Party & Programme > The left
Another split, another sect
26 Apr 2012
The left must organise on the basis of genuine democratic centralism, argues Ben Lewis
Wider solution needed
09 Nov 2023
The SWP is championing a single-state Palestine using mistaken comparisons with apartheid South Africa. When it comes to Israel-Palestine, there is no bourgeois democratic solution, writes Eddie Ford
Named after the leaderene
26 Oct 2023
Sahra Wagenknecht is that rarest of rare things - a popular politician - and she is set on a split with Die Linke and going her own way. Carla Roberts takes a look at her BSW project
Following the national road
12 Oct 2023
Defeat for the SNP in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election is probably a foretaste of what will happen in the general election, yet much of the left still clings to petty nationalism. Mike Macnair offers a radical alternative
Not much left of the left
05 Oct 2023
So many rival projects and not a serious idea amongst the lot of them. A week ahead of the Liverpool conference, Carla Roberts looks at what little remains of the once mighty Corbyn movement
Mr Griffiths goes to Beijing
07 Sep 2023
Showered with all manner of treats, the CPB’s gensec is a credulous fanboy of China’s ‘socialist modernisation’, writes Paul Demarty
Anti-Semitism of useful idiots
31 Aug 2023
We need a principled defence of free speech and a firm grasp of geo-strategic realities. Mike Macnair discusses the case of David Miller
No call for staying calm
20 Jul 2023
Paul Russell looks back at the disgusting record of police savagery and gives his take on the challenges faced by the left in the next presidential election
Point of no return
06 Jul 2023
Temperature records fall one after the other. Things are on course to get worse, not better. Clearly stunts are not enough, we need to get serious about system change, writes Eddie Ford
Supplement: Back to Nevsky!
06 Jul 2023
Lars T Lih uses an eyewitness account to dispose of some old myths and to show how, if they were to rewin their majority, the Bolsheviks had to adjust to the shock of finding themselves in a minority
Still with us in our hearts
15 Jun 2023
Fred Carpenter December 28 1952 - May 18 2023
Charting a difficult course
08 Jun 2023
How to move the DSA away from the Democratic Party’s left fringes? The answer lies in democratic centralism. Parker McQueeney answers Red Labor
Labour and Lubner’s millions
08 Jun 2023
Starmer’s new megadonor threatens to outweigh the influence of the unions, argues Paul Demarty
Confessions of a rat
01 Jun 2023
Yassamine Mather gives her judgement on an extraordinary talk and subsequent BBC interview with the former governor of the notorious Evin prison
Witch-hunt grows
18 May 2023
While some on the disoriented left will support ‘anyone but Labour’, writes Carla Roberts, Momentum and what remains of the official Labour left beg Sir Keir for unity
Party, unions and programme
11 May 2023
Kent Kiser and Awi Blanc of the Red Labor Caucus take issue with Parker McQueeney and call for the DSA to make an immediate ‘clean break’ with the Democratic Party