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 new beginning?
20 Sep 2018
Marcel van der Linden examines the state of the global labour movement
Grappling with the party question
13 Sep 2018
Mike Macnair looks at two very different documents from two very different organisations
From Postgate to Barthélemy
06 Sep 2018
Marc Mulholland tells the story of a French revolutionary hanged for murder in London in 1855
Left in disunity
06 Sep 2018
Dave Vincent looks at the strange battle for assistant general secretary
A failure of definition
09 Aug 2018
Jack Conrad argues that the left is crippled by its fixation on economic struggles and the downplaying of high politics
Dead end of intersectionality
02 Aug 2018
Only the working class can unify the oppressed, argues Mike Macnair. This is an edited version of his talk at the July 29 London Communist Forum
Demanding a consensus
26 Jul 2018
What will result from the SACP’s call for a ‘reconfigured alliance’ with the ANC? Peter Manson reports on the party’s continuing divisions
Sowing dragon's teeth
26 Jul 2018
Is Leon Trotsky’s Transitional programme the last word when it comes to the Marxist programme? Or does it represent regression in Marxist terms? Jack Conrad argues against the economism of Trotskyism
Tactics, principles and willing dupes
19 Jul 2018
What attitude should the left take to the People’s Vote campaign and its call for a second referendum? Jack Conrad insists that referendums are a backward, not a forward step for democracy
Big Meeting lives on
19 Jul 2018
David Douglass reports on the134th Durham Miners Gala
End the farce
12 Jul 2018
Surely it is time to join the fight to transform the Labour Party, writes Peter Manson
Irrational optimism
12 Jul 2018
Mike Macnair responds to Rex Dunn’s arguments about Trotskyism and May 1968
Getting beyond capitalism
05 Jul 2018
Mike Macnair completes his critique of intersectionality and identity politics
Oppose siren calls
05 Jul 2018
Some on the ‘left’ insist on running with People’s Vote and its call for a second EU referendum. Once again Jack Conrad argues that Marxists ought to condemn referendums. We favour representative democracy and working class political independence
Mistaken versions of Maoism
28 Jun 2018
Two books on intersectionality reviewed: 'How we get free: black feminism and the Combahee River Collective' by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Haymarket, 2017, pp191, £9.70) and Asad Haider's 'Mistaken identity: race and class in the age of Trump' (Verso, 2018, pp132, £9.90)