Party & Programme
End the cycle of splits
24 May 2012
If the left is to build a serious political organisation it will have to facilitate internal dissent, writes Mike Macnair. And that will require both majorities and minorities to act responsibly
Definitely His Party now
05 Mar 2026
With Gorton and Denton, Jeremy Corbyn jumped on the Green bandwagon. Where he might simply want an election deal, many will go the whole hog and take out membership. Carla Roberts reports on a very expensive CEC election campaign and the suffocating control-freakery
Beware of Sparts bearing gifts
26 Feb 2026
We have a common view that open polemics, as sharp as may be necessary, are essential to any lasting, any worthwhile unity. However, there are those who object. Mike Macnair replies to Vincent David of the Spartacist League
Those who do the counting
26 Feb 2026
Shedloads of members’ money was spent on a red-baiting election campaign. Grassroots Left remains committed to fight for the kind of socialist, democratic and anti-Zionist party that is urgently needed. Carla Roberts reports
Drag towards bureaucracy
19 Feb 2026
Grassroots Left is discussing how the party can be run democratically and what to do to ensure that CEC members are properly held to account. Carla Roberts explains
Not red on the inside
12 Feb 2026
Corbyn’s faction cannot provide clear voting advice. Nor can SPEW. Zarah Sultana urges a Green vote. So does the social-imperialist ACR. The SWP calls for election deals with ‘principled leftwing Greens’. Jack Conrad calls for independent, working class politics
Red-baiting by HQ
12 Feb 2026
Despite the expulsions and unhinged attacks, Grassroots Left is on course to win a majority. Fearing defeat, the embattled Corbyn clique has gone into panic mode, says Carla Roberts
Factions, nameswitching and unity
05 Feb 2026
Communist Unity is the relaunched Revolutionary Communist Organisation, and as a bonus it has the Spartacist Tendency on board as a recognised faction. Mila Volkova reports on conference discussions, alignments and votes
Our politics needs light
05 Feb 2026
Corbyn’s clique does not recognise branches, refuses to release membership data, holds fake consultations, insists on secret meetings, demands confidentiality and is unable to issue a clear, unambiguous political statement on Gorton and Denton - all reasons why socialists should support the Grassroots Left, says Carla Roberts
General strikes and insurrection
05 Feb 2026
Marking the centenary of the 1926 General Strike, Jack Conrad looks at Russia’s 1905 ‘dress rehearsal’. Following Bloody Sunday, the revolution took the form of mass demonstrations, general strikes, peasant uprisings, the formation of soviets and armed barricade fighting
Approaches to the General Strike
22 Jan 2026
Class was pitted against class. The question of state power was posed. Anyone serious about achieving socialism in Britain must painstakingly and critically study the May 3-12 1926 General Strike. Marking the centenary, Jack Conrad begins a series of articles
Yet another witch-hunt
22 Jan 2026
Corbyn’s The Many list is stuffed full of careerists, acolytes and the slightly deranged. Meanwhile, using all the Labour Party techniques, left candidates are being barred from standing. A bad omen, warns Carla Roberts
As you were
22 Jan 2026
Despite belatedly dumping the ‘gang of four’ over the 2013 rape scandal, the popular frontist politics remains. So does the lack of openness and obsession with secrecy. Paul Demarty looks at the paradox of change and continuity
Their days were numbered
15 Jan 2026
Deindustrialisation and reliance on commodity exports makes any independent economic policy impossible, argues Michael Roberts. Certainly the unpopularity of the Maduro regime was closely linked to the falling price of oil
Secrets, spin and smears
15 Jan 2026
Factional differences are being fought out using the state machine, unattributable media briefings and bureaucratic information control. Mike Macnair investigates the latest attack on Zarah Sultana and her associates
Off to a bumpy start
15 Jan 2026
Carla Roberts urges the Grassroots Left slate to change track, open up and reject calls for confidentiality and secrecy. Transparency is not a weakness, but a strength