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
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
A faction is not a party
03 May 2012
Did the Bolsheviks seek to create a 'party of a new type' in 1912? Lars T Lih looks at the historical record
Ditch sects and fronts
03 May 2012
Last Saturday's launch of the Anti-Capitalist Initiative provided further evidence of an increasingly fractured, rightward-drifting left. Ben Lewis reports
Sectarian stumbling block
03 May 2012
Anne McShane reports on the future of the Irish ULA
Perspectives for the left
03 May 2012
Where does George Galloway's election victory leave us? What does the CPGB say about recent resignations from its ranks? Michael Copestake reports on last weekend's aggregate meeting of members
Another split, another sect
26 Apr 2012
The left must organise on the basis of genuine democratic centralism, argues Ben Lewis
ULA: opportunity to lead
26 Apr 2012
The United Left Alliance conference this weekend comes at an important juncture in Irish politics. Anne Mc Shane takes a look.
Wide open for the class
19 Apr 2012
What is class-consciousness? Paul B Smith discusses the possibility of a political revival
Momentum builds behind France's third man
12 Apr 2012
Jean-Michel Edwin calls for critical support for Melenchon in this months presidential election
Presaging the 21st century
12 Apr 2012
Paul Mason, Why it is kicking off everywhere: the new global revolutions Verso 2012, pp244, £12.99,reviewed by Mark Kosman
Galloway shows what can be done
05 Apr 2012
How can the left make the most of the Bradford West result? Peter Manson joins the debate
1912 and 2012
05 Apr 2012
Paul Le Blanc argues that the Bolsheviks constituted themselves as a separate party at the Prague conference and advocates a 'united front' for today's disunited Marxist left