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Another split, another sect
26 Apr 2012
The left must organise on the basis of genuine democratic centralism, argues Ben Lewis
SWP: How did this bloody mess come to pass?
18 Jul 2013
Marxism, the annual school of the SWP, saw a revamped opposition, reports Mark Fischer
Socialist Appeal: Waiting for the class to move
11 Jul 2013
Stan Keable of Labour Party Marxists reports on Socialist Appeals third Marxist summer school
SWP: Opposition flexes its muscles
11 Jul 2013
The leadership got its disciplinary vote, writes Paul Demarty. But then it pathetically backed down
SWP leadership: Laughable history produces laughable results
11 Jul 2013
Jack Conrad argues that the pre-1917 Bolshevik model of organisation should be properly studied and properly understood
Socialist Party/CWI: Rudeness and revolution
04 Jul 2013
The Committee for a Workers International should not insist on micro-managing debates, argues Paul Demarty
LRC: Left in the dark
04 Jul 2013
There are rumours flying around about goings-on at the top of the Labour Representation Committee, the left-Labour umbrella group. Harley Filben peers into an atmosphere of secrecy...
AWL school: Missing the point
27 Jun 2013
Paul Demarty shares some brief thoughts on a session dedicated to debating the IS/SWP and its history
AWL school: Economism and frontist delusions
27 Jun 2013
Mike Macnair was at the Ideas for Freedom school to listen, to learn and to debate
People's Assembly: John Rees and the fragile politics of broadness
27 Jun 2013
Peter Manson reports on the launch of John Reess united front against austerity
People's Assembly: A rough guide
20 Jun 2013
Who is behind the launch of the Peoples Assembly? What are the aims and methods? Peter Manson looks at the personalities, politics and possibilities
Opportunities to grasp
13 Jun 2013
As the CPGB begins its annual Summer Offensive, national organiser Mark Fischer examines the state of the party and the wider left
SWP crisis: Offering token concessions
13 Jun 2013
As the crisis rumbles on, the SWP leadership admits it has gone through an extremely bruising period. Peter Manson reports on the central committees perspectives
Lessons of May 68
06 Jun 2013
Would there have been a revolution but for the betrayal of the official leadership in France? This is an edited version of a talk given by Mike Macnair at a recent London Communist Forum
SWP: In decay and in denial
30 May 2013
Peter Manson contrasts the speakers lists for Marxism 2013 and Counterfire
Anti-sectarianism, Polish style
23 May 2013
Maciej Zurowski interviews comrades from a Polish Marxist tendency, and finds parallels with left thinking in the UK