Mike Macnair. But, with the government weak and wobbly, the real question is what happens after a general election. Greece holds plenty of negative lessons
Kemalists seize the moment
13 Jul 2017
‘Justice’ march wrong-footed the mainstream left, writes Esen Uslu
Big Meeting gets bigger
06 Jul 2017
The 133rd Durham Miners’ Gala this Saturday will see some 150,000 march through the ancient city. Davie Douglass looks at the history and the ongoing significance
Racists and Islamophobes
06 Jul 2017
Following the triumph of the right in last month’s local elections, writes Toby Abse, the left appears more and more isolated
The Corbyn phenomenon
06 Jul 2017
It is important to know where we are and where we are going, argues Tony Greenstein
An unsavoury alliance
06 Jul 2017
‘Regime change from above’ cannot be ruled out, writes Yassamine Mather
Now let’s crush the Blairites
06 Jul 2017
There is a greater opportunity than ever to break the grip of the right, argues Paul Demarty
May is not irreplaceable
29 Jun 2017
More is needed than a removal van outside Number 10, argues Paul Demarty
Crisis and degeneration
29 Jun 2017
David E Lowes (editor), Arthur Ransome Three accounts of revolutionary Russia Red Revenant, 2017, £6.90, pp212
First stage of the first revolution
29 Jun 2017
Lenin’s ‘Letter from afar’, as printed in Pravda, March 21 and 22 1917
Corrections from up close
29 Jun 2017
Censorship or retrofit? In the third part of the series, ‘All power to the soviets’, Lars T Lih looks at Lenin’s ‘Letters from afar’ and the reaction of the Bolsheviks