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
Working class project for Spanish America
01 Dec 2005
Nick Rogers looks at the contradictions in the Bolivarian revolution and calls for the building of workers' unity across the continent to defend and extend the gains won in Venezuela
DSP split over future
01 Dec 2005
Greg Adler, former national executive member of the Australian Socialist Alliance, looks at the dispute within Democratic Socialist Perspective, the dominant SA group
A world to save! A world to win!
01 Dec 2005
Jack Conrad looks at climate change and the programme that communists should advance
Socialist Worker: is it doing its job?
24 Nov 2005
Dave Crouch expresses disquiet over the relaunched SWP paper
United democratic opposition needed
24 Nov 2005
Principled communists and socialists should start working together in order to combat accustions of islamophobia and treachery, says Anne Mc Shane
Rightist liquidation threatens
24 Nov 2005
Ian Mahoney reviews the SWP's Pre-conference bulletin
Bizarre, upside-down politics
24 Nov 2005
Peter Tatchell responds to the implied SWP charge of racism and islamophobia against him and Outrage
A dead parrot - not quite
24 Nov 2005
Non-aligned Respect member Sean Thompson expresses his fear that the project is being killed by SWP control-freakery
Gay rights 'shibboleth'
24 Nov 2005
Was it just an oversight that gay and lesbian rights did not feature in Respect's election manifestio? Apparently not, as the debate at conference showed. Peter Manson reports
A strange amalgam
24 Nov 2005
Respect's second annual conference took place over the weekend of November 19-20. But what is Respect, asks Peter Manson - a party or coalition? In fact it is a chimera, a multi-headed beast which is regularly redefined by its leaders according to needs and circumstances
Decision time for SWP
17 Nov 2005
The Socialist Workers Party is still refusing to take responsibility for two of their members who voted for the scandalous pension deal in the PCSU: Martin John has resigned from the party and no action has been taken against Sue Bond. Lee Rock, national secretary of the PCSU Socialist Caucus, reports
We're small but we're back
17 Nov 2005
Pete McLaren and Steve Freeman report on a meeting to revive the Socialist Alliance. Both are officers in the new formation
SP rival to Respect?
17 Nov 2005
Joni Wells reports on the Socialist Party's Campaign for a New Workers Party
Reviving left reformism
17 Nov 2005
The Socialist Party in England and Wales is recruiting and in buoyant mood, writes Peter Manson. Its November 12-13 weekend school demonstrated that sectarianism brings short-term advantages
Open the borders
17 Nov 2005
Respect conference delegate David Isaacson explains why he will be supporting resolution 31, which would committ Respect to "oppose all borders"