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
Control the bureaucrats
11 Nov 2004
What are the lessons of Lenin's 1917 pamphlet State and revolution? Not the need for a 'commune state', argues Mike Macnair, but the need for representatives to be made accountable
Imperialism versus internationalism
12 Aug 2004
In this concluding article, Mike Macnair argues that our most powerful enemy is the imperialist state. That is why communists are revolutionary defeatists
Imperialism lives on
05 Aug 2004
In the second of a short series of articles, Mike Macnair examines the role of the state in the global order and looks at alternatives to the 'imperialism of free trade' theory
Economism and the necessity of programme
05 Aug 2004
Jack Conrad argues that the left is crippled by its flattery of economic struggles - and the constant downplaying of the primacy of the political
AWL, Iraq and 'new imperialism'
29 Jul 2004
Mike Macnair argues that the failure of the AWL to call for an immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq is a symptom of their flawed analysis of imperialism
Respecting programme
05 Feb 2004
Jack Conrad contrasts the approach of the Bolsheviks to the tawdry attempts at self-justification by the opportunists in Respect
Bureaucratic fist tightens
05 Feb 2004
Tina Becker reports that the ESF is in great danger of being totally taken over by Ken Livingstone - with the full support of his little helpers in the Socialist Workers Party
Talking to the Weekly Worker
29 Jan 2004
Various figures from across the left and in Respect speak to the Weekly Worker on the official foundation of the unity coalition
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