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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
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.
Contradictory impasse
12 Dec 2019
Peter Manson reports on the SACP’s December 9-12 special national congress.
Political zombification
28 Nov 2019
Mike Macnair finds the second pre-conference discussion bulletin a sad but revealing read...
High politics and the left
22 Nov 2019
Calls to focus on the economy and crude ‘tax the rich’ slogans actually play into the hands of UK capital, says Mike Macnair.
Not the end of history
15 Nov 2019
With the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall bourgeois triumphalism feels more brittle than ever, says Paul Demarty.
Keeping firm on basic principles
09 Nov 2019
Hands Off the People of Iran has issued the following statement on its decision to remove John McDonnell as its honorary president
Pretence of democracy
31 Oct 2019
Peter Manson reports on the first of three SWP pre-conference internal bulletins.
LAW statement
31 Oct 2019
Recoiling from the challenge
31 Oct 2019
Carla Roberts of Labour Party Marxists is puzzled by the decision of the Labour Representation Committee
In turmoil over Brexit
24 Oct 2019
The economy is set for a hammering, but the left seems determined to learn nothing, writes Anne McShane.
More power to members
24 Oct 2019
The furore over the parliamentary selection process and the restructuring of Jeremy Corbyn’s office show that Labour HQ is still focussing on the top, says Carla Roberts of Labour Party Marxists.
Still deadlocked
20 Sep 2019
As Israel moves further and further to the openly racist far right, there is no longer any room for a hypocritical Zionist left that talks equality and practises ethnic cleansing, writes Tony Greenstein.