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
Defend Rees-German and the Left Platform
26 Nov 2009
Peter Manson looks at the organisational moves to pre-empt a full debate, the factional war in the latest Pre-conference Bulletin and the ending of the silence over Jane Loftus
Use it how you want
26 Nov 2009
Is it a petition or a draft manifesto? Nick Rogers attended the grandiosely titled 'convention' to discuss the vagaries of the People's Charter
The fight gets ugly
19 Nov 2009
What does the SWP majority think democracy looks like? asks James Turley
Bring Loftus to account
19 Nov 2009
Dave Isaacson condemns leading SWP members who continually undermine and sabotage attempts to forge rank and file organisation
No coalition with 'son of No2EU'
19 Nov 2009
Issues of left and right are not so clear-cut when it comes to Respect. Mike Macnair reports on its annual conference, held in Birmingham on Saturday November 14
Rival CNWP launched
19 Nov 2009
Another month and yet another call for a halfway-house working class party - this time by the Trotskyist group, Workers Power. Peter Manson is not impressed
We won’t pay for their crisis
12 Nov 2009
Anne Mc Shane reports on a meeting that could be a spark
Nationalist common sense
12 Nov 2009
Nick Rogers attended the No2EU session at SPEWs Socialism event
Confident and boasting of growth
12 Nov 2009
The Socialist Party in England and Wales held its annual school, Socialism 2009, on November 7-8. Tina Becker reports on the opening rally
Marxist party or Labour Party mark two?
12 Nov 2009
SPEW's Socialism event had a session on young people. Laurie McCauley reports and asks what politics the working class needs
Soviet 'planning' and bolt-on democracy
12 Nov 2009
SPEW's Socialism event had a session on Stalinism's collapse. Mark Fischer points out what it represents for Marxists
The working class intellectual and the apparat
12 Nov 2009
James Turley offers an appreciation of the life of Chris Harman, 1942-2009
Open letter to the Socialist Workers Party
15 Oct 2009
Mark Fischer, the CPGBs national organiser, questions the worth of SWP calls for unity
The four wagers of Lenin in 1917
17 Sep 2009
The Bolshevik decision to make revolution was based on four key predictions, or wagers, says Lars T Lih: international revolution, soviet democracy, peasant followership and progress towards socialism. This is an edited version of the third speech he gave to the CPGBs Communist University
Lenin, Kautsky, and 1914
10 Sep 2009
In the second of his talks to the CPGBs Communist University, Lars T Lih takes a closer look at Lenins reaction to the betrayal of German social democracy at the outbreak of World War I