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
Victim of 'democracy'
26 Jan 2006
SW Kenning comments on SWP paranioa and the witch-hunting of one of their own members
Making a difference?
26 Jan 2006
Salma Yaqoob's politics have more to do with mainstream liberalism than with socialism, says Alan Fox
New SA council meets
19 Jan 2006
The first meeting of the Council of Socialist Organisations was held on January 14. The council was set up by the Socialist Alliance at its conference last November. Its aim is to provide a forum for discussion and coordination between SA affiliated organisations, local SAs and the SA executive. Pete Mc Laren reports
Completing Marx's project
19 Jan 2006
Communist Party comrades in London recently began a collective study of Beyond 'Capital', written by Michael A Lebowitz. The author argues that Capital, taken alone, is one-sided, given Marx's intention to also write a book on wage-labour. The incompleteness of Marx's work has helped produce a left whose theory is distorted and characterised by economism and programmatic narrowness. Mark Fischer spoke to the comrade in Venezuela, where he currently lives. He began with a description of his personal evolution as a communist
SWP bites its lip
19 Jan 2006
The Socialist Workers Party is deeply uneasy about George Galloway's antics in the Big brother house - but it was them who gave him carte blanche to be a free agent in the first place, says Peter Manson
Faith schools too hot for SWP
12 Jan 2006
The left must takes this issue seriously, says Michelle Euston. After all, faith schools are envisaged in the government's white paper on education as a wedge to break up comprehensive education system
Rumblings of rebellion
12 Jan 2006
SW Kenning reports on last weekend's SWP conference
Bolivia shifts left
12 Jan 2006
Which effect will Evo Morales' victory have on the working class and the political landscape in South America? Eddie Ford takes a closer look
Take control of the Bolivarian revolution
12 Jan 2006
Nick Rogers disputes Paul Hampton's assertion that the Chavez regime is Bonapartist and calls for a radical transfer of power to the working class
Maverick George Galloway offends SWP sensibilities
12 Jan 2006
George Galloway's decision to try his hand at 'reality' TV as a Big brother contestant has thrown Respect and the Socialist Workers Party into disarray, to put it mildly. Peter Manson reports
Learning from defeat
12 Jan 2006
Panayotis Yulis is a representative of the Network for Political and Social Rights in Greece (Epohi), which works with immigrants and political prisoners. He is a member of the Greek Social Forum and on the organising committee for the ESF in Athens
Dying on its feet
12 Jan 2006
Around 150 people gathered in the Konferenzhaus in Vienna to prepare for the next European Social Forum, which will take place in Athens on May 4-7 2006. Rifondazione Comunista's turn to government hung over the event like a Damocles sword - together with an unwillingness to take any decisive steps forward. Tina Becker fears that we might be witnessing the beginning of the end of the ESF as a vehicle for international cooperation
Why I intend to stand
05 Jan 2006
The SWP's John Molyneux explains why he is standing against the Central Committee's recommended slate
Reply to Molyneux
05 Jan 2006
The SWP's Central Committee responds to the troublesome John Molyneux
Church and state against women's rights
05 Jan 2006
Will Italy's Rifondazione Comunista risk upsetting their coalition partners-to-be by defending women's rights? Anne Mc Shane reports from the struggle over abortion rights in Italy