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
Left Unity: Arms and our moderate speaker
22 May 2014
Jack Conrad takes issue with Salman Shaheen’s cowardly rejection of the demand for a popular militia
Left unity: Playing happy families
22 May 2014
The protracted regroupment talks between Socialist Resistance, the International Socialist Network and others continue; as does their political confusion, writes Paul Demarty
Safe spaces cotton wool
22 May 2014
Tina Becker reports on the development of the Sheffield branch of Left Unity
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels for the masses
22 May 2014
Joseph Kessel calls for the works of the founding fathers of scientific socialism to become the ‘property’ of the workers’ movement as a whole, not the subject of bourgeois copyright laws
EU elections: Trying to vote internationalist
22 May 2014
Peter Manson outlines how to approach the May 22 EU elections
Clara Zetkin: Preached principle, promoted unity
22 May 2014
Marilyn J Boxer and John S Partington (eds) Clara Zetkin: national and international contexts Socialist History Society occasional publications, series No31, pp118, £7
Left Unity: Political clarity first
22 May 2014
The Communist Platform is standing four candidates in regional elections to the NC; Mark Fischer explains where and why
NUS: Autonomist bankruptcy
17 Apr 2014
The SWP stall at this year's NUS conference was attacked by 'anarchists'
True to revolutionary social democracy
17 Apr 2014
It is sometimes claimed that Lenin retired from political activity at the start of World War I in order to rethink the foundations of Marxism. In this extract from his contribution to a book to be published later this year, Lars T Lih argues that nothing could be further from the truth
Serious approach demanded
17 Apr 2014
We publish the response of the ISN to the CPGB's suggestion of discussions around revolutionary unity
No2EU: Back into our shells?
10 Apr 2014
No2EU represents a regressive form of left nationalism, writes Peter Manson
The 'new era of war and revolution'
10 Apr 2014
Did the outbreak of World War I cause Lenin to break with the ‘Marxism of the Second International’? In this extract from his contribution to a book to be published later this year, Lars T Lih argues that the opposite was the case
SWP: Sign of the times
04 Apr 2014
What’s wrong with ‘paraphernalia’, asks Tom Munday
Left Unity: 'Moderate' party takes shape
04 Apr 2014
The new formation has adopted its first policies. Peter Manson reports on the LU conference
The new moral panic
27 Mar 2014
Charles Gradnitzer looks at the most recent move to further ostracise the SWP