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
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
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