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
Party notes: Democratic centralism unites and directs
21 Aug 2003
Jack Conrad continues the debate on revolutionary organisation following discussion at the CPGB's Communist University
London's unlikely champion of dissent
01 May 2003
A successful and positive launch of the Greenwich Stop the War Coalition put paid to those pundits who say the anti-war movement has evaporated with the conquest of Iraq, says Marcus Ström
I'm so excited: Socialist Workers Party
01 May 2003
Example to follow?: Scottish Socialist Party
01 May 2003
Bureaucracy and confusion in Berlin
01 May 2003
Over the weekend of April 27-28 some 350 people from 180 organisations attended the latest gathering to prepare for the 2003 European Social Forum in Paris (November 12-16). This time it was the turn of Berlin to act as host. Tina Becker reports
Respectable twin of ANL
01 May 2003
Around the web: Searchlight
A brief history of lying
01 May 2003
If Galloway proves to be innocent, he will join a large club of those who have been maligned by the intelligence services and the press for political reasons. A few examples:
Gloves come off
01 May 2003
By coming after George Galloway, the bourgeois media is trying to tarnish the whole anti-war movement, says Manny Neira
Anatomy of the hard left
01 May 2003
For the tens of thousands of people mobilised against the war on Iraq who have been drawn towards political action for the first time, the myriad of groups on the far left must seem bewildering. Ian Mahoney supplies a rough guide to a few of the more prominent
Could have been a contender: Socialist Party
01 May 2003
Going camping: Alliance for Workers' Liberty
01 May 2003
Pipe and slippers: International Socialist Group
01 May 2003
Australian echoes
01 May 2003
As in Britain, the Australian Socialist Alliance has been paralysed by the stubborn determination of one group in particular to prevent the alliance becoming a party.Dave Riley, a member of the Australian SA Non-Aligned Caucus, gives his view on the type of party it should become
Movement needs openness
01 May 2003
Andrew Murray and Lindsay German, who effectively form the leadership of the Stop the War Coalition, put the movement in a bad political light this week when they acted as dyed-in-the-wool bureaucrats determined to stifle openness, accountability and democracy, reports Anne Mc Shane
Slogan wars
01 May 2003
Jack Conrad discusses the problems of the left when it comes to opposition to an attack on Iraq