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
Socialism: the final shibboleth
29 Jan 2004
Manny Neira attended Sunday's Respect launch. He reflects on soul music, and soul selling
No respect for equality
29 Jan 2004
Jack Conrad on the refusal of Respect to have its MP's on a workers wage thanks to the SWP
Neither fish nor fowl
29 Jan 2004
The unity coalition does not know whether it wants to be a movement or a party, argues Steve Freeman of the Revolutionary Democratic Group
John Rees airbrushes out history
29 Jan 2004
Rees' speech, while full of Panglossian optimism about the big time for the left (read, for the SWP), was actually an epitaph for the SA. Marcus Ström was there
Party and paper split
22 Jan 2004
Blairism and the delabourisation of Labour threw much of the revolutionary left into crisis, the CPB is only now belatedly following, writes Alan Rees
Bureaucratic grip tightens
22 Jan 2004
The London Mayor is in control of preparations for the European Social Forum. Tina Becker reports
Galloway's nationalist gaffe
22 Jan 2004
Cameron Richards reports on the Cardiff meeting of the unity coalition
Britain at the crossroads
22 Jan 2004
The Democracy Platform of the Socialist Alliance has issued an alternative declaration for Respect
Socialism, reform and revolution
22 Jan 2004
Chris Jones of the Revolutionary Democratic Group looks at the role of class struggle in shaping the politics of the 21st century
Left facing both ways
22 Jan 2004
The Socialist Alliance council voted overwhelmingly to engage with the RESPECT unity coalition, reports Peter Manson
Respect and opportunism
22 Jan 2004
Despite the failure of the SA the party question has not gone away: it is simply posed anew in the more difficult subjective conditions of Respect, writes Jack Conrad
Deep factional roots
15 Jan 2004
The special congress of the Mornign Star/CPB will decide whether the organisation will opt for an electoral coalition with other trends on the left, or doggedly remain tied to the auto-Labourism of its British road to socialism programme. Alan Rees takes a look
What about the workers?
15 Jan 2004
Respect's convention on January 25, no matter what its outcome, will merit a minor historical footnote, if for no other reason than the achievment of an unexpected unity of the left - even for one day. Marcus Ström reports
A modest proposal
15 Jan 2004
Manny Neira calls for a review of the democratic centralism practised by our organisation
Turn unity coalition into republican movement
15 Jan 2004
The best the Respect declaration can provide is that rather vague and woolly call for "a world in which the democratic demands of the people are carried out". That is why we say R is for republicanism. Let the working class find out if it is, says Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group