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
Cross-class alliances endanger the struggle against Mugabe
22 Mar 2007
The past week has seen a stepping up of imperialist propaganda against the regime of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, especially in the US and UK. But what is the situation on the ground? Peter Manson spoke to Mike Sambo, national coordinator of the International Socialist Organisation Zimbabwe
Debate SWP won't have
22 Mar 2007
The March 20 'people's assembly', billed by the Stop the War Coalition as "the debate parliament won't have", was, of course, nothing of the sort. Phil Kent reports
Solidarity and SWP's favourite anti-semite
15 Mar 2007
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign wants to have it both ways over saxophonist Gilad Atzmon and the Deir Yassin Remembered group. Tony Greenstein (a founder member of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign and a member of Jews Against Zionism) reports on the annual general meeting
Opportunism in Irish conditions
15 Mar 2007
Socialist Workers Party (Ireland) held its Marxism 2007 event in Dublin over the weekend of March 10-11. The event reflects, as it does in Britain, the current political and organisational state of the SWP. Anne Mc Shane reports
CMP steps up a gear
15 Mar 2007
Peter Manson reports on the first national members' meeting of the Campaign for a Marxist Party
Shambolic scramble for candidates
08 Mar 2007
Cameron Richards reports on the March 6 election meeting of Respect Wales, which was attended by the grand total of 13 people
Nationalist squabbles
08 Mar 2007
On Saturday March 3 both the Scottish Socialist Party and Solidarity held one-day policy conferences in Glasgow to finalise their respective manifestoes for the May 3 election to the Scottish parliament. Peter Manson comments
ISG split over Respect
01 Mar 2007
In January, two leading members of the International Socialist Group, Alan Thornett and John Lister, left the officers' group that heads the Respect national council. Others in and around the ISG-dominated paper/front Socialist Resistance have quit Respect altogether. Jim Moody reports
Fountains and fireworks
01 Mar 2007
Lawrence Parker reviews Raphael Samuel's The lost world of British communism (Verso, 2006, pp244)
Messenger or message?
01 Mar 2007
Peter Manson reports from the February 24 Stop the War Coalition demonstration in London
What kind of programme?
22 Feb 2007
Mary Godwin reports from the second London meeting of the Campaign for a Marxist Party, held on Sunday February 18
One step forward, no steps back
15 Feb 2007
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group outlines his theory of 'democratic permanent revolution'
Heads in the sand
15 Feb 2007
Yassamine Mather reports on the Stop the War Coalition's Scottish conference - which missed the opportunity to seriously discuss the question of Iran
Farewell to veteran communist activist
08 Feb 2007
Gill Emerson and David Turner are amongst the friends and comrades who are mourning the veteran communist Reg Weston, who died on January 26 2007, aged 93, following a short illness
Nationalism versus Marxism
08 Feb 2007
The Campaign for a Marxist Party held its first Glasgow public meeting on Saturday February 3. It took the form of a debate entitled 'The way forward for the left', featuring Hillel Ticktin for the CMP; Jack Ferguson of the Scottish Socialist Party's executive committee; Gordon Morgan, national treasurer of Solidarity; and Yassamine Mather of the Hands Off the People of Iran campaign. Peter Kennedy reports