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
Two alternatives
09 Feb 2020
James Marshall discusses the clear choice facing the Sheffield conference of the Labour left.
An exercise in futility
31 Jan 2020
For the leadership of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign it as though the last four years of ‘anti-Semitism’ smears and the defeat of Jeremy Corbyn had not happened. Tony Greenstein reports on the AGM.
Lessons of Corbynism’s defeat
24 Jan 2020
How to overcome the impediments to communist consciousness? Rex Dunn takes issue with Mike Macnair.
Our attitude to Europe
09 Jan 2020
A long-standing member of the Communist Party of Britain has tried to start an open debate using the ‘normal channels’. Though this letter was sent to the CPB, the Morning Star and Communist Review in December 2019, it has neither been printed not even acknowledged
The great moving right show
09 Jan 2020
Characterising the Johnson government as ‘fascist’ provides some sections of the left with the excuse they need to collapse into broad frontism and class collaborationism, Mike Macnair presents his case
Not much to say
19 Dec 2019
Peter Manson is saddened, but not surprised, by the extraordinarily low level of what passes for debate.
Contradictory impasse
12 Dec 2019
Peter Manson reports on the SACP’s December 9-12 special national congress.
World revolution had arrived
28 Nov 2019
This article is based on a talk given by James Harvey to Communist University 2019.
Our alternative perspective
28 Nov 2019
James Marshall of Labour Party Marxists critiques the ‘defence and security’ section of the 2019 manifesto.
Political zombification
28 Nov 2019
Mike Macnair finds the second pre-conference discussion bulletin a sad but revealing read...
High politics and the left
22 Nov 2019
Calls to focus on the economy and crude ‘tax the rich’ slogans actually play into the hands of UK capital, says Mike Macnair.
Not the end of history
15 Nov 2019
With the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall bourgeois triumphalism feels more brittle than ever, says Paul Demarty.
Keeping firm on basic principles
09 Nov 2019
Hands Off the People of Iran has issued the following statement on its decision to remove John McDonnell as its honorary president
Pretence of democracy
31 Oct 2019
Peter Manson reports on the first of three SWP pre-conference internal bulletins.