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
Heading for another victory
31 Jan 2019
With the ANC consolidating its position, there is a huge vacuum to its left, observes Peter Manson. But who will attempt to fill it?
Socialism and the national question
17 Jan 2019
Genuine liberation for Palestinians and Israelis alike must be seen in the context of an Arab and global revolution, argues David Markovich
Marxism versus holy script
10 Jan 2019
There are those on the left who still insist, for their own peculiar reasons, on getting the history of Bolshevism and the Russian Revolution radically wrong. Jack Conrad replies to Jim Creegan
The will to liberate
10 Jan 2019
Neglect of the woman question in the early Soviet republic was not the result of isolation and economic backwardness, argues Anne McShane
Different perspectives, different objectives
20 Dec 2018
Both Lars T Lih and Jack Conrad are wrong when it comes to the history of Bolshevism, argues Jim Creegan
A sad state of affairs
20 Dec 2018
Peter Manson looks at what passes for internal debate in the run-up to the SWP conference
Working class trade policy
20 Dec 2018
Mike Macnair concludes his series on ‘free trade’ by looking at the positive alternative
He who pays the piper
13 Dec 2018
Why are the billionaire Koch brothers funding Spiked, whose origins lie in the Revolutionary Communist Party? Eddie Ford looks at a strange journey from far left to alt-right
Competition and cooperation
06 Dec 2018
Review of 'Elinor Ostrom’s rules for radicals' by Derek Wall, Pluto Press, 2017, pp160, £16.99
Little cause for optimism in Italy
06 Dec 2018
The left is fragmented, directionless and in total disarray, writes Toby Abse
Left tails of liberal bourgeoisie
29 Nov 2018
He who pays the AEIP piper calls the AEIP tune, says Jack Conrad
Immigration: ignoring the problem
29 Nov 2018
Fighting for open borders means facing up to the reality of mass migration, argues Paul Demarty
Free-trade tailism
22 Nov 2018
The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty has enlisted a clipped version of Marx and Engels to serve its political agenda. In the first of two articles Mike Macnair looks at the claims of free trade and protectionism
Theories that kill
22 Nov 2018
Thomas Klikauer looks at the connection between ‘fake news’ and the far right
Revolutionary Germany: how did the right of the left react?
08 Nov 2018
On November 9 1918, the kaiser abdicated and Germany became a republic. One hundred years later, we publish - thanks to Ben Lewis’s translation - abridged passages from the rightwing social democratic leader, Philipp Scheidemann