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
Renewal of populism
22 Nov 2007
The Galloway version of Respect is taking confidence from its common anti-SWPism, writes Peter Manson. But the lack of clarity inherited from its parent means it cannot be a vehicle for working class advance
Maintaining the pretence
22 Nov 2007
Posing left, pretending to be a victim, but talking only to itself, the SWP's rump of Respect could not raise the tone of its rally-cum-conference beyond the banal. Not only has the SWP lost around 500 members, writes Jim Moody, but its leadership has learnt nothing from the Respect debacle
Hidden from history
22 Nov 2007
Lawrence Parker, The kick inside - revolutionary opposition in the CPGB 1960-1991 2007, £4.00 (+ £1.15 postage), pp75
Fight on two fronts
22 Nov 2007
More than 200 people attended the November 17 conference, 'The first casualty: war, truth and the media today', reports Tina Becker. The SWP's apologetic position on Iran was very much present, as were journalists from the Iranian television channel, Press TV. But contributions from the floor were much more encouraging
Socialists for Labourism
22 Nov 2007
With the hostilities in Respect reaching their messy denouement last weekend, it was almost possible to forget the rather less fiery Socialism school of the Socialist Party in England and Wales. James Turley reports
Salvage operation
15 Nov 2007
There are now two Respects nationally. And in Tower Hamlets - more than anywhere else - this split is replicated on the ground. Simon Wells reports on the latest conflicts
The procedural is political
15 Nov 2007
We must learn to recognise both bureaucratic and legalistic manipulation, writes Mike Macnair
Potential for working class struggle
15 Nov 2007
Hillel Ticktin identifies abstract labour as the key to collectivity in Marx's labour theory of value
Can the SA arise from the ashes?
15 Nov 2007
Dave Craig thinks the Socialist Alliance might have a future
The futility and absurdity of halfway house projects
15 Nov 2007
As both wings of the organisation once known as Respect gather for 'conferences' in London, there is a good deal or hype and unfounded official optimism in the air, says Peter Manson
For realism, for humanity
08 Nov 2007
What is the Marxist method? Hillel Ticktin looks at the main features. This is the first of three articles
Ditch the strategic illusion
08 Nov 2007
Pro-Tehran apologetics in the Stop the War Coalition represents a kind of nostalgia for the 'anti-imperialist front', writes Mike Macnair
Lies cannot stop imperialists
08 Nov 2007
In her speech to the October 27 conference of the Stop the War Coalition, Somaye Zadeh of Campaign Iran tried to counter the imperialist lies about the Tehran regime with misinformation of her own. Yassamine Mather insists upon the truth
Two Respects, two dead ends
08 Nov 2007
John Rees has achieved what he set out to do in provoking a split, writes Peter Manson. But it is a pyrrhic victory, leaving the SWP more isolated than ever
Filling a political gap
01 Nov 2007
Yassamine Mather of Hopi spoke to Mark Fischer after the Stop the War Coalition conference