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
The Goldsmiths ideology
28 May 2015
The rightwing press campaign against Bahar Mustafa puts the parlous state of student politics under the spotlight, writes Paul Demarty
A year in limbo
21 May 2015
On June 11 2014 Laurie McCauley was suspended from Manchester Left Unity for publicly criticising other members of the branch, but his case has still not been heard. He spoke to the Weekly Worker
Democratic dictatorship vs permanent revolution
21 May 2015
Did Lenin and the Bolsheviks lack a credible strategy? Jim Creegan replies to Jack Conrad
Some hard thinking is needed
21 May 2015
After the general election the left needs to do more than carry on protesting, argues Jack Conrad
A wasteful dead-end
21 May 2015
Left Unity should not agree to stand under the Tusc banner, argues Paul Demarty
Aspiring to what?
14 May 2015
Blairites are flying the flag for ‘aspiration’ - a subject about which they know nothing, argues Paul Demarty
No way to build a fightback
14 May 2015
Peter Manson comments on the left’s results and its delusional self-justification
Socialism will not require industrialisation
14 May 2015
The transition to a new society is possible, argues Mike Macnair
Inconsistent left nationalists
07 May 2015
SPS and the SWP may have refused to vote SNP, writes Peter Manson, but in effect they both cheered on its advance
Court protects Labour corruption
30 Apr 2015
After Lutfur Rahman’s removal as Tower Hamlets mayor, Paul Demarty calls for authentic local democracy
Thinking the alternative
30 Apr 2015
In his third article on the maximum programme, Mike Macnair argues that we can already see aspects of the social goals of communism in the present
No strategy towards Labour
30 Apr 2015
What is the left saying about the general election? Daniel Harvey has been investigating
How not to organise
23 Apr 2015
LU’s unworkable constitution is to be revisited. Sarah McDonald reports on this and other decisions taken by the national council
Before the great betrayal of August
23 Apr 2015
Ralf Hoffrogge Sozialismus und Arbeiterbewegung in Deutschland: von den Anfängen bis 1914 Schmetterling Verlag, 2011, €10, pp216(1)
Lenin’s programme found vindication
23 Apr 2015
Jack Conrad argues that, far from being disproved by 1917, the established strategy of the Bolsheviks was continued and enriched