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
A promising start
11 Apr 2019
Peter Manson welcomes the formation of the Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party in South Africa
Transparency and solidarity
04 Apr 2019
Mike Macnair looks at the procedural questions that precipitated the collapse of the ISO
Taaffe goes for the throat
04 Apr 2019
It is increasingly obvious that the crisis in the CWI is a lamentable attempt to force a split. Paul Demarty wonders who will fall for it, and whether the ‘tradition of the Militant’ is strong enough to survive
Time to end the tailism
28 Mar 2019
With the United Kingdom in the grip of a profound constitutional crisis, Jack Conrad says the left must reject referendums as a matter of principle. Instead we need our own programme and our own tactics
A basic necessity
21 Mar 2019
Tony O’Brien: ‘Tackling the housing crisis with publicly owned construction by direct labour organisations’, self-published, 2018, pp200, £10
Another round of splits
21 Mar 2019
It is a case of ‘Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose’ for Peter Taaffe’s beleaguered sect. Anne McShane and William Sarsfield look at the mounting problems in the CWI
No longer part of left
14 Mar 2019
The AWL is clearly in alliance with Tom Watson and the Labour right, argues Tony Greenstein
Women’s rights and class struggle
07 Mar 2019
Forty years ago Iranian women rebelled against the Islamic government. We should not only remember their struggle: we should uphold the original aims of International Women’s Day, says Yassamine Mather
A classic case of CIA subversion
28 Feb 2019
Why is Juan Guaidó still at liberty? Paul Demarty diagnoses the lack of revolutionary backbone
Commitment and collectivity
28 Feb 2019
René Gimpel continues his examination of the conflict between Jean-Paul Sartre’s political and philosophical passions
Individualism or class struggle?
21 Feb 2019
René Gimpel examines the philosophical and political development of Jean-Paul Sartre, and his fraught relationship with the French Communist Party
The spectre of socialism
14 Feb 2019
Paul Demarty casts a critical eye over the rise of self-styled socialists in the Democratic Party
Forty years of inequality
14 Feb 2019
The US administration preferred Islamists to leftists, says Yassamine Mather
Next on Trump’s list
08 Feb 2019
Events in Venezuela amount to an imperialist coup attempt - but the left still draws no lessons from the failures of the ‘Bolivarian revolution’. Paul Demarty investigates
The Tory interpretation
31 Jan 2019
Mike Macnair argues that there is an institutional bias in the teaching of history. It is a bias that suits the agenda of those who believe in inequality, the natural order and firm government