An important debate has started about the role of the ISM platform in the SSP, and whether a new and more open platform needs to be formed. In this article Nick McKerrell gives a personal view of the progress of the SSP and draws a balance sheet of the experience of the ISM platform and where it should go from here.
Internal Democracy and Public Debate in Revolutionary Parties
16 May 2005, byMurray Smith replies to Doug Lorimer of the Australian DSP on the issue of internal democracy and public debate in revolutionary parties . Contrary to Lorimer, Smith argues that debating party differences in public was the norm, and not the exception, in Lenin’s Bolshevik Party.
The Brazilian left at the crossroads
16 February 2005, byThe expectations fostered by the left that the Lula government would push for structural reforms or progressive changes in Brazilian society have been largely dashed.
Political Resolution of the DS Brazil
16 February 2005, byThis resolution brings together and develops the positions discussed by the tendency since the XII National Meeting of the PT. Its central concern is to understand the new political conditions opened up by Lula’s victory and the new conditions for party-building in this situation.
Letter to members of the PT from FI leaders
16 February 2005, by ,We present here the letter to members of PT which resulted from the discusions on the 6th December 2004 in SãoPaulo at the second seminar of the PT left organised by the tendencies Articulação de Esquerda and Democracia Socialista.
The European Radical Left Tested Electorally
9 December 2004, byAlex Callinicos, of the SWP, looks at how the radical left performed in the recent European elections and draws some lessons on how the left should organise.