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
Only game in town
20 May 2010
Mark Fischer was at the 'After the election ... Join the resistance' event
John for leader
20 May 2010
Labour activists are urging a speedy response to the NEC's deadline
Programme of renewal
20 May 2010
What next for the Labour left? Mark Fischer spoke to Graham Bash of Labour Briefing
Friend, comrade, and occasional sparring partner
20 May 2010
Obituary: Peter Heathfield, March 2 1929 - May 4 2010. David Douglass celebrates his life
McDonnell blocked by NEC bureaucrats
20 May 2010
Despite the current ascendancy of the right, Labour is likely to see a shift to the left, argues Peter Manson
Left results: full breakdown
13 May 2010
Leave aside their opportunist politics - candidates standing for left-of-Labour organisations managed to get results that barely register statistically. Collated by Jim Moody
So much for 'social weight'
13 May 2010
The far left vote has gone from the tiny to the statistically insignificant, writes Eddie Ford
Abysmal day for non-Labour left
13 May 2010
The performance of non-Labour working class candidates on May 6 was woeful. Peter Manson and John Masters report on the candidates, the figures and the excuses
The left and the 2010 general election
06 May 2010
What programmes, manifestos and policies did the left offer on May 6? Our chart shows that, compared to the CPGB's 'Draft programme', there is a distinct lack of vision, a national narrowness, and a morbid desire to recreate old Labour
Banksters versus the people
06 May 2010
Steve Freeman looks back at the election campaign in Bermondsey and Southwark, where he stood as an independent socialist
Shrill voices and social weight
06 May 2010
Peter Manson finds social weight is a commodity all of the left lacks
Unity on the agenda?
06 May 2010
Bob Davies stirs discussion at a Tusc meeting
Overcoming passivity
29 Apr 2010
Bob Davies faced apathy, indifference, and hostility to politics while canvassing
Posing to the left
29 Apr 2010
Nancy Platts is the Labour candidate for Brighton Pavilion, where she is opposed by Green Party leader Caroline Lucas, not to mention Arthur Scargill's Socialist Labour Party. While the CPGB will not recommend a vote for the petty bourgeois Greens, we will support any Labour candidate who meets our two conditions: opposition to all cuts in public services and an immediate withdrawal of British troops from Afghanistan. Peter Manson spoke to her
Labour's black sheep
29 Apr 2010
Laurie Smith went canvassing for John McDonnell