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
No alternative posed
03 Nov 2011
Anne Mc Shane sees the economy and the failing capitalist system as the central question in Ireland
Finding a wide resonance
27 Oct 2011
Simon Wells is impressed by what he has witnessed outside St Paul's cathedral
A better version of social democracy
27 Oct 2011
At its conference in Erfurt on October 21-23, the German left party Die Linke agreed a new programme. Edith Bartelmus-Scholich reports
Hot autumn in New York
20 Oct 2011
Jim Creegan reports on the occupiers who aim to take on Wall Street and examines the implications for left politics
A global act of refusal
20 Oct 2011
The Occupy movement has energised politics, writes James Turley. But we must face up to the limits of spontaneity
Black Bloc allowed to wreck protest
20 Oct 2011
The spontaneism of the 'horizontalists' was completely exposed in Rome, writes Toby Abse
Not so memorable
13 Oct 2011
The decline in the anti-war movement has left the STWC all at sea, argues Harley Filben
The tiny cog and its mechanical mindset
13 Oct 2011
Peter Manson reviews the first of three SWP pre-conference bulletins
Overcoming sectarianism
13 Oct 2011
Pat Byrne was the last of three comrades to address the CPGB's Communist University in a session entitled 'They fuck you up, the left'. This is an edited version of his speech
Imputed consciousness and left organisations
06 Oct 2011
Andy Wilson was part of a panel of three comrades who addressed the CPGB's Communist University in a session entitled 'They fuck you up, the left'. This is an edited version of his speech
Besancenot: go beyond outdated national borders
06 Oct 2011
Last weekend's Europe Against Austerity event adopted the aim of a 'day of industrial action' across the continent in 2012. Peter Manson reports on the conference's strengths and weaknesses
Mapping the alternative
29 Sep 2011
The workers' movement must begin to act on a European scale, argues Mike Macnair
Leninist assumptions and cult hierarchies
29 Sep 2011
Simon Pirani was part of a panel of three who addressed the CPGB's Communist University under the title of 'They fuck you up, the left'. This is an edited version of his speech
Hideous capitalist system
29 Sep 2011
Mark Fischer on the hunger marches of the National Unemployed Workers Movement
Organising for an alternative vision
22 Sep 2011
Student unions are not like trade unions, argues Mike Macnair. Unity must be built primarily around politics, not 'student issues'