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
No case to answer
07 Dec 2000
Socialist Alliance Liaison Committee
07 Dec 2000
Turnout at the December 2 meeting of the Socialist Alliance Liaison Committee was somewhat low. Barely 50 comrades were present, and that included not a few non-voting visitors. Birmingham had the honour of hosting the event. Nevertheless all significant nationally based left groups sent delegates, along with a wide range of the most important local and regional Socialist Alliances. Obviously there was an overlap. Many Socialist Alliances were represented by comrades from the organised left, above all the Socialist Workers Party, which is visibly, though still subtly, flexing its hegemonic muscles.
Socialist Alliance
30 Nov 2000
Last week's by-elections produced excellent results for the left. The Socialist Alliance, standing for the first time in Lancashire, saved its deposit in Preston, while the Scottish Socialist Party polled more than seven percent in the two seats vacated by the death of Donald Dewar in Glasgow Anniesland. Meanwhile the Socialist Party won another seat in a council by-election in Lewisham, south London.
SA roundup
30 Nov 2000
East London Cutting edge
Growing cancer of reformism
30 Nov 2000
Humour has long been used as a political weapon. We have received the following polemical document under the title 'Statement of the International Socialist Movement minority faction'
Which way for SWP?
30 Nov 2000
The Socialist Workers Party published only two pre-conference bulletins this year, containing just 21 contributions from rank and file members. We reproduce two of these, featuring that rarity for the SWP - members engaged in polemic with one another Once more on programme
SWP conference
30 Nov 2000
Missing ingredients A Socialist Workers Party member reflects on this year's gathering
SA Liaison Committee meets
30 Nov 2000
No time to waste
Simon Harvey of the SLP
23 Nov 2000
Scargill damns Socialist Alliance
Socialist Party in England and Wales
23 Nov 2000
Rebel signal This protest letter has been sent to the Socialist Party executive committee and, as a courtesy, to Harry Paterson, who emailed it to the Weekly Worker
Message of despair
23 Nov 2000
Billy Elliot, general release
Republican Communist Network
23 Nov 2000
Anti-nationalist role impaired
SWP - nationalism 'not a problem'
23 Nov 2000
In this internal document, Allan Green, the Scottish Socialist Party's national secretary, reports on the Socialist Workers Party's annual conference
SA roundup
23 Nov 2000
East London Global vision
US presidential elections
23 Nov 2000
Constitutional crisis cries out for clear programme