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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
Keeping it small
03 Nov 2011
Tina Becker argues that we urgently need to start the process of building a real political alternative
Lenin and the United States of Europe
03 Nov 2011
Jack Conrad takes issue with the attempt to recruit Lenin to the CPB nationalist camp
No alternative posed
03 Nov 2011
Anne Mc Shane sees the economy and the failing capitalist system as the central question in Ireland
Finding a wide resonance
27 Oct 2011
Simon Wells is impressed by what he has witnessed outside St Paul's cathedral
A better version of social democracy
27 Oct 2011
At its conference in Erfurt on October 21-23, the German left party Die Linke agreed a new programme. Edith Bartelmus-Scholich reports
Hot autumn in New York
20 Oct 2011
Jim Creegan reports on the occupiers who aim to take on Wall Street and examines the implications for left politics
Black Bloc allowed to wreck protest
20 Oct 2011
The spontaneism of the 'horizontalists' was completely exposed in Rome, writes Toby Abse
Not so memorable
13 Oct 2011
The decline in the anti-war movement has left the STWC all at sea, argues Harley Filben
The tiny cog and its mechanical mindset
13 Oct 2011
Peter Manson reviews the first of three SWP pre-conference bulletins
Overcoming sectarianism
13 Oct 2011
Pat Byrne was the last of three comrades to address the CPGB's Communist University in a session entitled 'They fuck you up, the left'. This is an edited version of his speech
Imputed consciousness and left organisations
06 Oct 2011
Andy Wilson was part of a panel of three comrades who addressed the CPGB's Communist University in a session entitled 'They fuck you up, the left'. This is an edited version of his speech
Leninist assumptions and cult hierarchies
29 Sep 2011
Simon Pirani was part of a panel of three who addressed the CPGB's Communist University under the title of 'They fuck you up, the left'. This is an edited version of his speech
Organising for an alternative vision
22 Sep 2011
Student unions are not like trade unions, argues Mike Macnair. Unity must be built primarily around politics, not 'student issues'
Die Linke booted out
22 Sep 2011
After 10 years, the German left party has been voted out of the Berlin city coalition government, reports Tina Becker. But instead of criticisms of its participation there are calls for a show of false 'unity' to win back support
A victorious debate
08 Sep 2011
The 1920 Halle congress of the Independent Social Democrats of Germany (USPD) was a turning point for our movement. It was also a moment of triumph for Grigory Zinoviev. This is an excerpt from Ben Lewis's introduction to a new book, 'Zinoviev and Martov: head to head in Halle'