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
The Fourth International and failed perspectives
07 Jun 2012
Mike Macnair reviews: Daniel Bensaïd, Alda Sousa, Alan Thornett and others, 'New parties of the left: experiences from Europe', London 2011, pp202, £7
Broad fronts and liquidationism
31 May 2012
CPGB members have been discussing the Anti-Capitalist Initiative and the role of Communist Students. Peter Manson reports
Rewriting the past
31 May 2012
Lawerence Parker reviews: Roger Seifert and Tom Sibley Revolutionary communist at work: a political biography of Bert Ramelson Lawrence and Wishart, 2012, pp414,
How to learn nothing
31 May 2012
The emergence of a programme from the Occupy movement has caused a flurry of debate on the ACI website, Paul Demarty decides to join in
Syriza in the spotlight
24 May 2012
For a long time it was almost unknown outside Greece - but now the world's eyes are on Syriza. Paul Demarty examines the new thorn in the troika's side
Split looming in Die Linke
24 May 2012
The success of the gimmicky Piratenpartei has strengthened the right within the German Left Party, says Tina Becker
The fall of an icon
24 May 2012
David Douglass reviews Gregor Gall's 'Tommy Sheridan, from hero to zero: a political biography', Welsh Academic Press, 2012, pp384,
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
How Lenin's party became (Bolshevik)
17 May 2012
Did Lenin seek to exclude Mensheviks from Russia's revolutionary organisation in order to forge a 'party of a new type'? Lars T Lih looks at the reality
Small rooms and the politics of dishonesty
17 May 2012
The Anti-Capitalist Initiative represents a further liquidationist retreat, writes Peter Manson
Electors in France and Greece strike a blow against austerity
10 May 2012
But, writes Eddie Ford, the call must be to resist the temptation of office. The working class ought to constitute itself as a party of extreme opposition until it is ready to carry out its full programme
Same old failings
10 May 2012
With the Tory-Lib Dem coalition on the ropes and Labour proposing no positive alternative, the left seems incapable of taking advantage. Peter Manson reports
Scandals, austerity and comic diversion
10 May 2012
While rightwing parties were the big losers, there is no sign of a move to the left, writes Toby Abse
Convergence and questions
10 May 2012
What did Lenin expect to arise from the 1912 Prague conference? Paul Le Blanc responds to Lars T Lih on Bolshevism and party-building
A dead end and dishonest initiative
10 May 2012
James Turley and Ben Lewis argue that there can be no short cuts to building the mass, Marxist student movement we need