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
Fight on two fronts
10 Aug 2006
July 29 saw the official launch of the election campaign for the September 17 Berlin regional elections, where the local WASG (Electoral Initiative for Labour and Social Justice) and the governing Linkspartei.PDS are to stand against each other. Ben Lewis reports from Germany
What sort of 'Marxist party'?
03 Aug 2006
A new formation must avoid from the start all the failings of the Trotskyist sects, writes Mike Macnair
Keeping silent over 'offensive' film
03 Aug 2006
Huw Bynon reports on the protests surrounding the film version of Monica Ali's novel Brick Lane - and wonders why Respect and the Socialist Workers Party will not comment
Fight for two states, fight for Arab unity
03 Aug 2006
A 'secular, democratic Palestine' has suddenly made a reappearance in Socialist Worker, writes Peter Manson. But it turns out that what is envisaged will be neither democratic nor secular
Nationalist myths are not Marxism
27 Jul 2006
Jack Conrad argues against the Scottish Socialist Party's claim that Scotland is an oppressed nation, an English colony. Prior to the 1707 Act of Union Scotland was not a nation
High on rhetoric, low on solutions
20 Jul 2006
Tina Becker reports on the Stop the War Coalition's July 17 conference on the situation in the Middle East
SWP apologetics for reactionary anti-imperialism
20 Jul 2006
Eddie Ford comments on Socialist Worker's recent coverage of the unfolding situation in Somalia
Soldier of the legion of the rear guard
20 Jul 2006
Liam O Ruairc reviews Robert W White's Ruairi à Brádaigh: the life and politics of an Irish revolutionary, Indiana 2006, pp412, £18.99
Defending national socialism is not Marxism
20 Jul 2006
Jack Conrad begins an extensive reply to Bob Goupillot with an examination of the principle of 'one state, one party' and its history
Different roads to unity
20 Jul 2006
Should 'one state, one party' be applied to Britain in current political circumstances? Bob Goupillot of the Republican Communist Network (Scotland) and the Scottish Socialist Party argues that the unity of the working class can at present best be served by a separate party for Scotland
Reports from Marxism meetings
13 Jul 2006
Friend or foe?
Reports from Marxism meetings
13 Jul 2006
'Muslims and the left today'
Reports from Marxism meetings
13 Jul 2006
'The fight for gay liberation in the Middle East'
The real resistance
13 Jul 2006
Popular opposition to anti-semitism saved thousands of Jews under Nazi occupation, writes Tony Greenstein in this concluding article - despite rather than because of Zionism
Reports from Marxism meetings
13 Jul 2006
Facing two ways on a woman's right to choose