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
Multitude or working class?
20 Nov 2003
European Social Forum: Multitude or working class?, Antonio Negri, co-author of Empire, was a star attraction
Lutte Ouvrière stays away
20 Nov 2003
European Social Forum: Lutte Ouvrières boycott is very much to be regretted
Political horse-trading
20 Nov 2003
European Social Forum
European Social Forum: soundbites
20 Nov 2003
Only 100,000; Scots missed; Cassen castigated;
Democrats form platform
12 Nov 2003
Some 30 people - varying over the course of the day - met in Birmingham on Saturday November 8 to form a Democracy platform in the Socialist Alliance. Mike Macnair reports
Keeping left out
12 Nov 2003
Cameron Richards reports from the launch of John Marek's new party in Wrexham
Globalise Resistance and the politics of manipulation
12 Nov 2003
Ian Donovan looks at this strange front of the Socialist Workers Party
But is the platform republican?
12 Nov 2003
The Socialist Alliance minority that gathered for Saturday's meeting is by no means as united as the debates and votes appeared to show. Steve Freeman was there
Overturn party ban
12 Nov 2003
The participation of political parties has become one of the most controversial issues within the ESF, says Tina Becker
End the left's disunity
12 Nov 2003
Tina Becker highlights the main issues facing the ESF in Paris
Britain to host ESF 2004
12 Nov 2003
Tina Becker on the prospects and problems
Why Attac tries to apply brakes
12 Nov 2003
Under the leadership of the French organising committee, the ESF has made a sharp turn to the right. Tina Becker explains
Holding the line
06 Nov 2003
Marcus Ström reports about the formation of a democracy platform in the Socialist Alliance
Communist Party ducks the question
06 Nov 2003
The SA's 2001 general election manifesto, People before profit, is a republican socialist programme, argues the RDG's Dave Craig. Militant republicanism should be the basis of the alliance's opposition pro-party democracy platform
In the full glare of secrecy
06 Nov 2003
Amidst little fanfare and some secrecy, Welsh assembly member John Marek will formally launch a new party in Wrexham on Saturday November 8. Cameron Richards reports