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
A global act of refusal
20 Oct 2011
The Occupy movement has energised politics, writes James Turley. But we must face up to the limits of spontaneity
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
Besancenot: go beyond outdated national borders
06 Oct 2011
Last weekend's Europe Against Austerity event adopted the aim of a 'day of industrial action' across the continent in 2012. Peter Manson reports on the conference's strengths and weaknesses
Mapping the alternative
29 Sep 2011
The workers' movement must begin to act on a European scale, argues Mike Macnair
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
Hideous capitalist system
29 Sep 2011
Mark Fischer on the hunger marches of the National Unemployed Workers Movement
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 hypothesis to change the world
15 Sep 2011
Mike Macnair explains the thinking behind the new version of the CPGB's Draft programme
A triumphant victory?
08 Sep 2011
Claire Fisher and Maciej Zurowski report on the English Defence League demonstration in east London and the response of anti-fascists
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'