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
Bakuninist hatchet job
18 Feb 2016
Mike Macnair takes issue with Dave Douglass over the First International
The problem of unequal abilities
11 Feb 2016
Should socialists aim to offer incentives to the ‘gifted and talented’? Marc Mulholland looks at how the question has been dealt with historically
Devotion to dogma
04 Feb 2016
Sadly, notes Eddie Ford, political madness is not confined to the Workers’ Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought
The real Iowa coup
04 Feb 2016
Thanks to Sanders, a space is opening up for the ideas of Marxism, argues Tom Munday
Missing the bigger picture
04 Feb 2016
Sarah McDonald reports on Left Unity's National Council meeting
Things don’t look good
21 Jan 2016
Peter Manson reports on last weekend’s shambolic London members aggregate
Drowning in oil
21 Jan 2016
The capitalist world economy is fast slowing down. Investors and central bankers worry about a catastrophic crisis. Meanwhile, asks Eddie Ford, does Venezuela’s oil-reliant Bolivarian revolution face its nemesis.
Systems and symptoms
14 Jan 2016
While millions live in dire poverty, the SACP wants us to believe that the main problem is still ‘racism’. Peter Manson reports
Back to Herbert Spencer
07 Jan 2016
Chris Cutrone argues that the libertarian liberalism of the late 19th century still has relevance today
The Davidson papers
07 Jan 2016
Mike Macnair reviews Neil Davidson
A perfectly ordinary, highly instructive document
17 Dec 2015
Lars T Lih introduces Zinoviev’s review of Kautsky’s 1909 book, Path to power
Only one path to socialism
17 Dec 2015
Translation of Grigorii Zinoviev’s review of Path to power
No controversy, please
10 Dec 2015
Peter Manson reports on the PA’s second national delegate conference
When Marx was a reformist
10 Dec 2015
David Douglass reviews: René Berthier Social democracy and anarchism in the International Workers Association 1864-1877 Merlin Press, 2015, pp256, £16.95
Navigating uncharted waters
03 Dec 2015
Ian Birchall examines the deliberations of Comintern’s Third Congress in the aftermath of the 1921 March action