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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
Cross-class alliances endanger the struggle against Mugabe
22 Mar 2007
The past week has seen a stepping up of imperialist propaganda against the regime of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, especially in the US and UK. But what is the situation on the ground? Peter Manson spoke to Mike Sambo, national coordinator of the International Socialist Organisation Zimbabwe
Debate SWP won't have
22 Mar 2007
The March 20 'people's assembly', billed by the Stop the War Coalition as "the debate parliament won't have", was, of course, nothing of the sort. Phil Kent reports
Solidarity and SWP's favourite anti-semite
15 Mar 2007
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign wants to have it both ways over saxophonist Gilad Atzmon and the Deir Yassin Remembered group. Tony Greenstein (a founder member of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign and a member of Jews Against Zionism) reports on the annual general meeting
Opportunism in Irish conditions
15 Mar 2007
Socialist Workers Party (Ireland) held its Marxism 2007 event in Dublin over the weekend of March 10-11. The event reflects, as it does in Britain, the current political and organisational state of the SWP. Anne Mc Shane reports
Nationalist squabbles
08 Mar 2007
On Saturday March 3 both the Scottish Socialist Party and Solidarity held one-day policy conferences in Glasgow to finalise their respective manifestoes for the May 3 election to the Scottish parliament. Peter Manson comments
Fountains and fireworks
01 Mar 2007
Lawrence Parker reviews Raphael Samuel's The lost world of British communism (Verso, 2006, pp244)
Messenger or message?
01 Mar 2007
Peter Manson reports from the February 24 Stop the War Coalition demonstration in London
Heads in the sand
15 Feb 2007
Yassamine Mather reports on the Stop the War Coalition's Scottish conference - which missed the opportunity to seriously discuss the question of Iran
Mountains out of molehills
08 Feb 2007
Leading the Alliance for Workers Liberty's typically slippery response to our coverage of the Socialist Youth Network launch conference reveals an organisation in crisis and rapidly moving to the right, says James Turley
No to SWP Berufsverbot
18 Jan 2007
To defeat the BNP, we must fight the system - and not call for ballet dancers to lose their jobs, says Jim Moody
AWL 'realists' raise their heads above the parapet
11 Jan 2007
Divisions emerge within the AWL over troop withdrawal
SWP puritanism
11 Jan 2007
The Socialist Workers Party is fronting a Respect campaign to rid the East End of strip and lap-dancing clubs. Simon Wells reports
SWP accommodates to Scottish nationalism
07 Dec 2006
The Scottish Socialist Party and Solidarity are striving to become junior partners of the Scottish National Party, writes Jim Moody
No strategy for free education
07 Dec 2006
Dead ducks and Labour pains
30 Nov 2006
Entitled 'New Labour after Blair - can it be shifted left or is a new workers' party needed?' this meeting illustrated that the Socialist Party has a deeply problematic stance in relation to the Labour Party. Lawrence Parker reports