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
No surrender on article 18
12 Jan 2012
Toby Abse reports on the intransigent defence of Italy's Workers' Statute coming from an unexpected source
Preparing for the second wave
12 Jan 2012
December saw huge protests in Moscow and St Petersburg against the rigging of the elections to the duma. Mark Fischer asked Russian socialist Boris Kagarlitsky about their significance
Signs of an awakening
22 Dec 2011
Calls for internal democracy within the Socialist Workers Party can only be welcomed. Peter Manson reports on the third and final 'Pre-conference Bulletin'
Too early to say
15 Dec 2011
Mike Macnair reviews Ian Birchall's 'Tony Cliff: a Marxist for his time' Bookmarks, 2011, pp664,
In the footsteps of Kropotkin
15 Dec 2011
How did self-declared anarchists come to support the Nato bombing of Libya? David Douglass reports
The disappearing slogan
08 Dec 2011
Whatever happened to 'All out, stay out'? Peter Manson investigates
Keynesian fantasies are no substitute
08 Dec 2011
The Fine Gael/Labour coalition has unveiled the country's fifth austerity budget. Despite that the leading factions of the ULA continue to dither, writes Anne Mc Shane
ULA must take itself seriously
01 Dec 2011
Anne McShane argues that the United Left Alliance must take a lead
Left rhetoric and reformist illusions
01 Dec 2011
The 1891 Erfurt programme adopted by the Social Democratic Party of Germany was regarded as a 'return to Marxism', writes Ben Lewis. If only the same could be said of Die Linke's 2011 version
Zig-zagging social imperialists
01 Dec 2011
What determines the Alliance for Workers' Liberty line is its support for 'democratic imperialism', writes socialist blogger Arthur Bough
Anatomy of an embarrassment
24 Nov 2011
The appearance of 'The protocols of the elders of Zion' on a Morning Star bookstall has provoked a storm of criticisms. Harley Filben wonders what all the fuss is about
Appearances are everything
24 Nov 2011
Peter Manson reports on the SWP's obsession with numbers regarding its latest recruiting front
Keeping it small
03 Nov 2011
Tina Becker argues that we urgently need to start the process of building a real political alternative
Lenin and the United States of Europe
03 Nov 2011
Jack Conrad takes issue with the attempt to recruit Lenin to the CPB nationalist camp
No alternative posed
03 Nov 2011
Anne Mc Shane sees the economy and the failing capitalist system as the central question in Ireland