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Another split, another sect
26 Apr 2012
The left must organise on the basis of genuine democratic centralism, argues Ben Lewis
Open and honest debate
14 Jan 2021
The CPGB’s first online winter school proved to be a real success. James Harvey reports
Meaningful debate absent
07 Jan 2021
Why are Socialist Workers Party members incapable of making serious contributions? Peter Manson looks at the third and final internal bulletin
Dull echo chamber
03 Dec 2020
Genuine debate is something the central committee has long tried to avoid. The end result is a comatosed membership. Peter Manson reviews the second pre-conference bulletin
Youth section will win
26 Nov 2020
The political battle cleaving the Socialist Party has dramatically intensified. Emil Jacobs reports
Supplement
19 Nov 2020
Jonah Martell sets out twelve proposals to transform the Democratic Socialists of America
Bureaucratic control-freakery
12 Nov 2020
The leadership of the Socialist Party is determined to enter a coalition with bourgeois parties and gain well rewarded ministerial portfolios for a few tops. Those who oppose this disastrous line are being expelled, but not silenced. Emil Jacobs reports
Going nowhere fast
05 Nov 2020
Peter Manson lifts the lid on mindless activity, an arid internal life and leadership control-freakery
Smugglers and snakeheads
29 Oct 2020
Advocating non-racist immigration controls not only means lining up with national chauvinism, argues Eddie Ford. It is also self-defeating
No end in sight
29 Oct 2020
Will a Biden victory break the far-right wave? Paul Demarty thinks the Covid-19 economic downturn will fuel irrationality
Amplify the voice
22 Oct 2020
Loes Muller reports on the first meeting of the Marxist opposition in the Socialist Party (Netherlands)
Pathetic confusion
24 Sep 2020
SPEW’s approach to Labour combines classic sectarianism with run-of-the-mill reformism, writes Peter Manson
Assessing Adolph Reed
04 Sep 2020
Jim Creegan looks at the thinking of the American left’s foremost anti-identitarian
Unity and organisational principle
13 Aug 2020
Mike Macnair looks at the regroupment call from Socialist Resistance and Mutiny
Arise, Lady Fox
06 Aug 2020
The Revolutionary Communist Party has gone on an odd journey, writes Eddie Ford. After emerging from the SWP, it has travelled from the Red Front to the Brexit Party - and now the House of Lords
Behind the aircraft
04 Jun 2020
The left is in danger of playing a conservative role over Covid-19. Our aim should be to set the agenda, argues Mike Macnair