Party & Programme > The left
Another split, another sect
26 Apr 2012
The left must organise on the basis of genuine democratic centralism, argues Ben Lewis
Alex’s greater friend
07 Apr 2022
The SWP is clearly motivated by opportunist considerations, not least the fall-out from the Martin Smith rape scandal. We do not owe politeness to renegades, argues Paul Demarty
Stay, fight, win
31 Mar 2022
What is going on in the Democratic Socialists of America? Charlie Frank explains the conflict over BDS which is dividing left and right
Next step forward
31 Mar 2022
While the Socialist Party has imploded, new alternatives are emerging. Andries Stroper of the SP’s Communist Platform reports on the recent local elections
Peace-loving liberals for war
31 Mar 2022
The rhetoric of the anti-war movement has been coopted by the war party in the west, argues Paul Demarty
Taking a principled position
24 Mar 2022
Yassamine Mather takes to task the left in the Middle East and north Africa over Nato and Russia’s invasion
A toxic operation
24 Mar 2022
Paul Houston shines a light on the murky origins of the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign
Four anti-war nos
10 Mar 2022
Daniel Lazare welcomes the refusal of the DSA’s international committee to go along with the Democrats’ warmongering
Away with comforting delusions
10 Mar 2022
‘Official communism’ is bitterly divided over the Ukraine war. Paul Demarty traces the battle lines back to their origins
Neither 1914 nor 1940
03 Mar 2022
Mike Macnair interrogates the bogus claims made by Paul Mason and Alex Callinicos about imperialism and the Ukraine war
Here we stand
03 Mar 2022
Not only must social-imperialists and social-pacifists be denounced: Jack Conrad calls for absolute clarity, when it comes to war and peace
A lesson in courage
03 Mar 2022
Anti-war protests in Russia give a glimmer of hope in a perilous situation, argues Paul Demarty
Blindness to empire
24 Feb 2022
As Russia invades Ukraine Britain’s social-imperialists rally to side of Nato. But for socialists the main enemy is at home, argues Paul Demarty
BDS: for or against?
17 Feb 2022
Israeli settler-colonialism and the appropriate solidarity movement with the Palestinians were debated at the February 13 Online Communist Forum. Daniel Lazare argued that the BDS campaign is a cross-class popular front which therefore should be shunned. Mike Macnair stressed the US alliance with Israel, attempts to outlaw BDS and the ongoing witch-hunt against anti-Zionists in the Labour Party
The police and standing army too
10 Feb 2022
The SWP is bad, but the CPB is worse. Jack Conrad critiques the cowardly, tailist, opportunist left and stands by what used to be the uncontroversial call to establish a popular militia
Rightwing ‘Marxism’- a senile disorder
03 Feb 2022
Michael Sommer’s 2014 essay 'Anti-Postone: or, Why Moishe Postone's Antisemitism Theory is Wrong, but Effective' has recently been translated into English by Maciej Zurowski (Cosmonaut Press 2021, Available on Amazon or in the Cosmonaut webstore). A more than useful contribution to the fightback against the ‘anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism’ big lie, which finds its most ‘sophisticated’ justification in the pseudo-Marxist writings of Moishe Postone. Here is the introduction provided by Mike Macnair