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
Austerity parties punished
03 Mar 2016
Following the indecisive general election, Anne McShane discusses the rise of Sinn Féin and the divisions in the anti-austerity movement
Last hurrah of a psychopath
03 Mar 2016
Toni Negri, 'Storia di un comunista', Milan, 2015, pp608, €18, reviewed by Toby Abse
Strategic bankruptcy confirmed
25 Feb 2016
Localists score a practical victory. A directionless leadership blows it with Momentum. Communist Platform makes its final bow. Jack Conrad reports on an eventful February 20 meeting of the LU national council
Possibilities and pitfalls
25 Feb 2016
The job of socialists is to channel the opportunities opened up by the Sanders campaign into the fight for class independence, argues Jim Creegan
Turning of the tide
25 Feb 2016
Bolivia’s ‘road to socialism’ turned out to be another dead end, writes Eddie Ford
Bakuninist hatchet job
18 Feb 2016
Mike Macnair takes issue with Dave Douglass over the First International
The problem of unequal abilities
11 Feb 2016
Should socialists aim to offer incentives to the ‘gifted and talented’? Marc Mulholland looks at how the question has been dealt with historically
Devotion to dogma
04 Feb 2016
Sadly, notes Eddie Ford, political madness is not confined to the Workers’ Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought
The real Iowa coup
04 Feb 2016
Thanks to Sanders, a space is opening up for the ideas of Marxism, argues Tom Munday
Missing the bigger picture
04 Feb 2016
Sarah McDonald reports on Left Unity's National Council meeting
Things don’t look good
21 Jan 2016
Peter Manson reports on last weekend’s shambolic London members aggregate
Drowning in oil
21 Jan 2016
The capitalist world economy is fast slowing down. Investors and central bankers worry about a catastrophic crisis. Meanwhile, asks Eddie Ford, does Venezuela’s oil-reliant Bolivarian revolution face its nemesis.
Systems and symptoms
14 Jan 2016
While millions live in dire poverty, the SACP wants us to believe that the main problem is still ‘racism’. Peter Manson reports
Back to Herbert Spencer
07 Jan 2016
Chris Cutrone argues that the libertarian liberalism of the late 19th century still has relevance today
The Davidson papers
07 Jan 2016
Mike Macnair reviews Neil Davidson