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 test of seriousness
19 Mar 2015
Paul Demarty examines responses to the seven questions posed by the Communist Platform to Left Unity candidates, and wonders why many are so reluctant to respond in good faith
Framing our electoral tactics
19 Mar 2015
The March 15 CPGB members’ aggregate debated the forthcoming general election and Left Unity’s internal elections. Daniel Harvey reports
Meaningless noise
12 Mar 2015
Workers Power has made a strange new ally. Daniel Harvey reports
Candidates give their answers
12 Mar 2015
These are the questions posed by the Communist Platform to those standing for the leadership
No magic bullet
05 Mar 2015
Mickey Coulter reports from the Yorkshire regional committee.
Amendments galore, seats decided
05 Mar 2015
Yassamine Mather reports on the February 28 meeting of the national council.
Aims, deals and recommendations
05 Mar 2015
Jack Conrad reports from the Communist Platform’s steering committee
Arguments about Greens
26 Feb 2015
Here we present two reports about Left Unity's debate around the "anti-asuterity alliance". First Peter Manson reports from Greenwich and Lewisham branch
Bolshevism was fully armed
26 Feb 2015
Were Lev Kamenev and Pravda ‘semi-Menshevik’ before Lenin’s return to Russia in April 1917? Lars T Lih looks at what they were saying a month earlier
A misjudged Bonapartist initiative
19 Feb 2015
Jack Conrad urges LU members to protest against leadership violations of our constitution
Wishful thinking rather than hard truth
12 Feb 2015
Stan Keable of Labour Party Marxists was at John McDonnell’s Labour Left Platform roundtable discussion on February 7
Still not too late
12 Feb 2015
It was necessary to confront the defeatism of the left head on at the end of the miners' strike, says Mark Fischer
Did free speech allow the Nazis to come to power?
12 Feb 2015
Eddie Ford criticises the SWP for misunderstanding history and insisting upon the ‘principle’ of no-platforming
A well-ordered militia
05 Feb 2015
The Greens are under attack because of their ‘insane’ attitude towards the army. Meanwhile, observes Jack Conrad, the left continues its cowardly silence
Green-tinted glasses
29 Jan 2015
Despite the membership figures and the hype, notes Micky Coulter, the Green Party's increased popularity is not a sign of good times to come for socialists