Alliances

• Vote for class independence April 28 2005
  Mike Macnair revisits the question of the popular front
• Stalinism versus Trotskyism April 21 2005
  Alan Davis of the International Bolshevik Tendency responds to Mike Macnair on the popular front
• Big questions and micro-splits April 14 2005
  Mike Macnair reports from the latest gatherings of the Socialist Alliance Democracy Platform - and argues for a Marxist party instead
• Another failed unity project April 14 2005
  The United Socialist Party, formed out of discussions between representatives of the sacked Merseyside dockers and the 47 ex-Labour councillors, has just split. In this article Iain Hunter, the USP organiser until his resignation last week, describes the formation of the party and events leading to his departure
• Communists and the popular front March 31 2005
  How should we respond to unprincipled alliances? Neither by prettifying popular front-type projects nor by sectarian abstention, argues Mike Macnair
• Popular fronts and why our principles matter March 17 2005
  Jack Conrad examines the nature of the Respect coalition, its shortfalls and why Communists should within inside it to establish class lines throughout its political programme
• Communists and alliances February 24 2005
  Mary Godwin reports on the February 19-20 CPGB weekend school