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
Supplement
19 Nov 2020
Jonah Martell sets out twelve proposals to transform the Democratic Socialists of America
Bureaucratic control-freakery
12 Nov 2020
The leadership of the Socialist Party is determined to enter a coalition with bourgeois parties and gain well rewarded ministerial portfolios for a few tops. Those who oppose this disastrous line are being expelled, but not silenced. Emil Jacobs reports
Going nowhere fast
05 Nov 2020
Peter Manson lifts the lid on mindless activity, an arid internal life and leadership control-freakery
Smugglers and snakeheads
29 Oct 2020
Advocating non-racist immigration controls not only means lining up with national chauvinism, argues Eddie Ford. It is also self-defeating
Break with managerialism
29 Oct 2020
Martin Thomas’s response to Neil Faulkner misuses history to defend the bankrupt model of confessional sects, argues Mike Macnair
No end in sight
29 Oct 2020
Will a Biden victory break the far-right wave? Paul Demarty thinks the Covid-19 economic downturn will fuel irrationality
Overcoming group identity
22 Oct 2020
Marc Mulholland evaluates Karl Kautsky’s thesis on the nomadic origin of classes and the state
Amplify the voice
22 Oct 2020
Loes Muller reports on the first meeting of the Marxist opposition in the Socialist Party (Netherlands)
Historical muddle, theoretical overkill
22 Oct 2020
Continuing his response to Neil Faulkner, Mike Macnair rejects the myth of the ‘Zinovievist’ origin of democratic centralism
Zinoviev in Halle
15 Oct 2020
To mark the centenary of the pivotal Halle congress of the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany on October 20 1920, Ben Lewis looks at the lead-up to and consequences of Grigory Zinoviev’s marathon four-hour speech
Heroes and sinners
15 Oct 2020
Mike Macnair argues that Neil Faulkner’s ‘great men’ approach to the party question is utterly useless
Programmeless liquidationism
08 Oct 2020
Neil Faulkner’s interpretation of Lenin is based on stunningly bad history, argues Mike Macnair
Up the CPGB Bolshies
01 Oct 2020
William Sarsfield concludes his series on the founding of the CPGB 100 years ago
High politics and the working class
01 Oct 2020
Neil Faulkner and Martin Thomas falsify the party question, albeit in different ways, argues Mike Macnair
Pathetic confusion
24 Sep 2020
SPEW’s approach to Labour combines classic sectarianism with run-of-the-mill reformism, writes Peter Manson