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
May elections to be contested
02 Feb 2017
Pete McLaren, representative of individual members on the steering committee, reports on the January 28 conference
Taking an independent stand
26 Jan 2017
The election of Donald Trump has torn up the political rulebook - a reality that protestors must confront, argues Jim Grant
Day of people’s wrath is near
26 Jan 2017
‘1917: the view from the streets’ - leaflets of the Russian Revolution, No2
Marx’s concept of the human
26 Jan 2017
Rex Dunn begins his three-part exploration of Marx’s essentialism, the nature of the epoch, decline and transition
The new president and the new global order
26 Jan 2017
What if Trumpism was made to serve the aims of US capital? Mike Macnair speculates
What kind of oppression?
26 Jan 2017
Peter Manson reports on presidential rivals, changing political alliances and apartheid’s ongoing legacy
Trump threatens N-deal
26 Jan 2017
It is time to reboot Hands Off the People of Iran, argues Yassamine Mather
Stay and fight the battle of ideas
19 Jan 2017
Despite widespread outrage over the Lansman coup, there is little appetite to split Momentum, says Carla Roberts of Labour Party Marxists
Reason in revolt
19 Jan 2017
Lawrence Parker reviews: Paul Flewers and John McIlroy (editors) 1956: John Saville, EP Thompson and The Reasoner Merlin Press, 2016, pp450, £20.
Rasputin and Little Red Riding Hood
19 Jan 2017
Claims that the Five Star Movement is some kind of leftwing formation have been well and truly exposed, writes Toby Abse
Revolution and counterrevolution
19 Jan 2017
In this article, based on a presentation to Communist University 2016, Kevin Bean examines the subjective and objective factors that prevented the development of a powerful working class republicanism in Ireland
Fake claims blown apart
19 Jan 2017
Al Jazeera’s The lobby exposes the establishment’s ‘anti-Semitism’ claims for what they are, writes Tony Greenstein
Steele’s very British coup
19 Jan 2017
Whatever the truth of the salacious details, the Trump dossier is a reminder that the state is not politically neutral, argues Jim Grant
After the fall of Aleppo
12 Jan 2017
Opposition to imperialism does not mean support for Assad, argues Yassamine Mather, and the myth of the moderate opposition is busted
Palestine and Hebrew self-determination
12 Jan 2017
Is there a Hebrew nation and how should it be defined? Moshé Machover proposes a strategy envisaging the defeat of Zionism