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
Ghosts of 2002, poverty of 2007
26 Apr 2007
The deeply divided French left has only itself to blame for its abysmal results in the presidential election. Peter Manson looks at the continuing decline of the Parti Communiste Français and the bankruptcy of the far left
Link in the chain
19 Apr 2007
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group elaborates his theory of 'democratic permanent revolution'
Party standing on principle
19 Apr 2007
Sajid Mehmood is the Respect candidate for Park ward in the metropolitan district council of Calderdale. Peter Manson spoke to him about his strange route into Respect - via Labour, the Tories and Labour again
Programme, or ad hoc reflections?
19 Apr 2007
Mike Macnair replies to Phil Sharpe on the question of programme
Call to work harder
19 Apr 2007
Will Lindsey German split anti-Tory vote for London mayor? Simon Wells reports on the Respect meeting to select candidates for the Greater London Assembly elections
Putting out the trash
12 Apr 2007
Economic and political interpenetration both internationally and nationally makes a mockery of the Revolutionary Democratic Group's 'democratic permanent revolution'. Mike Macnair concludes his response to Dave Craig of the RDG
Sheridan to back SNP
12 Apr 2007
Both the Scottish Socialist Party and Solidarity are in self-destruct mode, says Peter Manson
SWP backs the mullahs - official
12 Apr 2007
The Socialist Workers Party-backed Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (Casmii) effectively operates as an apologist for the regime sitting in Tehran, says Eddie Ford
Party and programme
05 Apr 2007
The Campaign for a Marxist Party held its first meeting in Sheffield in the form of a day school on March 31. Phil Walden reports
International from the start
05 Apr 2007
Mike Macnair continues his polemic against the 'national democratic revolution' schema of the Revolutionary Democratic Group's Dave Craig
Nationalist blind spot
29 Mar 2007
Sections of the left in Australia and New Zealand are happy to rail against what the US army is doing on the other side of the world, writes Scott Hamilton. But they fall into line when 'our troops' are involved in operations in our own backyard
Clinging to Trotskyist pieties
29 Mar 2007
There is no movement in Britain to set up a new 'mass workers' party', argues Mike Macnair. What can be achieved, however, is a united party of the Marxists
Always imperialist
29 Mar 2007
The third London meeting of the Campaign for a Marxist Party, on Sunday March 25, discussed the disastrous consequences that flow from a flawed reading of Lenin's flawed theory. Mary Godwin reports
Stages, not stageism
22 Mar 2007
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group defends of his theory of 'permanent democratic revolution'
New star recruit Tafazzal Hussain: businessman
22 Mar 2007
Peter Manson on the former Lib Dem council candidate Tafazzal Hussain, who has just joined Respect