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
ULA blow-up: Legacy of sectarianism
28 Feb 2013
As the ULA stares into the abyss, Anne Mc Shane looks back at two years of cynical betrayal
SWP CC and theory: Self-serving dishonesty
28 Feb 2013
Do the Socialist Workers Partys stability and clear perspectives result from its ban on permanent factions? You must be joking, writes Mike Macnair
SWP crisis: Silence of the lambs
28 Feb 2013
The softly, softly approach of the Socialist Workers Party opposition contrasts with the leaderships aggression, argues Paul Demarty
Comintern review: Not a school of strategy
21 Feb 2013
Mike Macnair reviews: John Riddell (ed), 'Toward the united front: proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International 1922'. Brill, 2012, pp1310, 200 (paperback also available from Haymarket Books, £39.99)
Programme and Party: Broad bad, mass good
21 Feb 2013
Opportunists require mushy politics and meaningless phrases when they set out to deceive. Jack Conrad argues in favour of a mass working class party and the kind of principles and politics outlined in the Communist manifesto, the Erfurt programme and the programme of the Parti Ouvrier
Socialist Party: Taaffe’s significant silence
21 Feb 2013
The Socialist Party in England and Wales appears to have decided to effectively ignore the SWP crisis. But why? Ben Lewis investigates
SWP crisis: Lynch mobs and lèse-majesté
21 Feb 2013
The Socialist Workers Party leadership is fighting a dirty war. Unfortunately, writes Paul Demarty, nobody seems to have told the opposition
Left organisation: Not another sinister sect
21 Feb 2013
The way the left organises is a nonsense, argues Nick Wrack. This is an edited version of his speech at the February 9 Socialist Organisation and Democracy event in Manchester
SWP crisis: Twilight of the idols
14 Feb 2013
The central committee has once again failed to reassert control. But dirty tricks are inevitable, writes Paul Demarty
SWP and programme: Transitional regression ends in a hunch
14 Feb 2013
Is the so-called transitional method the road to revolution? Jack Conrad argues against the economism of the Socialist Workers Party
Owen Jones polemic: Babies and bathwater
07 Feb 2013
Stan Keable of Labour Party Marxists thinks that Owen Jones has thrown out the democratic baby
SWP crisis: Green light for expulsions
07 Feb 2013
The opposition is about to be given a new lease of life, writes Peter Manson
SWP crisis: Programme and the programmeless
07 Feb 2013
Why do communists place such importance on their programmes and why does the SWP central committee expel oppositionists who advocate developing one? Jack Conrad begins a short series of articles
SWP:Apparatus gears up for war
31 Jan 2013
This weekends national committee meeting looks set to trigger a showdown, writes Peter Manson
SWP crisis: Professor Callinicos and the dark side
31 Jan 2013
Finally a member of the SWP central committee attempts to defend its conduct. Paul Demarty wishes he hadnt bothered