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

Divisive incorporation

23 Jan 2014

Paul Demarty on the latest attempts by politicians to assert that 'We're all middle class now'

Review: Full of militant stories but theoretically flawed

16 Jan 2014

Geoff Jones, 'Land of whose fathers? A short history of the Welsh working class', Socialist Party Wales/Plaid Sosialaidd Cymru publication, 2013, pp64, £4

Time to take principles seriously

16 Jan 2014

The Socialist Platforms claim to the mantle of principled politics is entirely bogus, says Daniel Harvey

IS Network: Unity in the spring?

19 Dec 2013

IS Network is in trouble again. Daniel Harvey looks at the regroupment efforts by the marsh

Sussex: Autonomists in 'feelgood' attack on SWP

19 Dec 2013

Tom Munday on the turning over of an SWP stall and the burning of their papers at Sussex university

SWP conference: Notes of a delegate

19 Dec 2013

An oppositionist calls for the whole of the left to engage in debate and rethink its politics

Bordiga and the fate of Bordigism

19 Dec 2013

Though he is largely remembered in the context of Lenins polemic against left-wing communism, Amadeo Bordiga remains a towering figure of the 20th century workers movement. David Broder explores his ideas and political record

SWP: Creating a desert waste

19 Dec 2013

For the third time in just over a year, the leadership is drawing a line. Actually, argues Ben Lewis, Charlie Kimber and Alex Callinicos are busily destroying their own organisation

Liquidationism: End of the road

12 Dec 2013

The Anti-Capitalist Initiative is about to fold. Meanwhile the International Socialist Network looks set to splinter. Harley Filben explores the politics of the marsh