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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
Reports from Marxism meetings
13 Jul 2006
Friend or foe?
Reports from Marxism meetings
13 Jul 2006
'Muslims and the left today'
Reports from Marxism meetings
13 Jul 2006
'The fight for gay liberation in the Middle East'
Reports from Marxism meetings
13 Jul 2006
'Alienation and contemporary capitalism'
Reports from Marxism meetings
13 Jul 2006
Facing two ways on a woman's right to choose
Opportunism and hype
13 Jul 2006
The Socialist Workers' Party's annual Marxism school marked another step along the popular front road. Peter Manson, Anne Mc Shane and Phil Kent report
Dump sect culture
13 Jul 2006
The largest left group in Australia, Democratic Socialist Perspective, has just suffered a split. In this Labor Tribune article Marcus Ström calls for open debate and disciplined unity, not conspiratorial intrigue
Labor Tribune launched
13 Jul 2006
Marcus Ström is the editor of Labor Tribune, a recently established website of Marxist discussion and intervention in Australia. He was previously prominent on the revolutionary left in Britain as a CPGB member and a leader of the Socialist Alliance. He spoke to Mark Fischer
Expelled for thought crimes
06 Jul 2006
Simon Wells was a dissident in the Socialist Workers Party. Then he was informed by telephone by national organiser Martin Smith: 'You're out of the party'. Despite this treatment, he decided to appeal
Chaos in Tower Hamlets Respect
06 Jul 2006
George Galloway had to broker a peace deal with councillors after an anti-SWP coup amongst Respect councillors failed, writes Huw Bynon
The split in the League for the Fifth International (LFI)
06 Jul 2006
The Split in the League for the Fifth International
06 Jul 2006
An outline of the evidence that reveals how the International Minority Faction planned to split the League
06 Jul 2006
Workers Power split
06 Jul 2006
As many readers will be aware, Workers Power and its 'oil slick international', the League for the Fifth International, has just expelled one-third of its members. Mark Fischer draws up a balance sheet
Unity and the SSP
22 Jun 2006
Is working class unity helped by a separate Scottish Socialist Party and the strategy for an 'independent socialist Scotland'? The following exchange took place recently on the Socialist Alliance internet discussion list between Bob Goupillot - a member of the Republican Communist Network (Scotland), one of the SSP's smaller platforms - and Jack Conrad. Things kicked off when comrade Goupillot defended the SSP after a posting by Jim Gilbert