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 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
Left Unity: What ‘safe spaces’ lead to
22 May 2014
The Manchester branch of Left Unity has seen a clampdown on debate amidst claims and counter-claims of 'bullying'
ANC: Fully in control
22 May 2014
Neither right nor left has been able to challenge ANC hegemony, writes Peter Manson
Labour Party: Griffiths ends CPB truce
22 May 2014
Open struggle has erupted between those in the CPB who want to 'reclaim' the Labour Party, and those who want to... start another one. Peter Manson reports.
Nothing but bathwater
22 May 2014
The Soviet Union did not constitute capitalism of any sort, argues Mike Macnair
Left Unity: Arms and our moderate speaker
22 May 2014
Jack Conrad takes issue with Salman Shaheen’s cowardly rejection of the demand for a popular militia
Left unity: Playing happy families
22 May 2014
The protracted regroupment talks between Socialist Resistance, the International Socialist Network and others continue; as does their political confusion, writes Paul Demarty
Safe spaces cotton wool
22 May 2014
Tina Becker reports on the development of the Sheffield branch of Left Unity
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels for the masses
22 May 2014
Joseph Kessel calls for the works of the founding fathers of scientific socialism to become the ‘property’ of the workers’ movement as a whole, not the subject of bourgeois copyright laws
EU elections: Trying to vote internationalist
22 May 2014
Peter Manson outlines how to approach the May 22 EU elections
Clara Zetkin: Preached principle, promoted unity
22 May 2014
Marilyn J Boxer and John S Partington (eds) Clara Zetkin: national and international contexts Socialist History Society occasional publications, series No31, pp118, £7
Left Unity: Political clarity first
22 May 2014
The Communist Platform is standing four candidates in regional elections to the NC; Mark Fischer explains where and why