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Taking a principled position
24 Mar 2022
Yassamine Mather takes to task the left in the Middle East and north Africa over Nato and Russia’s invasion
Four anti-war nos
10 Mar 2022
Daniel Lazare welcomes the refusal of the DSA’s international committee to go along with the Democrats’ warmongering
Disarray over abortion
06 Jan 2022
Anne McShane looks at the right’s assault on abortion in the US, the DSA’s abstentionism and the shameful record of what still passes for the left
Getting BDS and DSA right
16 Dec 2021
Not surprisingly, last week’s article by Daniel Lazare, ‘Taking a pass on Israel’, has caused some considerable controversy. Thankfully, three well-informed comrades have written replies. Needless to say, our sympathies are fully with the critics
Taking a pass on Israel
09 Dec 2021
Daniel Lazare denounces the DSA’s unprincipled stand on congressman Jamaal Bowman and controversially questions the whole BDS movement
It will not fall from the sky
04 Nov 2021
Donald Parkinson of the Marxist Unity Slate looks at the 2021 convention of the Democratic Socialists of America and maps out a path beyond the current strategic impasse
Through a feminist filter
05 Aug 2021
Gaby Rubin reviews 'Ethel Rosenberg: a cold war tragedy' by Anne Sebba
Build on solid foundations
24 Jun 2021
Socialists need a programme, but not just any old programme. Donald Parkinson of Cosmonaut magazine and the Marxist Unity Slate in the Democratic Socialists of America sets out the history and great advantages of the minimum-maximum programme
American ‘Blue Labour’?
15 Apr 2021
Mike Macnair reviews 'Virtue hoarders: the case against the professional managerial class' by Catherine Liu
Labour’s latest Waterloo
15 Apr 2021
The defeat of the campaign for union recognition at Amazon is not as straightforward as might be thought, argues Daniel Lazare
A minimum-maximum programme
11 Mar 2021
This is the mission statement of the Marxist Unity Slate - a set of proposals for the 2021 convention of the Democratic Socialists of America. The aim is to achieve democratic discipline and principled election campaigns, as well as uniting Marxists around a vision of a mass working class socialist party
Open and honest debate
14 Jan 2021
The CPGB’s first online winter school proved to be a real success. James Harvey reports
Supplement
19 Nov 2020
Jonah Martell sets out twelve proposals to transform the Democratic Socialists of America
Assessing Adolph Reed
04 Sep 2020
Jim Creegan looks at the thinking of the American left’s foremost anti-identitarian
Lessons being learned
12 Mar 2020
Elements of the US left have at last awoken to the possibilities opened up by Bernie Sanders, writes Paul Demarty.