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 must take itself seriously
01 Dec 2011
Anne McShane argues that the United Left Alliance must take a lead
Left rhetoric and reformist illusions
01 Dec 2011
The 1891 Erfurt programme adopted by the Social Democratic Party of Germany was regarded as a 'return to Marxism', writes Ben Lewis. If only the same could be said of Die Linke's 2011 version
Zig-zagging social imperialists
01 Dec 2011
What determines the Alliance for Workers' Liberty line is its support for 'democratic imperialism', writes socialist blogger Arthur Bough
SUPPLEMENT: Classical Marxism and the general strike
24 Nov 2011
Socialism or barbarism
24 Nov 2011
The left must reorganise and reorientate, argues John Bridge. Otherwise the consequences will be dire
Anatomy of an embarrassment
24 Nov 2011
The appearance of 'The protocols of the elders of Zion' on a Morning Star bookstall has provoked a storm of criticisms. Harley Filben wonders what all the fuss is about
Appearances are everything
24 Nov 2011
Peter Manson reports on the SWP's obsession with numbers regarding its latest recruiting front
Non-political politics
17 Nov 2011
Michael Copestake has been talking to the occupiers at Sheffield Cathedral
Kautsky: From Erfurt to Charlottenburg
10 Nov 2011
Ben Lewis introduces Karl Kautsky's 'Guidelines for a socialist action programme'. This is the first published English translation
Kautsky: 'Guidelines for a socialist action programme'
10 Nov 2011
The renegade holds out the hand of friendship to the right, while trying to justify his past
No ambition, no vision
10 Nov 2011
As the unions prepare for the biggest strike since 1926, the SWP cannot see further than recruiting to itself. Peter Manson reports on its second internal bulletin
ILP left looks to CPGB
10 Nov 2011
These two questions of parliamentarianism and dictatorship of the proletariat must be settled by you in no ambiguous manner, writes Tom Bell
Principled opposition, not constitutional cretinism
03 Nov 2011
Mike Macnair explains what is wrong with 'a Labour government for its own sake'
Keeping it small
03 Nov 2011
Tina Becker argues that we urgently need to start the process of building a real political alternative
Lenin and the United States of Europe
03 Nov 2011
Jack Conrad takes issue with the attempt to recruit Lenin to the CPB nationalist camp