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A hot autumn too
11 Aug 2022
Things are clearly heading towards a monumental explosion of strikes and protests, writes Eddie Ford
Cliffism to ministerialism
07 Jul 2022
The SWP’s comrades in Ireland are dreaming of joining a ‘broad alliance’ capitalist government led by Mary Lou McDonald’s Sinn Féin. Why does Alex Callinicos so tamely acquiesce to what is a betrayal of elementary principle, asks Anne McShane
Looking to the right
07 Jul 2022
Andrew Byrne reports on the impressions of the target audience and the centre-stage given to Gilbert Achcar and Jeremy Corbyn
Our own programme
16 Jun 2022
Without the working class organising itself into a political party there can be no chance of socialism. But, argues Jack Conrad, without a comprehensive, fully worked-out programme, that party has no chance of navigating the road to socialism and beyond
Jubilee versus democracy
09 Jun 2022
Much of the left fails to take the monarchy seriously. But Eddie Ford reminds the SWP of the shameful moment when it voted against republicanism in Respect so as not to alienate royalists
Spycops and our response
19 May 2022
Much to the shock and outrage of the liberal left, industrial-scale police infiltration has once again been exposed. But, Mike Macnair argues, for the capitalist state this is normal behaviour
Assessing Putin’s gamble
21 Apr 2022
Mike Macnair critiques the idea, common amongst social-imperialists and social-pacifists alike, that modern Russia is a full-blown imperialist power
A farrago of illusions
14 Apr 2022
Social-Putinism and social-imperialism are not our only problem, argues Jack Conrad. There is the curse of social‑pacifism and centrism too
Alex’s greater friend
07 Apr 2022
The SWP is clearly motivated by opportunist considerations, not least the fall-out from the Martin Smith rape scandal. We do not owe politeness to renegades, argues Paul Demarty
Neither 1914 nor 1940
03 Mar 2022
Mike Macnair interrogates the bogus claims made by Paul Mason and Alex Callinicos about imperialism and the Ukraine war
An uncertain situation
20 Jan 2022
Discounting the danger of Islamic reaction is more than stupid. Paul Demarty looks at the Kazakh uprising and the CSTO intervention
The future that ended
16 Dec 2021
Three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the causes and consequences still elude most of the left, writes Paul Demarty
Fun and punishment
16 Dec 2021
Crazily, the government wants to intensify the cruel and unwinnable ‘war on drugs’. Eddie Ford, on the other hand, wants to call it off and legalise all drugs
Thin end of the wedge
02 Dec 2021
We should oppose both the banning of Hamas and its leftwing apologists, writes Eddie Ford
Totally in control
11 Nov 2021
The central committee is looking forward to yet another conference without a peep of opposition from the rank and file. Peter Manson reports on the first of three internal bulletins