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
Galloway on the airwaves
16 Mar 2006
Carey Davies reports on Talk Sport's newest presenter
'Marxists' for another Labour Party
16 Mar 2006
The March 19 launch of the Socialist Party's Campaign for a New Workers' Party went according to plan, writes Peter Manson. The 450 comrades who signed up to its founding declaration overwhelmingly voted for the SP's plans for a Labour Party mark two.
MDC split offers opportunity for left
09 Mar 2006
Zimbabwe's opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, has formally split. The MDC was originally set up by trade union leaders, including former Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions president Morgan Tsvangirai, but was soon taken over by pro-imperialist elements. Former MDC MP Munyaradzi Gwisai, a leading figure in the Socialist Workers Party's sister grouping, the International Socialist Organisation, assesses the current situation
Charter of platitudes
09 Mar 2006
The Friday before the EPA saw meetings of the 10 or so ESF networks. Potentially the most important is the one that is has been drafting the 'Charter of principles for another Europe'
Fight for a Marxist party
09 Mar 2006
The Socialist Party's campaign for a new workers' party must be put on firm Marxist foundations, says Ian Mahoney
Money launderers, political corruption, minor celebrities and our antidotes
09 Mar 2006
Eddie Ford comments on the furore around Tessa Jowell and George Galloway's reinvention as a radio host
Approaching crisis point
09 Mar 2006
The European Social Forum is in real danger of disintegrating. All democrats and communists must work hard to prevent this. Despite our many criticisms of the process, it is currently the only real avenue that exists for the cooperation of the European left. Tina Becker and Ben Lewis report from the latest preparatory meeting in Frankfurt, which took place from March 3-5
McCombes strategy provokes reaction
09 Mar 2006
Sandy McBurney, a member of the SSP's Workers Unity platform, gives his assessment of the weekend
Left nationalists at the crossroads
09 Mar 2006
A much divided Scottish Socialist Party held its annual conference in Dundee on March 4-5. Nick Rogers was there
Shades of Stalinism
02 Mar 2006
It is impossible not to observe a distinct taint of Stalinism in the reaction of the Socialist Workers Party to the recent controversy over the Danish cartoons, writes Lawrence Parker. This raises an ominous question mark over the SWP's ability to constructively engage with cultural production
Allying with the nationalists
02 Mar 2006
Nick Rogers looks at the key issue before this weekend's SSP annual conference
How many more careerists?
02 Mar 2006
In Tower Hamlets, a prospective local elections candidate has resigned from Respect. Peter Manson reports
Britain's drystone wall
02 Mar 2006
Can the British constitution be reformed? Not without mass political action by the working class, argues Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group
Revolutionary strategy and Marxist conclusions
23 Feb 2006
In the second in a series of articles, Mike Macnair continues his examination of right-moving Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire theorists and the response of the SWP's Alex Callinicos
Censorship rally
23 Feb 2006
Yvonne Ridley