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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
Sickening apologetics
12 Jul 2007
SWP member Naz Massoumi addressed the session entitled 'Iran - from revolution to rogue state', reports James Turley
Workerist class?
12 Jul 2007
Chris Harman gave the opening speech in a session entitled 'How important is class today?', reports Dave Isaacson
Stop thuggery in workers' movement
12 Jul 2007
This year's Marxism was marred by a disgraceful physical assault by SWP national organiser Martin Smith. Mark Fischer demands the setting up of a workers' commission to investigate
SWP and morality
12 Jul 2007
An ideal opportunity to challenge the SWP leadership over its attitude to Martin Smith's thuggery came at the Sunday afternoon session aptly entitled 'Marxism and morality'. Peter Manson reports
Starting to think
12 Jul 2007
Starting to think
Proposition number one and one-dimensional Marxism
05 Jul 2007
The SWP leadership has jumped on the 'stop climate change' bandwagon. But, argues Jack Conrad, if they want to be taken seriously the first thing for them to do is to reformulate their proposition one
More questions than answers
05 Jul 2007
The Alliance for Workers' Liberty minority must recognise the pro-imperialist logic of the majority's silence on the occupation of Iraq, argues Mark Fischer
Unity and opportunism
28 Jun 2007
The CPGB is not advocating building a Marxist party through a rotten deal with the current SWP and SPEW leaders, writes Peter Manson. Our call for unity is inseparable from the struggle for working class principle
Grubby Paul Hampton
28 Jun 2007
Mark Fischer replies to the Alliance for Workers' Liberty's Paul Hampton on the question of the withdrawal of troops from Iraq
Support Die Linke - but organise to fight
21 Jun 2007
As of June 16 the two dominant forces on the German left, the Linkspartei.PDS and the WASG, formally ceased to exist and joined forces to create the new left party, Die Linke. Ben Lewis reports from Germany
Who killed off the movement?
21 Jun 2007
Torab Saleth of Workers Left Unity Iran points the finger at the SWP for its pro-Tehran apologetics
Compromised 'opposition'
14 Jun 2007
Mark Fischer comments on the imperial economism of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty, which is most crassly expressed in the organisation's refusal to call for a withdrawal of troops from Iraq
'British road' dead end
07 Jun 2007
Lawrence Parker reports from the AGM of the People's Press Printing Society (the body that owns and produces the Morning Star) on June 4
Facing disintegration
07 Jun 2007
As South Africa's public sector strike continues to escalate, the crisis besetting the South African Communist Party can only deepen. Peter Manson looks at the SACP's contradictory role
SWP "relative autonomy"
25 May 2007
James Turley reviews Alex Callinico's Universities in a neoliberal world (Bookmarks, 2006, pp41, ?2)