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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
Bernstein’s assault on ‘orthodoxy’
22 Sep 2016
Marc Mulholland examines the revisionist attack on class politics and the three most important responses. Clearly this dispute was about more than ‘reform’ versus ‘revolution’
Media: old and new
15 Sep 2016
What is the impact of technology on the mass media? How can the left overcome its marginality in the public discourse? Should we trust Google searches? Paul Demarty addressed the past, present and future of the media at this year’s Communist University
Lexiteers all at sea
15 Sep 2016
Both the Morning Star’s CPB and SPEW advocate immigration controls and socialism in one country, notes Mike Macnair
Apologists for Zionism
08 Sep 2016
Tony Greenstein introduces his open letter to Labour MP Joan Ryan
Time running out fast
08 Sep 2016
Capitalism is a system unfit to cope with the ecological crisis, writes Eddie Ford
An Open Letter
08 Sep 2016
Tony Greenstein addresses Labour MP Joan Ryan
ANC in disarray
08 Sep 2016
While the ruling party is riven by factions, writes Peter Manson, the SACP too is deeply divided
End the bans and proscriptions
01 Sep 2016
Once the Labour Party was characterised by tolerance and inclusion, all working class organisations were welcome - no longer. James Marshall of Labour Party Marxists explores the history
Two Noam Chomskys
01 Sep 2016
Chris Knight discusses his new book, where he contrasts Chomsky, the principled political activist, with Chomsky, the military researcher
Burying the scandal
01 Sep 2016
The western media has shown little interest in new revelations about the slaughter of political prisoners in 1988, reports Yassamine Mather
After the Brexit vote
25 Aug 2016
Mike Macnair argues that very little has become clearer since late June
Different plot twists, same ending
25 Aug 2016
Jim Creegan shows that there is nothing progressive about the Hillary Clinton’s platform
Trotspotting: a field guide
25 Aug 2016
Tom Watson is worried about ‘infiltrators’: Jim Grant of Labour Party Marxists is less than impressed with his conspiracy theories
Sources, streams and confluence
25 Aug 2016
Ben Lewis offers some thoughts on the origins of democratic centralism
Voting for the right lizard
04 Aug 2016
Who’s afraid of president Trump? Not Paul Demarty