• CWI crisis: Changing the world - A comrade from the Militant tradition reflects on the parting of the ways - February 8 2001
• ISM leaves CWI - The International Socialist Move ment - formerly Scottish Militant Labour - has finally completed its break with Peter Taaffe’s Committee for a Workers’ International - January 18 2001
• SSP leader calls for a split - The statement, 'Appeal for an amicable divorce', by leading Scottish Socialist Party member Catriona Grant provides yet another example of the centrifugal tensions operating mercilessly on Peter Taaffe's once monolithic Committee for a Workers' International - November 23 2000
• Expelled for speaking out - Harry Paterson, a long-standing member of the Socialist Party/Militant, has had his appeal against expulsion turned down. He spoke to Peter Manson of the Weekly Worker - November 16 2000
• Sectarian hypocrisy - Harry Paterson, who is in the process of being expelled from the Socialist Party, condemns the SP's counterposing of its 'new mass workers' party' to the reality of the Socialist Alliance - November 9 2000
• From poll tax glory to sectarian oblivion - Harry Paterson, who is currently appealing against his expulsion from the Socialist Party, looks at the reasons behind the SP's crisis - November 2 2000
• Socialist Party sabotage - In an astounding act of narrow sectarianism, the Socialist Party has succeeded in dissuading three independent leftwing councillors in Preston from declaring themselves as 'Socialist Alliance' - October 19 2000
• Breaking up the SA - Pat Strong of the Socialist Party condemns the SP leadership for standing Socialist Alternative candidates - September 21 2000
• Against Taaffe - A split between the Scottish Socialist Party and the Socialist Party in England and Wales has long been on the cards. But recently the Sheridan-McCombes-Curran SSP majority has gone on the offensive by highlighting the extremely backward, not to say back-stabbing, role of SPEW in the London Socialist Alliance - September 7 2000
• Turning the tables - This article is intended to provide Socialist Party comrades with an update on the state of play regarding my appeal against expulsion, writes Harry Paterson - July 6 2000
• Challenge to CWI - The crisis in Peter Taaffe's tattered Committee for a Workers International is set to take a lurch forward in early September with the formation of a rival international grouping. This will be based primarily on the expelled United States minority, but includes former and current CWIers from at least eight other countries - June 29 2000
• Latest SP turn deepens crisis - The latest Socialist Party somersault on the Greater London Authority elections in May will exacerbate rather than ease the group's problems - April 20 2000
• Double blow for Taaffe - It can now only be a question of time before more splits tear apart what remains of Peter Taaffe's Socialist Party - April 13 2000
• Open letter to Ian Page - An expelled member of the Socialist Party appeals for support - Thursday April 6 2000
• Page supports LSA PR slate - SP candidate opposes Taaffe-Mullins line - March 30 2000
• For democratic centralism - Socialist Party member Harry Paterson has raised the flag of pro-Party rebellion inside Taaffe's disintegrating organisation. We reprint his 10,000 document - March 23 2000
• Final divorce in Scotland - Socialist Party dissident Pat Strong comments on the imminent split in the CWI Scotland - March 23 2000
• Scottish Socialist Party conference: review and conclusions - We reprint the latest broadside fired by Phil Stott's Dundee faction against the majority CWI group in Scotland led by Alan McCombes, Tommy Sheridan, et al. A split appears imminent - March 23 2000
• Hostile and unhelpful - The London Socialist Alliance committee meeting on March 7 underlined the crisis of the Socialist Party - March 9 2000
• SP in tailspin - London revolt adds to Taaffe's problems - March 2 2000
• Why walk away?- Socialist Party dissident speaks out - February 3 2000
• CWI Scotland split looms - The lines of division in the Committee for a Workers International in Scotland are becoming clear - November 18 1999
• Right liquidationism - A new stage in the degeneration of the Socialist Party was marked by last weekend's Socialist Network conference attended by a layer of members and disillusioned former SP members - October 21 1999
• Liquidationist step - SP dissidents to attend Socialist Network conference - October 14 1999
• 'Waste of time' - The Socialist Party's Peter Taaffe rubbishes the lobby of the Labour Party conference - September 23 1999
• SPEW split on SWP - We reproduce recent correspondence between the Socialist Party and the Socialist Workers Party which provides insight into the current state of Taaffe's organisation - September 9 1999
• Taaffe loses Pakistan - The disintegration of Socialist Party, along with its Committee for a Workers International, continues to accelerate. We reproduce statements from the CWI's Special International Bulletin (October 1998): the first annoucing the suspension from the CWI of the Labour Party of Pakistan, the second an edited version of the LPP national committee's response - August 19 1999
• Spontaneity and the trap of Labourism - A member of the expelled minority of the CWI USA section slams the leadership of Peter Taaffe and Lynn Walsh - July 22 1999
• More resignations - Pat Strong of the Socialist Party calls on his comrades to fight for revolutionary programme - July 15 1999
• Time to change course - A member of the Socialist Party in England and Wales openly questions the Taaffe leadership - July 8 1999
• Capitulation to nationalism - This Members Bulletin document, 'In defence of the revolutionary party', is the Socialist Party EC's reply to Scottish Militant Labour's proposals to liquidate itself into a Scottish Socialist Party - June 11 1998
• SPEW set to splinter - Dissidents from a number of regions are about to walk out, reports Mark Fischer - May 27 1999
• SPEW's empty words - Taaffe's rump Socialist Party refuses to take sides in the Kosova war - May 20 1999
• Europe, the unions and crisis - The Merseyside Socialists, who recently left or were suspended from the Socialist Party in England and Wales, continue their critique of the leadership - March 25 1999
• Wrong global analysis - First part of a discussion document produced by the Merseyside Socialist - former members of Peter Taaffe's Socialist Party - March 18 1999
• Half decent - Mark Fischer attacks the Socialist Party's minimalist demands - January 21 1999
• Centrifugal liquidation - After Scotland and the resignation of national organiser Mike Waddington, Peter Manson looks at the Socialist Party's loss of Merseyside - January 7 1999
• Socialist Party in England and Wales: Extinction looms - The Socialist Party in England and Wales is in crisis - official. The statement issued by dissident Merseysiders - summarily ejected from the SP with no right of appeal - is a damning indictment of the regime of Peter Taaffe and his national committee majority - November 12 1998
• Taaffe culls opposition - The crisis of the Socialist Party in England and Wales has deepened dramatically with the news that the entire regional committee in Liverpool and their supporters have has been suspended for their refusal to sign a seven-point ‘loyalty’ pledge put to them by Peter Taaffe - November 5 1998
• Destroying themselves -Statement by expelled Merseyside Socialist Party comrades - October 1998
• SML prepares UDI - Scottish Militant Labour is on the verge of completing its unilateral declaration of independence from the Socialist Party in England and Wales - September 10 1998
• Militant Australia courts DSP - On May 26, Stephen Jolly, national secretary of Militant (Australia), wrote to the national executive of the Democratic Socialist Party. The short missive states: “We would like representatives of your party to meet three of our NC members to discuss the rights and responsibilities Militant members would have in a merged organisation.” - August 27 1998
• Workers' unity, not national socialism - Peter Taaffe and Scottish Militant Labour are on the verge of divorce. But this is no private affair. Shamefully in the name of defending Marxism both sides want to break up the historically constituted working class in Britain along nationalist lines - June 18 1998
• Too high a price to pay - Former Scottish Militant Labour member Tom Delargy gives his views on SML's break with the Socialist Party and its embrace of nationalism - June 4 1998
• Short thesis on the revolutionary party - Peter Taaffe, the Socialist Party's general secretary, having already surrendered to SML's nationalism, now contradictorily tries to prevent a Scottish breakaway by appealing to technical internationalism. His 'short thesis' appears in the SP's Members Bulletin April 1998 - May 14 1998
• Sad Taaffe - Peter Taaffe's 'short thesis' is sad really. The Socialist Party general secretary has already lost the theoretical fight to Scottish Militant Labour by agreeing to its formation in the first place - May 14 1998
• Fight nationalist poison - On May 8 the Socialist Party is organising a London aggregate to discuss the developing crisis in its relations with Scottish Militant Labour - May 7 1998
• Bombshell? - Either the Executive Committee of the Socialist Party is being deliberately disingenuous, or it is composed of the dimmest set of leaders on the British left - April 16 1998
• Fighting liquidationism with Taaffeism - The reply of the Socialist Party executive committee to Scottish Militant Labour - April 16 1998
• From British reformism to socialist nationalism - In this internal Scottish Militant Labour document Alan McCombes presents his nationalist proposals for a Scottish Socialist Party which would, if put into practice, make the break with the Socialist Party of Peter Taaffe complete - April 16 1998
• The sound of silence - The Communist Party school on the federal republic over the weekend of February 21-22 noted a sad affliction which seems to impede the work of comrade Peter Taaffe, leader of the Socialist Party. We sincerely hope he recovers - February 26 1998