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
Low-key rally
07 Dec 2006
Dave Isaacson reports from the so-called 'conference' of Student Respect, which attracted no more than 80 people - a reflection of the state of the organisation nationally
Permanent revolution and state power
07 Dec 2006
As Jack Conrad shows, the Marx-Engels theory of permanent revolution does not preclude the workers' party participating in government
Chávez landslide
07 Dec 2006
After Chávez's victory in the presidential election, Venezuela is at the crossroads, writes Nick Rogers. The working class must assert its political independence
SWP accommodates to Scottish nationalism
07 Dec 2006
The Scottish Socialist Party and Solidarity are striving to become junior partners of the Scottish National Party, writes Jim Moody
No strategy for free education
07 Dec 2006
Trotskyite economism?
30 Nov 2006
Leon Trotsky's Transitional programme is based on the communist method of Lenin and the Russian Bolsheviks, writes Gerry Downing
Red and green
30 Nov 2006
Do you have to be red to be green?' was a debate between Pete Dickenson of the SP and the Green Party's 'male principal speaker', Derek Wall. Simon Wells reports
Programming the Russian revolution
30 Nov 2006
Like German social democracy, Bolshevism had a minimum-maximum party programme. It was their DNA. But, asks Jack Conrad, was their programme irretrievably flawed, as argued by Tony Cliff and the SWP?
Manchester warning
30 Nov 2006
The potential for Student Respect in alliance with the Federation of Student Islamic Societies to make a breakthrough in student politics - and the contradictory results this would have for political and social life on the campuses - has been illustrated by the spat on Manchester University's Student Direct. Emily Bransom reports
No resolutions, no democracy
30 Nov 2006
Dave Isaacson reports on the forthcoming 'conference' of Student Respect
Democracy east and west
30 Nov 2006
Leading SP member Paula Mitchell presented a scary vision of socialism in the session, 'Why the Soviet Union wasn't socialist and how democracy would work under socialism'. Tina Becker was there
The transition to socialism
30 Nov 2006
Hillel Ticktin, editor of Critique, examines some of the central elements of Marx's theory about the future society
Dead ducks and Labour pains
30 Nov 2006
Entitled 'New Labour after Blair - can it be shifted left or is a new workers' party needed?' this meeting illustrated that the Socialist Party has a deeply problematic stance in relation to the Labour Party. Lawrence Parker reports
Islamists and infidels
30 Nov 2006
Seyyed Ferjani from the Muslim Association of Britain and SP member Jim Hensman debated the rather broad question, 'Which way forward for Britain's muslims?' Not surprisingly, the meeting lacked a certain focus - but also highlighted the SP's confused and inadequate position on democratic questions, says Helen Broadhurst
Whatever happened to the CNWP?
30 Nov 2006
Socialism 2006, the Socialist Party's annual school, was held over the weekend of November 25-25 at the University of London Union. But the Campaign for a New Workers' Party hardly featured, reports Tina Becker