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
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
Stuff ‘single person’ leadership
04 May 2023
Despite its ostensible archaism, the coronation of Charles III reflects the thoroughly modern practice of one-man management, argues Mike Macnair
Take inspiration from Cromwell
04 May 2023
Enough of platonic republicanism, enough of fickle republicanism, enough of egg-throwing republicanism, says Jack Conrad . We need a militant fight for republican democracy
Chasing after cabinet seats
27 Apr 2023
Sinn Féin looks set to become the biggest party after the next general election. Anne McShane lambasts its PBP would-be coalition partner
All power to the 3.5%?
20 Apr 2023
The SWP cheers on those committed to minority, isolated actions such as blowing up pipelines, not those who stress programme, class politics and using elections to win majority support, writes Eddie Ford
We cause offence
23 Mar 2023
Following the lead of the liberal bourgeoisie, the dominant section of the left takes a ‘free speech, but ...’ approach. Jack Conrad defends the unrestricted right to organise, strike, assemble … and speak
From order to chaos
23 Mar 2023
Why has so much of the left collapsed into social-imperialism? Why the continued illusions in US intervention? Mike Macnair talked to Hands off the People of Iran in a meeting hosted by Yassamine Mather