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
ULA Ireland: Sectarian self-annihilation
25 Oct 2012
The United Left Alliance has gone into destruct mode. Anne Mc Shane reports
Rifondazione Comunista: Failed refoundation
18 Oct 2012
Toby Abse reviews: Salvatore Cannavo, 'La Rifondazione mancata, 1991-2008: una storia del PRC Edizioni Alegre', Rome 2009, pp223, 14
General strike: Rebuild the movement
18 Oct 2012
The call for a general strike to bring down the government is out of place, writes Mike Macnair
SWP: Annual show of ‘democracy’
11 Oct 2012
This years first Internal Bulletin is a CC dominated token effort at democratic debate. Will this change, wonders Peter Manson?
The Left: There’s no success like failure
11 Oct 2012
Tony Greenstein bemoans the continuing self-marginalisation of Britains far left
TUSC: For a new, united socialist party
04 Oct 2012
Nick Wrack and Will McMahon plead with the SWP and SPEW to take Tusc seriously
Overcoming a false dichotomy
27 Sep 2012
Where does the general election leave the Netherlands? Piet Potlood looks at the contending forces and points to the weakness of the left
New chapter in human liberation
27 Sep 2012
Andrew Coates reviews: Revolutionary History Vol 16, No4: Ian Birchall (guest editor) European revolutionaries and Algerian independence 1954-1962
Nationalism from another angle
27 Sep 2012
Esen Uslu completes his review of the Turkish lefts attitude to the Kurdish question by considering two leftwing thinkers
Why the ship won’t sail
27 Sep 2012
Peter Manson reports on the misplaced efforts to talk up the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition
The HDK enigma
20 Sep 2012
Esen Uslu continues his exploration of the Kurdish question by pointing to the ambiguities in the HDKs democratic autonomy
Rejection of Marxism
13 Sep 2012
Continuing his examination of the various programmes of the Turkish and Kurdish left, Esen Uslu looks at the new-found democratic confederalism of the Workers Party of Kurdistan
An irresponsible split
13 Sep 2012
Differences should be brought out into the light of day, writes Stan Keable of Labour Party Marxists
What kind of party do we need? - Ben Lewis
06 Sep 2012
Fighting on two fronts - Ben Lewis of the CPGB gives his view, taken from a speech to Communist University 2012
What kind of party do we need? - Simon Hardy
06 Sep 2012
Get involved with the ACI -Simon Hardy of the Anti-Capitalist Initiative gives his view on the party we need, taken from a speech to Communist University 2012