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
Mountains out of molehills
08 Feb 2007
Leading the Alliance for Workers Liberty's typically slippery response to our coverage of the Socialist Youth Network launch conference reveals an organisation in crisis and rapidly moving to the right, says James Turley
It's not what you know but who you know
08 Feb 2007
On January 23 Yasir Idris was selected at a meeting of South West Birmingham Respect to contest the Moseley and Kings Heath ward in the May council elections. He beat the Socialist Workers Party's Helen Salmon by 35 votes to 20. Peter Manson spoke to him
Respect: our new moral guardians
08 Feb 2007
Anne Mc Shane reviews Ariel Levy's Female chauvinist pigs: women and the rise of raunch culture (Pocket Books, 2005, pp240, £7.99)
What sort of programme?
01 Feb 2007
Members of the Campaign for a Marxist Party in the Midlands area met last Saturday (January 22) in Birmingham. Dave Spencer reports
How to fight for party
25 Jan 2007
Around 20 comrades came together for the first London meeting of the Campaign for a Marxist Party on January 21. This took the form of a debate and discussion on the immediate tasks of the CMP, initiated by Mike Macnair of the CPGB and Chris Grey of New Interventions. Peter Manson reports
What now for the Marxist Party campaign?
25 Jan 2007
To call for a Marxist party is to intervene in the movement in a sect way, writes Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group, continuing his reply to Mike Macnair
Don't revive absurd slogans
18 Jan 2007
Lenin's pre-April 1917 'democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry' was unworkable, writes Hillel Ticktin, editor of Critique
Left network launched
18 Jan 2007
Dave Isaacson reports on the January 13 launch conference of Socialist Youth Network, the Labour Representation Committee's youth organisation, at the University of London Union
No to SWP Berufsverbot
18 Jan 2007
To defeat the BNP, we must fight the system - and not call for ballet dancers to lose their jobs, says Jim Moody
The April theses and permanent revolution
11 Jan 2007
The CPGB's 'extreme democracy' presupposes economic inequality, argues Gerry Downing
AWL 'realists' raise their heads above the parapet
11 Jan 2007
Divisions emerge within the AWL over troop withdrawal
No anti-communist witch-hunts
11 Jan 2007
Members of Communist Students have been banned from a new 'open' socialist youth organisation set up by supporters of the John McDonnell campaign. James Turley and Tina Becker report
SWP puritanism
11 Jan 2007
The Socialist Workers Party is fronting a Respect campaign to rid the East End of strip and lap-dancing clubs. Simon Wells reports
The test of 1917
04 Jan 2007
Did events force Lenin to jettison his 'democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry' formulation after the fall of tsarism? Or was this formulation concretised in the republic of workers', peasants' and soldiers' soviets? Jack Conrad continues his study of the communist programme
Kautsky, Lenin and Trotsky
14 Dec 2006
What were the differences, strengths and similarities? Jack Conrad investigates