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
Still with us in our hearts
15 Jun 2023
Fred Carpenter December 28 1952 - May 18 2023
First plan backgrounds
15 Jun 2023
Planning and socialism are synonymous. However, as Jack Conrad argues in a two-part article, there is planning and planning. The Soviet Union’s first five-year plan owed more to chaos than plan
Charting a difficult course
08 Jun 2023
How to move the DSA away from the Democratic Party’s left fringes? The answer lies in democratic centralism. Parker McQueeney answers Red Labor
Labour and Lubner’s millions
08 Jun 2023
Starmer’s new megadonor threatens to outweigh the influence of the unions, argues Paul Demarty
Confessions of a rat
01 Jun 2023
Yassamine Mather gives her judgement on an extraordinary talk and subsequent BBC interview with the former governor of the notorious Evin prison
Witch-hunt grows
18 May 2023
While some on the disoriented left will support ‘anyone but Labour’, writes Carla Roberts, Momentum and what remains of the official Labour left beg Sir Keir for unity
Party, unions and programme
11 May 2023
Kent Kiser and Awi Blanc of the Red Labor Caucus take issue with Parker McQueeney and call for the DSA to make an immediate ‘clean break’ with the Democratic Party
Blame the system itself
11 May 2023
Self-defence is no offence, insists Daniel Lazare. The death of Jordan Neely was an avoidable tragedy
The meaning of May Day
04 May 2023
First published on May 1 1907 in Clara Zetkin’s Die Gleichheit (‘Equality’), this article by Rosa Luxemburg skilfully explains the significance of International Workers’ Day - launched at the founding congress of the Second International in 1889
Stuff ‘single person’ leadership
04 May 2023
Despite its ostensible archaism, the coronation of Charles III reflects the thoroughly modern practice of one-man management, argues Mike Macnair
Take inspiration from Cromwell
04 May 2023
Enough of platonic republicanism, enough of fickle republicanism, enough of egg-throwing republicanism, says Jack Conrad . We need a militant fight for republican democracy
Chasing after cabinet seats
27 Apr 2023
Sinn Féin looks set to become the biggest party after the next general election. Anne McShane lambasts its PBP would-be coalition partner
All power to the 3.5%?
20 Apr 2023
The SWP cheers on those committed to minority, isolated actions such as blowing up pipelines, not those who stress programme, class politics and using elections to win majority support, writes Eddie Ford
Zhenotdel and its travails
30 Mar 2023
In light of the ongoing Women, Life, Freedom protests in Iran, Anne McShane discussed with Yassamine Mather the lessons that can be drawn from the fight for women’s emancipation in post-revolutionary Russia
We cause offence
23 Mar 2023
Following the lead of the liberal bourgeoisie, the dominant section of the left takes a ‘free speech, but ...’ approach. Jack Conrad defends the unrestricted right to organise, strike, assemble … and speak