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Active parties then articles in order of category. Citations as below where possible.

Labour

• Labouring in Vain- a critical history of the Labour Party, Subversion, Anarchist Federation-North (Manchester)
• Hard Labour, Anarchist Federation, Organise! 40, Autumn 1995
• Buick, Adam, Why we don’t need another Labour party, Socialist Standard, August 2009
• Gott, Daniel, Should socialists argue for a vote for Labour?: Against: "a waste of time", Socialist Review, February 2010
• Stack, Pat, Labour: Things didn't get better, Socialist Review, June 2010
• Broder, David, voting labour is not a fall-back option, The Commune, November 19 2009
• Grant, Jim, Why the British left sucks in 2006: Episode VIII - The Labour Party Part 1, Brit Left Series, Tragic Life Stories, Communist Students, September 4 2006
• Bairstow, Anthony et al., A vote for Labour means health and education privatisation, Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! May 2010
• The Labour Party, 100 years of infamy, Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! March 2000

Socialist Workers Party

• Where the SWP is coming from, Socialist Party of Great Britain Education document, 1995
• The SWP and Trotskyism: Would Trotsky have joined the SWP?, Workers Power, March 5 1993
• Lloyd, Colin and Hoskinsson, Mark, SWP: A turn to the right?, Workers Power, April 4 2001
• How to deal with the SWP, LibCom.org
• How socialist is the Socialist Workers Party, Wildcat, Libcom.org, 1985
• Post: How the SWP backs job cuts, Workers' Liberty, July 17 2004
• Grant, Jim, Why The British Left Sucks in 2006: Episode I - The Not So Phantom Menace, Brit Left Series, Tragic Life Stories, Communist Students, January 21 2006
• AWL versus SWP, Workers' Liberty, November 2005
  • Where the SWP came from, Workers' Liberty, A Tragedy of the Left, 1991
  • Matgamna, Sean, SWP / IS: History and myth, Workers' Liberty, November 11 2005
• Palmer, John, The SWP: a relapse into the worst of Trotskyism, Workers' Liberty, June 13 2010
• SWP tells us to vote for imperialism, war, racism and repression, Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! February 18 2010
• The politics of the SWP - a Trotskyist critique, League for the Fifth International, Workers Power, September 9 2008
• Thomas, Mark, Mark Thomas has had enough of the SWP, New Statesman, May 19 2003
• The SWP, imperialism and the Marxist Tradition pt 2, Permanent Revolution, November 30 2006
• The SWP’s Economics (PR5), Permanent Revolution, October 8 2007

Islam

• SWP: wrong positions on Iran and Iraq, Workers Power, February 6 1988
• Bates, Gerry, Has the SWP discovered a "Jew-Free" holocaust, Workers' Liberty, August 18 2008
• Bradley, Clive, The Iran-Iraq War, Workers' Liberty, July 2 2000
• SWP vote down womens' rights, Weekly Worker 527, May 6 2004
• Solidarity and SWP's favourite anti-semite, Weekly Worker 664, March 15 2007
• Ford, Eddie, Socialists tail Islamic reaction, Weekly Worker 407, November 8 2001
• Ford, Eddie, SWP backs the mullahs - official, Weekly Worker 668, April 12 2007
• McShane, Anne, Unity with al Sadr, Weekly Worker 694, October 25 2007
• Thomas, Martin, SWP and Islamic clerical fascism: poisoning the new anti-capitalists, Workers' Liberty, June 20 2007
• Mohammad, Sadi, The SWP and political Islam: lending support to anti-worker movement, Workers' Liberty, February 8 2003
• Ismail, Sacha, Islamofascism and the SWP, Workers' Liberty, September 10 2006
• No alliance with fundamentalism!, Workers' Liberty, October 11 2002

Ireland

• The SWP and British Troops in Ireland, Workers' Liberty
• Dollard, Paddy, Ireland and Slogans, Workers' Liberty, January 1987

Substitutionism

• Manson, Peter, SWP stunt backfires, Weekly Worker 819, May 27 2010
• Unterrainer, Tom, SWP slogans: "General Strike" or general nonsense?, Workers' Liberty, December 16, 2010
• Thomas, Martin, The SWP and the "IS tradition", Workers' Liberty, June 9 2005
• Sullivan, John, As Soon as this Pub Closes: Socialist Workers Party, What Next Journal, 1988

Democracy

• Higgins, Jim, More Years for the Locust, 1997
• Manson, Peter, Bureacratic Centralism Lives, Weekly Worker 774, June 18 2009
• Matgamna, Sean, The paradoxes of Tony Cliff: 1917 to 2000 a Critical Memoir, Workers' Liberty 64, September 5 2000
• Anyone for the Vanguard?, Socialist Standard, 1993
• Another leader called Tony, Socialist Standard, 2000
• Turley, James, Extended rally gives leadership free rein, Weekly Worker 848, January 13 2011
• SWP and party democracy, Workers Power, November 5 2008
• Doncaster SWP: Why we resigned, A Very Public Sociologist, July 11 2010
• Norwich SWP resignations, A Very Public Sociologist, October 14 2010
• Turley, James, The fight gets ugly, Weekly Worker 794, November 19 2009
• Unterrainer, Tom, Why I left the SWP, Workers' Liberty, December 11 2007
• Karras, Eric, Expelled by the SWP inquisition, Weekly Worker 391, July 5 2001
• Manson, Peter, SWP and morality, Weekly Worker 681, July 12 2007
• AMM, Democracy and the SWP, Unkant, December 29 2012
• Jim Jepps, SWP Crisis: Who is saying what

Women's rights

• Radical Anthropology Group, SWP 'expulsions' for discussing rape - not for the first time!, 1991
• Laurie Penny, What does SWP's way of dealing with sexual assault tell us, New Statesman
• Peter Manson, Countless zig zags over womens oppression, Weekly Worker 945

2013 Crisis

• Gerald Downing, Socialist Fight, Socialist Fight
• Laurie Penny, What does SWP's way of dealing with sexual assault tell us, New Statesman
• Jim Jepps, SWP Crisis: Who is saying what
• Urban75 Forums, SWP Expulsions and Squabbles
• Soviet Goon Boy, the Age Gap and why it matters
• Socialism Or Your Money Back, SPGB on the SWP, SPGB, February 19 2013
• Cath Elliot via Jim Denham UNISON’s National Women’s Conference: the “Rape Denial” debate and the SWP, Shiraz Socialist, February 23, 2013
• Brazilian Morenoites, IWL
• WSWS.org, British SWP descend into factional warfare, February 11 2013
• IBT
• Socialist Action
  • Tendence Coatesy
• ISO, The crisis in the SWP-Britain, January 30, 2013
• Counterfire

The Internet

• International Socialist Tendency

Counterfire

• Workers Power

Respect

• Buick, Adam, Lack of respect, Socialist Standard, December 2007
• Rees, John, The Future

Socialist Party of England & Wales

• Death of a Tendency, Socialist Standard, September 2006
• Moody, Jim, As you mean to go on, Weekly Worker 772, June 04 2009
• Why I resigned from the Socialist Party, A Very Public Sociologist, February 16 2010
• Turley, James, The two souls of socialism, Weekly Worker 841, November 11 2010
• Sullivan, John, As Soon as this Pub Closes: Militant, What Next Journal, 1988
• Tourish, Dennis, Ideological Intransigence, Democratic Centralism and Cultism: A Case Study, What Next? number 27, 2003., [1], reply

Communist Party of Britain

• Haunted by ghosts, Weekly Worker 847, January 06 2011
• Lynch, Dave, Ending of CPB truce, Weekly Worker 788, October 8 2009
• Bellamy, Ron, Official communist opposition, Weekly Worker 355, October 12 2000
• Moody, Jim, As you mean to go on, Weekly Worker 772, June 04 2009
• Why The British Left Sucks In 2006: episode II - Attack of the Bores, Brit Left Series, Tragic Life Stories, Communist Students, January 22 2006
• Sullivan, John, As Soon as this Pub Closes: Communist Party(s), What Next Journal, 1988

Alliance for Workers' Liberty

• Anarchist, How to argue badly, Nothing is Ever Lost, March 3 2011
• Manson, Peter, AWL and free discussion, Weekly Worker 746, November 20 2008
• Fischer, Mark, Gagged yet again, Weekly Worker 714, March 27 2008
• Turley, James, ENS must break with AWL's social-imperialism, Weekly Worker 719, May 01 2008
• Watson, Phil, AWL contradictions, Weekly Worker 373, March 01 2001
• Crisp, Ken, Labourism a stinking corpse - Labourism is not the answer, Weekly Worker 719, May 01 2008
• Grant, Jim, Why the British Left Sucks: Appendix: Alliance for Workers' Liberty, Brit Left Series, Tragic Life Stories, Communist Students, May 23 2008
• Red star legacy, Red Party, May 31 2007
• Sullivan, John, As Soon as this Pub Closes: Socialist Organiser, What Next Journal, 1988
• Broder, David, The AWL, Israel and Iran, Shiraz Socialist, August 23 2008
• Bough, Arthur, Syphilitic, Weekly Workers 734 Letters, August 28 2008 Denham, Jim, Response
• Machover, Moshe, Abominable War-mongering Left, Weekly Worker 734, August 28, 2008
• Fischer, Mark, Making themselves look ridiculous, Weekly Worker 734, August 28 2008
• Greenstein, Tony, AWL, Imperialism and Lies, What Next Journal, 2005?
• Boffy's Blog, AWL dig deeper hole, Boffy's Blog, November 3 2011
• Boffy's Blog, AWL apologism sinks to new low on Libya, Boffy's Blog, October 31 2011

Socialist Labour Party

• Harvey, Simon, SLP split, Weekly Worker 407, November 8 2001

Workers Revolutionary Party

• Harding, Norman, Staying Red, Index Books, January 2005
• Gerry Healy and the failure of the old British Trotskyist movement
• Hallas, Duncan, Cult comes a cropper, Socialist Review, No.82, December 1985, p.25.
• How the WRP Betrayed Trotskyism
• The Heritage We Defend

Communist Party of Great Britain (PCC)

• Pearson, John, CPGB Exposed
• Neira, Manny, Ideas: Weekly Worker: A modest proposal
• Hampton, Paul, Third Period Tankie upset

Socialist Equality Party

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