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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
Transcending convention
07 May 2020
Neil Davidson: October 9 1957-May 3 2020
Lenin avatars
30 Apr 2020
Mike Macnair looks at the treatment of the 150th anniversary of Lenin’s birth in some of the left press
Death of a radical intellectual
20 Mar 2020
Yassamine Mather celebrates a brave and outspoken critic of the Islamic regime.
Socialist Fight’s split
20 Mar 2020
Gerry Downing has dropped his support for Ian Donovan’s anti-Semitic theories about a pan-national Jewish-Zionist bourgeoisie. But, asks Tony Greenstein, what took him so long?
Lessons being learned
12 Mar 2020
Elements of the US left have at last awoken to the possibilities opened up by Bernie Sanders, writes Paul Demarty.
Still in denial
06 Mar 2020
It is all very well for the SWP to condemn Weinstein, writes Paul Demarty, but what about the legacy of its own rape scandal?
Crooked formulations
23 Feb 2020
No human is illegal, says the Morning Star. But, notes Eddie Ford, the paper goes on to argue that not all humans should be legal.
Stalin’s ‘united front’ party
13 Feb 2020
The treacherous role of the Tudeh Party after the 1979 revolution is well known. In the first of two articles, Yassamine Mather shows how the origins of its opportunism were bound up with the diplomatic interests of the Soviet Union.
George’s marvellous medicine
13 Feb 2020
The pro-Brexit Workers Party is a strange amalgam. But asks Paul Demarty, can it make an impact?
Two alternatives
09 Feb 2020
James Marshall discusses the clear choice facing the Sheffield conference of the Labour left.
An exercise in futility
31 Jan 2020
For the leadership of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign it as though the last four years of ‘anti-Semitism’ smears and the defeat of Jeremy Corbyn had not happened. Tony Greenstein reports on the AGM.
Lessons of Corbynism’s defeat
24 Jan 2020
How to overcome the impediments to communist consciousness? Rex Dunn takes issue with Mike Macnair.
Our attitude to Europe
09 Jan 2020
A long-standing member of the Communist Party of Britain has tried to start an open debate using the ‘normal channels’. Though this letter was sent to the CPB, the Morning Star and Communist Review in December 2019, it has neither been printed not even acknowledged
The great moving right show
09 Jan 2020
Characterising the Johnson government as ‘fascist’ provides some sections of the left with the excuse they need to collapse into broad frontism and class collaborationism, Mike Macnair presents his case
Not much to say
19 Dec 2019
Peter Manson is saddened, but not surprised, by the extraordinarily low level of what passes for debate.