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
‘Speaking bitterness’ and Left Unity
19 Jun 2014
The precursor of ‘safe spaces’ was unsuccessful and destructive in past movements of the oppressed, writes Mike Macnair
Left Unity: A matter of political health
19 Jun 2014
Unity requires freedom to criticise, argues Paul Demarty
Left Unity: Freedom to criticise must be defended
19 Jun 2014
Laurie McCauley reports on his suspension from Manchester branch
Free speech: The permitted shades of grey
19 Jun 2014
Karl Marx stood for free speech, in the tradition of the first amendment to the US constitution, writes Eddie Ford
A leading rank-and-filer
12 Jun 2014
Paul Frölich Im radikalen Lager: Politische Autobiographie 1890-1921 (1938) €29.80, pp416, edited by Reiner Tosstorf, Berlin 2013
Against bad things
12 Jun 2014
Richard Seymour Against austerity: How we can fix the crisis they made? Pluto Press, 2014, pp198, £11.50
Condition of the working class movement
12 Jun 2014
Torab Saleth of Hands Off the People of Iran assesses the strengths and weaknesses
Leadership meets at last
12 Jun 2014
Yassamine Mather reports on the first meeting of the LU national council
Playing a fool's game
12 Jun 2014
The ‘common sense’ consensus on migration stretches from Ukip and the Tories to the CPB and SPEW, writes Peter Manson
Dispelling delusions of easy success
05 Jun 2014
Last weekend’s Communist Platform meeting discussed electoral strategy and tactics. Peter Manson reports
The Peter principle
05 Jun 2014
It is past time for SPEW members to start questioning the strategic acumen of their leadership, argues Paul Demarty
May 22 results: Once again a sorry joke
29 May 2014
The left’s election results reflect its lack of social roots, reports Peter Manson
Left unity: Safe spaces are not liberating
29 May 2014
Mike Macnair puts forward an alternative to Left Unity’s draft ‘safe spaces’ policy
Ukraine: Economistic wishful thinking
22 May 2014
There is far more at stake than wages, says Paul Demarty
Left Unity: Keeping disagreements hidden
22 May 2014
Left Unity’s press release about Gerry Adams illustrates the fragility of its political method, argues Paul Demarty