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Hidden from history
Where next for the SACP?
20 Sep 2018
As the ANC continues to lose support, Peter Manson looks at the dilemmas of the ‘official communists’
Grappling with the party question
13 Sep 2018
Mike Macnair looks at two very different documents from two very different organisations
A failure of definition
09 Aug 2018
Jack Conrad argues that the left is crippled by its fixation on economic struggles and the downplaying of high politics
Sowing dragon's teeth
26 Jul 2018
Is Leon Trotsky’s Transitional programme the last word when it comes to the Marxist programme? Or does it represent regression in Marxist terms? Jack Conrad argues against the economism of Trotskyism
Irrational optimism
12 Jul 2018
Mike Macnair responds to Rex Dunn’s arguments about Trotskyism and May 1968
Oppose siren calls
05 Jul 2018
Some on the ‘left’ insist on running with People’s Vote and its call for a second EU referendum. Once again Jack Conrad argues that Marxists ought to condemn referendums. We favour representative democracy and working class political independence
Cold war nostalgia
17 May 2018
Mike Macnair looks at the AWL’s version of ‘socialism’ and finds it wanting
Wonderful yet underperformed
10 May 2018
Jack Conrad looks back at the May-June events that rocked France 50 years ago
Pulling the handbrake
12 Apr 2018
How revolutionary were the bourgeois revolutions? Neil Davidson spoke to Communist University about the lessons for today
Supplement: Biography of a sister slogan
05 Apr 2018
The demand for the ‘publication of the secret treaties’, which represented a key turning point in support for the Bolsheviks, predated the April theses by several weeks, writes Lars T Lih. This is the seventh and concluding part of the series, ‘All power to the soviets!’
In enemy hands
05 Apr 2018
The barrage of lies about Labour’s anti-Semitism ‘problem’ shows we badly need an alternative labour movement media, argues Paul Demarty
The struggle continues
22 Mar 2018
After the surrender of Afrin, Esen Uslu says that the Turkish left and Kurdish movement must unite in opposition to Erdoğan
Walking the tightrope
22 Mar 2018
Jim Creegan looks at the quandary posed by Jacobin magazine and the new DSA
Too early to celebrate
01 Mar 2018
Iain McNicol gone, JLM calling the police, rumours about Ken Livingstone being reinstated … But it’s not all plain sailing for the left, warns Carla Roberts of Labour Party Marxists
Why revive a stinking corpse?
15 Feb 2018
Jack Conrad questions the worth of the ‘Labour4Clause4’ campaign being promoted by Socialist Appeal. Instead of fostering illusions in Fabian socialism, surely the task of Marxists is to win the Labour Party to Marxist socialism