Jeremy Dewar on the dilemma facing the Socialist Workers Party The massive vote for Labour was a vote for real change. Revolutionaries know that Blair’s government is committed to less radical change than any Labour government this century. His programme is to provide the best possible conditions for capitalism to continue making profits at our […]

Originally published in Trotskyist International, no. 22, July-December 1997 Mark Abram reviews Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, by Jon Lee Anderson Bantam Press, London 1997, £25 The conditions for writing a biography of Ernesto “Che” Guevara have improved dramatically since 1989, though for reasons its subject would hardly have welcomed. The overthrow of the ruling […]

By Colin Lloyd “The last few years have been marked by an inverted millenarianism in which premonitions of the future, catastrophic or redemptive, have been replaced by the end of this or that (the end of ideology, art or social class, the ‘crisis’ of Leninism, social democracy or the welfare state etc. etc.); taken together, […]

Principles, strategy and tactics in the struggle for national liberation.

Racism – what it is and how to fight it! Published in 1995 by Workers Power, it examines the history of racial oppression and the use of racism as a weapon to divide the working class. Sorry this pamphlet is no longer in print Available to read online here Available to download here

“Free at last, free at last!” proclaims the front page of Panther under the headline “A declaration of independence”. The freedom and independence being celebrated are from Panther’s connections with Militant Labour. The split in Panther UK came, we are told, after “a year long protracted debate on the crucial issue of whether the group […]

Theses on the united front and how revolutionaries use the tactic to win support and leadership within workers' struggles

Is the national question Marxism's achilles heel?

By Emile Gallet GRAINY BLACK and white film of Parisian students hurling rocks at the police; crowds choking on clouds of tear-gas. The passing of time lends romance to the media view of May ’68; a student insurrection which came out of nowhere and was essentially libertarian in its politics. The romance is tinged with […]

Bill Jenkins reviews Robert Brenner, Merchants and Revolution: Commercial Change, Political Conflict and London's Overseas Traders 1550-1653

Theses on the method and principles of the organisation of pre-party communist groups

The example of Chartism proves there is a revolutionary tradition in the British working class writes Stuart King ‘The era of Chartism is immortal in that over the course of a decade it gives us in condensed and diagrammatic form the whole gamut of proletarian struggle – from petitions in parliament to armed insurrection. All […]

How should revolutionaries operate in elections and parliament?

An article on the 50th anniversary of Gramsci's death examines the enigma of his contribution to Marxism

Theses on reformism, reformist parties, the united front, and labor, affiliation, entry, and electoral tactics.

Dave Hughes concludes the series by looking at Lenin and Luxemburg’s fights for the revolutionary programme within the Second International In the last article we examined the struggle waged by Lenin and the Bolsheviks within the shattered framework of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party between 1903 and 1912. We showed that this was a struggle against opportunism […]

This article is devoted to the debate on the political and organisational heritage of Trotskyism and Leninism to which the Workers’ Socialist League, the International Marxist Group and the International-Communist League contributed in the 1970s What is being debated? The IMG have centred the debate around their own current ’unity offensive’. In the series of […]

A three-part series explaining the importance of programme in Marx, Engels and Lenin.