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
Left culture: Politics for dummies
03 Oct 2013
Paul Demarty asks why so many on the left are afraid of talking politics
Left Unity: Well-meaning naivety
03 Oct 2013
Robert Hayes reports on the Manchester policy conference
SWP: At war with itself
03 Oct 2013
The leadership is divided between two competing factions. Meanwhile there is the challenge presented by the official opposition. Peter Manson reports on the growing disarray
Die Linke: Safe spaces task force
26 Sep 2013
A word of warning from Maciej Zurowski for those in Left Unity who wish to emulate the German left party
Safe spaces: Conway-Hudson school of censorship
26 Sep 2013
Paul Demarty defends the idea of free speech on the left
SWP: Treating the symptoms
26 Sep 2013
Attempting to reform the disputes procedure will not cure the SWP of its bureaucratic centralism. Meanwhile, splits have opened up in both the opposition and loyalist camps, writes Peter Manson
Why is the left so afraid of science?
19 Sep 2013
Our struggle to overcome capitalism requires solid scientific foundations, argues Chris Knight of the Radical Anthropology Group
Socialist Platform: Politics of prejudice
19 Sep 2013
The fear of political groups and impatience with political meetings on display at the Socialist Platforms first national meeting are deeply linked - and politically pernicious, argues Paul Demarty
AWL dishonesty
19 Sep 2013
Dave Isaacson refutes a rather bizarre accusation
Socialist Platform leaders: Headlong collapse into politics of the labour bureaucracy
19 Sep 2013
Peter Manson reports on the undemocratic manoeuvres of the drafting group
Socialist Platform: An exchange
12 Sep 2013
Message sent to the Socialist Platform drafting group by the CPGB and a reply from the comrades
Socialist Platform: Principles first, then the masses
12 Sep 2013
Mark Fischer on the differences that have arisen in the SP in the lead up to its first meeting
Programme: Lessons of Erfurt
05 Sep 2013
Was the Second International based on parties of the whole class? Mike Macnair looks at the real history of working class organisation
Left Unity: Self-liberation, not manipulation
29 Aug 2013
Nick Wrack was the second speaker at the Fighting for a mass party session
Left Unity: Communicating across the archipelago of isolation
29 Aug 2013
Jack Conrad puts the case for clear principles and greater boldness. This is an edited version of his opening contribution to the Fighting for a mass partysession at Communist University