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
South African left: Attempt to go round already existing mass organisations
04 Apr 2013
Wasp might be able to sting the SACP/Cosatu bureaucracy. But, asks Peter Manson, can it become a mass party capable of leading a socialist revolution?
Anti-cuts movement: Frontism produces no lasting gains
04 Apr 2013
What can we expect from the Peoples Assembly? Dave Isaacson looks at the June 22 build-up
Learning and struggle: Stalinism, sectarianism and Marxist education
28 Mar 2013
There exists a dialectical relationship between deepening Marxist understanding and the fight for a Marxist party, argues Paul B Smith
The left: Loach makes his bid for unity
28 Mar 2013
Can anything positive arise from the SWP crisis? Peter Manson believes it can if we stick to our principles
SWP leadership crisis: If you don’t talk about it ...
21 Mar 2013
Peter Manson thinks that the SWP leadership needs to stop doing its ostrich impression
Student elections: Campaigning for communism
21 Mar 2013
Communist Students member Callum Williamson reports on his campaign during the Univeristy of Westminster Union student elections
Chávez obituary: Man, myth and legacy
14 Mar 2013
Nick Rogers looks at the Bolivarian revolution of Hugo Chávez
Anti-war anniversary: Party with all-round strategy needed
14 Mar 2013
Moshé Machover looks back at a decade of anti-war protest. This is an edited version of his speech to the March 9 Ten wasted years? school, organised by the CPGB
SPEW: Peter Taaffe and his own scandal
14 Mar 2013
Ben Lewis discusses SPEWs version of democratic centralism
SWP factions: Two errors of the opposition
14 Mar 2013
SWP lynchers were emboldened by a weak opposition, argues Eddie Ford
SWP special conference: Apparatus uses fair means and foul
14 Mar 2013
Peter Manson asks what can still be saved from the SWP
Debate: Lukács reloaded
07 Mar 2013
Dealing with the complex legacy of Georg Lukács demands something more sophisticated than treating him as an honorary member of the SWP, argues Lawrence Parker
SWP special conference: Divided they fall
07 Mar 2013
The Socialist Workers Party leadership is attempting to divide the opposition. Taking the bait would be suicide, reckons Paul Demarty
Tusc: Let’s get this party started
07 Mar 2013
The current Tusc model has failed, argues Nick Wrack
Alex Callinicos: haunted by the real Lenin
07 Mar 2013
Ben Lewis observed few signs of revolt at last weekends SWSS day school