Party & Programme > Bolshevism
Fur flies over Lenin
22 Mar 2012
What has the debate over 1912 got to do with current communist practice? James Turley answers the philistines
Convergence and questions
10 May 2012
What did Lenin expect to arise from the 1912 Prague conference? Paul Le Blanc responds to Lars T Lih on Bolshevism and party-building
A faction is not a party
03 May 2012
Did the Bolsheviks seek to create a 'party of a new type' in 1912? Lars T Lih looks at the historical record
1912 and 2012
05 Apr 2012
Paul Le Blanc argues that the Bolsheviks constituted themselves as a separate party at the Prague conference and advocates a 'united front' for today's disunited Marxist left
Both Pham Binh and Paul Le Blanc are wrong
05 Apr 2012
The left has never properly grasped the history and significance of Bolshevism, argues Mike Macnair
Breaking with the cold war consensus
05 Apr 2012
Has today's anti-Stalinist left sleepwalked into a Stalinoid conception of 'Bolshevism'? This is an edited and expanded version of the speech delivered by the CPGB's Ben Lewis to the March 31-April 1 Platypus convention in Chicago
Wanting to get Lenin wrong
29 Mar 2012
Pham Binh challenges those who insist on maintaining their fictional image of Lenin and the Bolsheviks - despite the overwhelming evidence
Fur flies over Lenin
22 Mar 2012
What has the debate over 1912 got to do with current communist practice? James Turley answers the philistines
SUPPLEMENT: Falling out over a Cliff
16 Feb 2012
Was Lenin a lying manoeuvrer? Were the Bolsheviks a cult led by an all-knowing leader and staffed by narrow-minded minions? Lars T Lih joins in the debate over Tony Cliff's biography and debunks some myths held by both left and right
Mangling the party of Lenin
02 Feb 2012
Opportunist twists and turns and the perversion of democratic centralism have characterised the Socialist Workers Party and the groups it has influenced, including the US International Socialist Organization. But where did these practices originate? Former ISO member Pham Binh examines the method employed by SWP founder Tony Cliff
Lenin, Kautsky and the 'new era of revolutions'
22 Dec 2011
Lenin's vision of world revolution at the turn of the 20th century was inspired by Karl Kautsky, writes Canada-based scholar Lars T Lih
SUPPLEMENT: Classical Marxism and the general strike
24 Nov 2011
A victorious debate
08 Sep 2011
The 1920 Halle congress of the Independent Social Democrats of Germany (USPD) was a turning point for our movement. It was also a moment of triumph for Grigory Zinoviev. This is an excerpt from Ben Lewis's introduction to a new book, 'Zinoviev and Martov: head to head in Halle'
Zinoviev and the Halle Congress
25 Nov 2010
Zinoviev's largely forgotten speech and Martov's counterblast for the first time in English, plus introductory essays by Ben Lewis and Lars T Lih
The ironic triumph of 'old Bolshevism'
25 Nov 2010
Using new archival research, Canadian scholar Lars T Lih spoke to a London Communist Forum meeting about the 'April debates' and their impact on Bolshevik strategy through to October 1917
In defence of left communism
04 Nov 2010
James Tansey takes issue with Jack Conrad