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
AWL review: Education or training?
01 Aug 2013
Mike Macnair reviews: Cathy Nugent (ed) 'Marxist ideas to turn the tide: readings and reflections on revolutionary socialist strategy'. Phoenix Press/Workers Liberty, 2013, pp138, £5
Socialist Platform
01 Aug 2013
Statement of aims and principles for the Left Unity party
Left Unity: Rules for flirting
01 Aug 2013
Dave Isaacson reports from Left Unitys second national coordinating group meeting
Socialist Party Ireland: Not for the public domain
25 Jul 2013
Craig Murphy, a member of the Socialist Party in Ireland, reports on the resignation of four prominent comrades and the dishonest response of the leadership
Delta resigns: Now the rest should follow
25 Jul 2013
The resignation of Martin Smith was long overdue, argues Peter Manson
Democratic centralism: Further fortunes of a formula
25 Jul 2013
While the emphasis inevitably shifted according to circumstances, writes Lars T Lih, for the Bolsheviks democracy was just as vital as centralism
ISNetwork: Entropy, therapy and eclecticism
18 Jul 2013
The International Socialist Network is still trapped by SWP politics, argues Harley Filben
Not taking into account the specific conditions
18 Jul 2013
Another session on Leninism, another show-down. Sarah McDonald was there
Alex in wonderland
18 Jul 2013
Attempts by the leadership to portray the SWP as the only Leninist organisation in town are totally at odds with reality, argues Ben Lewis
Democratic centralism: The genie and the bottle
18 Jul 2013
If you can loosen SWP restrictions on free debate on one occasion, asks Peter Manson, why not do so permanently?
SWP: How did this bloody mess come to pass?
18 Jul 2013
Marxism, the annual school of the SWP, saw a revamped opposition, reports Mark Fischer
Socialist Appeal: Waiting for the class to move
11 Jul 2013
Stan Keable of Labour Party Marxists reports on Socialist Appeals third Marxist summer school
SWP: Opposition flexes its muscles
11 Jul 2013
The leadership got its disciplinary vote, writes Paul Demarty. But then it pathetically backed down
SWP leadership: Laughable history produces laughable results
11 Jul 2013
Jack Conrad argues that the pre-1917 Bolshevik model of organisation should be properly studied and properly understood
Socialist Party/CWI: Rudeness and revolution
04 Jul 2013
The Committee for a Workers International should not insist on micro-managing debates, argues Paul Demarty