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
Pro-Kremlin socialists
28 Apr 2022
Social-imperialism and social-pacifism are not our only problems, argues Jack Conrad. There is also a left that tails, excuses and flatters the Putin regime
Pro-war socialists
21 Apr 2022
In the name of ‘critical support’ for ‘Russian defence’ of Donbas, Tony Greenstein attacks Gilbert Achcar, Anti-Capitalist Resistance and the so-called Fourth International
Assessing Putin’s gamble
21 Apr 2022
Mike Macnair critiques the idea, common amongst social-imperialists and social-pacifists alike, that modern Russia is a full-blown imperialist power
Forgive us our trespasses
21 Apr 2022
Establishment celebrations of the Kinder Scout mass trespass of 1932 brush over its communist politics. Lawrence Parker puts the record straight
Hold the line
21 Apr 2022
The left in France should not be panicked into voting for Emmanuel Macron, writes Paul Demarty
SUPPLEMENT: Imperialism and the state (Part IV)
14 Apr 2022
There can never be a world capitalist state. Hierarchy and inequality between many states is an inevitable feature of capitalism
A farrago of illusions
14 Apr 2022
Social-Putinism and social-imperialism are not our only problem, argues Jack Conrad. There is the curse of social‑pacifism and centrism too
The biters bitten
14 Apr 2022
James Harvey of Labour Party Marxists asks why the AWL has been proscribed when it has given such unstinting service to the right in promoting the ‘anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism’ big lie
SUPPLEMENT: Imperialism and the state (Part III)
07 Apr 2022
Capitalism produces huge wealth and huge inequalities, both of which play a role in recurring crises
Resistance to war fever
07 Apr 2022
Amidst the suffocating establishment consensus, Toby Abse welcomes the relatively principled position taken by much of the Italian left
Alex’s greater friend
07 Apr 2022
The SWP is clearly motivated by opportunist considerations, not least the fall-out from the Martin Smith rape scandal. We do not owe politeness to renegades, argues Paul Demarty
Stay, fight, win
31 Mar 2022
What is going on in the Democratic Socialists of America? Charlie Frank explains the conflict over BDS which is dividing left and right
Next step forward
31 Mar 2022
While the Socialist Party has imploded, new alternatives are emerging. Andries Stroper of the SP’s Communist Platform reports on the recent local elections
Peace-loving liberals for war
31 Mar 2022
The rhetoric of the anti-war movement has been coopted by the war party in the west, argues Paul Demarty
SUPPLEMENT: Imperialism and the state (Part II)
24 Mar 2022
The capitalist state is a form of joint-stock operation. It is, in origin, a joint venture of the bourgeois revolutionaries