In the last year or two a major debate has been taking place over Lenin’s model of the revolutionary party….

The vote was close on Tuesday 30 April as a €23 billion bailout deal scraped through the Cypriot House of…

By Joy Macready More than three days after an eight-story building housing five textile factories collapsed in the Savar industrial…

JERRY HICKS HAS delivered a sensational blow to Len McCluskey, scoring a massive 36 per cent of the vote in…

The crisis in the Socialist Workers Party has implications for the entire left. Allegations of rape against a leading member…

Post Office workers have taken strike action twice, on Easter Saturday and again on 19 April.  They’re angry at plans…

Over 1000 people marched through the streets of Leeds on 20 April in protest against the Bedroom Tax. With chants…

23 people came to the launch meeting of Left Unity in Leeds this Wednesday. Everyone contributed and collectively we came…

The response to Ken Loach’s Appeal “to discuss the formation of a new political party of the Left to bring…

A dispute which has been running in a desultory stop-go fashion for years has come to a head in one…

The League for the Fifth International recently held its Ninth Congress in Colombo, Sri Lanka. At its conclusion, the Congress…

By Marcus Halaby Causes that you are on record as supporting sometimes have a habit of following you around. And…

  By Dave Stockton ANY EXPRESSION of sorrow for the death of Margaret Thatcher or praise for her qualities or…

  The Western media is pumping out one simple message about the crisis on the Korean peninsular. Kim Jong-un, a…

This is the text of the leaflet distributed by members of the League for a Fifth International to the World…

Get involved in building a united, campaigning, democratic and socialist party A surge of support for a new left party…

  Here we set out what we think grassroots militants and socialists in Unite should be uniting around to fight…

The Tory government’s new Budget, due on 20 March, will be the focus of a TUC evening rally against austerity,…

David Cameron once dismissed the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) as “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists”. But in the Eastleigh…

In early February, Tunisia was shaken by the brutal assassination of Chokri Belaïd, general secretary of the Party of United…

By Joy Macready “Can’t move, won’t move!” Drawing on the historic chant against the Poll Tax, this is the rallying…

The Coalition of Resistance has called a People’s Assembly in June. Already it looks as if it will be big….

A recent US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) report shows CO2 emissions rising for the second highest time on…

  The SWP’s hastily convened “special conference” had one purpose – to crush internal opposition. The CC’s calling one with…

In celebration of International Women’s Day and as part of an ongoing debate about the principles of women’s organisation and…

DAVID CAMERON could yet meet his poll tax moment. His latest outrage, the bedroom tax, is igniting massive discontent. The…

The Italian general election did not give a majority to any party or coalition – but it did produce a…

Dave Stockton Stock markets fell and EU leaders reacted in horror as the result came in from Italy’s general election…

The New Anticapitalist Party (founded in 2009) at first seemed a beacon of hope to the left, not just in…