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
'Official' CPGB History: Scotching the myths
10 Jan 2013
The history of the official CPGB was much more complex than tankies versus Euros. This is the book-launch speech given by Lawrence Parker in December
SWP conference: Comrades in the SWP, rebel!
10 Jan 2013
The central committee was delivered a body blow at this weekends conference - but for dissidents the fight must go on, argues Paul Demarty
SWP: Expelled before conference begins
20 Dec 2012
Once more the SWP central committee has acted to silence critics and cut off debate, reports Peter Manson
Socialist Alternative Australia: Strange sort of unity
13 Dec 2012
Last month the Weekly Worker published a statement from the Australian group, Socialist Alternative, calling for a new kind of left unity (Solidarity in a revolutionary party, November 8).
SWP conference: Crazy contortions of SWP central committee
13 Dec 2012
Following criticisms of the SWPs culture and practice in the first two Internal Bulletins, the leadership has mobilised to rubbish opponents. Peter Manson reports
Anti-Capitalist Initiative:Up the Swanny
06 Dec 2012
The Anti-Capitalist Initiative hosted two events over the weekend of December 1-2. Mark Fischer was not impressed
Assoziation Dämmerung
06 Dec 2012
Susann Witt-Stahl explains a little about her political group, the 'Assoziation Dämmerung'
'Anti-Germans': Excusing capitalism of role in rise of Hitler
06 Dec 2012
Susann Witt-Stahl of the Hamburg-based Assoziation Dämmerung examines the enigma of the anti-German Germans
CPGB History: Illuminating the factional struggles of the CPGB
29 Nov 2012
Mark Fischer welcomes the second edition of a book which uncovers some long-hidden history
UTR: Sectarian and philistine
22 Nov 2012
The SWPs fear of genuine debate was on grisly display throughout the day. Peter Manson reports on the Unite the Resistance conference
April theses: Before and after April 1917
22 Nov 2012
The April theses represented Bolshevik continuity rather than a break, argues Lars T Lih. This is an edited version of a speech given to a London Communist Forum
HM conference: Theory in exile
15 Nov 2012
The ninth annual conference of Historical Materialism journal provides a snapshot of the academic left, writes James Turley
China: Apologia with racist characteristics
15 Nov 2012
Once again, laments Eddie Ford, the Morning Star prostrates itself before the corrupt Chinese bureaucracy
Australian SA: Regroupment in a revolutionary party
08 Nov 2012
Have the hard-line Cliffite sectarians seen the light?
Socialist Party: On a publicity high
08 Nov 2012
In an interesting session on events in South Africa and the local CWI body the Democratic Socialist Movement, Peter Manson thinks that a more serious approach to the SACP is needed