I've been meaning to link to Attila Hoare on the British far left and Bosnia for ages, but haven't. But here it is in all its brill...

A University of Kent alumnus from the 1980s writes: The activities of the Revolutinary Communist Tendency were one of the weirdest aspect...

I hear via the grapevine that the historian Walter Kendall has died. As reviews editor of Tribune in the 1980s and early 1990s I commissione...

I’m late on this one, but what the hell. George Monbiot had an almost-fascinating column in the Guardian last week (for which click here ) o...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, December 12 2003 I'm not sure whether, in the current climate, this will get me fired as a Tribune col...

LOOK ELSEWHERE FOR ENLIGHTENMENT ON IRAQ Stephen Marks, review of Regime Change by Christopher Hitchens (Penguin, £5.99) and Bush in Babylo...

The Guardian carries a story today on the takeover of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament by a coalition of Trotskyists (Socialist Action)...

SHOOTING PEOPLE IS NOT SOCIALISM Ian Williams, Tribune column, October 31 2003 In the bad old days of Stalin, lots of starry-eyed lefti...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, November 15 2003 Last week’s public spat between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair was about more than Brown’s ...

I'm grateful to Harry's Place for alerting the world to critical thinking among the dissident Trotskyists of the Alliance for Worker...

I am sad to hear of the death of John Sullivan, whom I remember both as the author of two extraordinarily funny, accurate and inspirational ...

I missed the news that Quintin Hoare and Branka Magas had extracted a grovelling apology, small-scale damages and (apparently much larger) l...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, October 31 2003 One of the most depressing features of the past few months has been the way the traditiona...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, October 3 2003 Stephen Frears's dramatisation of the events that led to Gordon Brown not fighting Tony...

Stephen Marks writes: I never thought that the politics of the Socialist Workers' Party and the Communist Party of Britain deterred s...

I am grateful to Mike Marqusee for forwarding the following piece by two former members of the Socialist Workers’ Party in Birmingham. It ap...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, September 5 2003 I’m used to wishful thinking in Tribune , but last week's piece by the convenor and ...

Alister Black (for whom click here ) writes: It is not accurate to describe Rifondazione Comunista as the moving force of the European An...

Paul Anderson, review of Cold War, Crisis and Conflict: The CPGB 1951-68 by John Callaghan (Lawrence and Wishart, £14.99), Tribune August 2...

The appearance in the Guardian on Monday of a piece by the leader of Rindazione Comunista in Italy, Fausto Bertinotti (click here ) has pro...