Revolutionary theory, strategy and the far left

The ACR’s Ecosocialist Manifesto: a Trotskyist critique

A review of Ecosocialist Revolution: A Manifesto, Anti*Capitalist Resistance, July 2024.

Jeremy Dewar  ·  04 December 2024

Review | China: Rise, Repression, Resistance

A review of Adrian Budd's new book on China

Peter Main  ·  01 December 2024

France: the government offensive and the tasks of revolutionaries

Analysis of the political crisis in France and the positions of the French left

Marc Lasalle  ·  01 December 2024

For a regroupment of revolutionaries

A joint statement between the ISL, the ITO and the L5I on regroupment discussions

Workers Power  ·  21 November 2024

Ukraine and the Stop the War Coalition

Opposing the imperialist motives of western support for Ukraine doesn't mean subordinating the right of Ukraine to resist invasion and annexation by Russia

Workers Power  ·  06 November 2024

One year into the Israeli genocide in Gaza

A joint statement by the ISL, the ITO, and the L5I

Workers Power  ·  04 October 2024

Stop the war… with annexations

Stop the War’s perspective on the Ukraine war is a blend of the politics of the two major political tendencies which support it and make up the bulk of its members – Counterfire and the Communist Party of Britain (CPB).

George Banks  ·  02 October 2024

The challenge of the radical left in Argentina

An analysis of the political crisis in Argentina and the strategy of the far left

Martin Suchanek  ·  27 September 2024

The strategic crisis of the PFLP and the Palestinian left

A critique that locates the strategic impasse of the Palestinian left in its adherence to a Stalinist stages theory and the popular front.

Martin Suchanek  ·  29 July 2024

Book review: 1984, the Miners and the Strike that could have won

A review of 1984, the Miners and the Strike that could have won by Ian Taylor, Socialist Worker.

Dave Stockton  ·  15 July 2024

The Left and the general election

Only by gathering the forces of working class opposition to Labour and directing them in a united front against the government can we begin to build a party that can not only resist the coming attacks on our class, but destroy capitalism and the imperialist system that stand behind Starmer and Reeves.

Jeremy Dewar  ·  09 July 2024

Workers Summit: The SWP, the rank & file and the revolutionary party

Under pressure from rank and file activity most of the revolutionary socialist groups turned left, workers power argues now is the time to unite all who want to develop a rank and file strategy.

Jeremy Dewar  ·  14 September 2023

The problem with ‘Just Stop Oil’

4 July 2023 was the hottest day since records began, since then wildfires and extreme heat has scorched several countries around the world.

Alex Rutherford  ·  27 July 2023

A year of war in Ukraine

Resolution adopted by the XIIth Congress of the League for the Fifth International.

Workers Power  ·  01 July 2023

What are workers’ councils?

The significance of the soviet form of organisation and what its legacy means for working class militants today.

Dave Stockton  ·  13 September 2022

Nothing new on offer in Momentum leadership elections

By Urte March VOTING IS open until 6 July in the Momentum leadership elections, with two slates—Your Momentum and Momentum Organisers—competing in a lifeless re-run of the 2020 contest. Your Momentum is a rebrand of the incumbent Forward Momentum grouping orienting itself towards social movements and community campaigns, while Momentum Organisers emphasises the need to […]

Urte March  ·  02 July 2022

What is an action programme?

Trotskyism in the 21st century.

Peter Main  ·  04 May 2022

The Young Communist League and the rehabilitation of Joseph Stalin

Amid growing tensions between the CPB and the YCL, Tim Nailsea explains the nature of Stalinist politics.

Tim Nailsea  ·  20 November 2021

AWL blames Stalinism for Corbyn defeat

Urte March reviews Corbynism: What Went Wrong by Martin Thomas (AWL)

Urte March  ·  02 November 2021

What’s behind the split in the NPA?

The Revolutionary Communist Current claims it has been expelled from the New Anticapitalist Party in France. What's really going on?

Martin Suchanek  ·  21 June 2021

Red Flag & AWL debate Israel-Palestine: one state or two?

Red Flag's opening statement.

Marcel Rajecky  ·  03 June 2021

The Communist Party of Britain’s reformist road to socialism

Tim Nailsea reviews the 2020 edition of Britain's Road to Socialism

Tim Nailsea  ·  30 November 2020

Friedrich Engels at 200

By Gerald Falke and Dave Stockton The 200th anniversary Friedrich Engels’ birth, gives us an opportunity to look back over his remarkable life and recall the importance of his contribution to what became known as Marxism and to the formation of the political parties of the working class. In many assessments, he appears merely as […]

Workers Power  ·  28 November 2020

The 80th anniversary of the death of Leon Trotsky

By Dave Stockton It is 80 years today since Leon Trotsky, aged 60, died at 7.25 pm in a hospital in Mexico City from a wound inflicted the day before by Ramón Mercader, an agent of Joseph Stalin, then the all-powerful dictator of the Soviet Union. Stalin had directly ordered the murder having already murdered […]

Workers Power  ·  21 August 2020

Imperialism, capitalism and the destruction of humanity and nature

A Marxist analysis of the fundamental contradictions between sustainability and the capitalist mode of production.

Workers Power  ·  07 April 2020

A programme of action to fight the corona crisis

A programme of action published in the early weeks of the pandemic.

Workers Power  ·  24 March 2020

The AWL and ‘regroupment’: programme first

IN THE face of the Tories’ overwhelming parliamentary majority, it is to be hoped that Hegel’s dictum, “victory divides the victors” will quickly be confirmed. At present, however, it is the divisions on the Left that are more obvious. Perhaps in anticipation of this, the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty, AWL, presented a call for “Left […]

Workers Power  ·  12 January 2020

‘Antisemitic’ Labour: a Jewish socialist writes

Jewish people face casual discrimination on a day-to-day basis within capitalist society. This continues a long-standing historical trend; we were forced to become money-lenders in Europe during the Middle Ages, leading to harmful stereotypes which persist to this day, such as that the Jews are a duplicitous people who are only interested in money and […]

Dave Brody  ·  10 December 2019

CLR James: From Trotskyism to Pan-Africanism

Over 80 years ago, CLR James’ remarkable work, The Black Jacobins was published in London. Its author openly intended his book to “stimulate the coming emancipation of Africa”. And indeed it did, playing a part in developing a movement of young black intellectuals in London, who were paralleled by similar figures in Paris and New […]

Dave Stockton  ·  14 October 2019

The Oppression of Trans People

Resolution on the oppression of trans people.

Workers Power  ·  17 March 2019

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