With the full weight of the establishment and media behind them Keir Starmer and Labour’s right-wing are determined to extirpate socialist, anti-war and anti-imperialist ideas from the party, or, at the very least, neutralise them. This is the real strategy behind the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn …

Part Two – Building A Marxist International – Oppose Bureaucratism And Prestige Politics.  Examine the road over which the fault has passed. – Victor Hugo “A Matter Of Prestige ” and “Marxist Method and Orientation to Mass Organisations of the Working Class (Part One)”, published in …

For A Socialist Alternative: Building A Militant Left Opposition In Britain Corbyn’s defeat and new Labour leader, Keir Starmer’s clear intention to extirpate socialism from the party has demoralised many socialists. But fatalism and pessimism is misplaced. Momentous developments are unfolding in …

Part One – Prestige Politics: The Infantile Disorder “A Matter Of Prestige”, published August 2019, looked at aspects of the degeneration of the CWI and the SP into bureaucratic centralism, prestige politics and rule or ruin sectarian opportunism. Under the leadership of Peter Taaffe, …

A case study in bureaucratic centralism, prestige politics and rule or ruin sectarianism. The struggle within the Committee for a Workers International. The recent split in the forty-year-old Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) followed the declaration of a Faction by Peter Taaffe and his …