Party & Programme > Class and consciousness
Wide open for the class
19 Apr 2012
What is class-consciousness? Paul B Smith discusses the possibility of a political revival
Has history refuted dialectics?
13 Sep 2007
Rosa Lichtenstein explains why she rejects dialectical materialism - the 'mystical theory Engels smuggled into Marxism'
Frederick Engels and nature's dialectic
30 Aug 2007
Sadly Marxism must be defended against some who claim to be Marxists, or at least sympathetic to Marxism. Jack Conrad shows that this is especially the case when it comes to attacks on Frederick Engels and his work on the dialectic of nature
Dublin 1916 and the 'blood sacrifice'
05 Jul 2007
Philip Ferguson gives his view on some common criticisms of James Connolly
Well-meaning but inchoate
14 Jun 2007
As well as the platitudes and compromises from bourgeois politicians, the G8 featured protests from thousands who want 'another world'. Carey Davies reports
Defeat was fault of enemy machine guns
25 May 2007
Mike Macnair replies to Dave Brown and Gerry Downing who argued last week that the defeats of the 20th century are not grounds to rethink the strategic ideas of the early Comintern
Not rabbit hutches, but houses fit for the revolutionary proletariat
11 May 2007
When Margaret Hodge recently placed the blame for housing scarcity on migrants, she deliberately ignored the glaringly obvious, social solution: that of providing more houses. Jim Gilbert remembers Red Vienna and its houses fit for the revolutionary proletariat
Speeches and class war
03 May 2007
Alan Stevens reports from this year's May Day march in London
Clinging to Trotskyist pieties
29 Mar 2007
There is no movement in Britain to set up a new 'mass workers' party', argues Mike Macnair. What can be achieved, however, is a united party of the Marxists
Farewell to veteran communist activist
08 Feb 2007
Gill Emerson and David Turner are amongst the friends and comrades who are mourning the veteran communist Reg Weston, who died on January 26 2007, aged 93, following a short illness
Don't revive absurd slogans
18 Jan 2007
Lenin's pre-April 1917 'democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry' was unworkable, writes Hillel Ticktin, editor of Critique
Chávez landslide
07 Dec 2006
After Chávez's victory in the presidential election, Venezuela is at the crossroads, writes Nick Rogers. The working class must assert its political independence
New left for old
12 Oct 2006
Mike Macnair reviews Max Elbaum's Revolution in the air: sixties radicals turn to Lenin, Mao and Che Verso, 2002, pp370, £20
Intriguing cameos
05 Oct 2006
Dave Douglas reviews: North West TUC members 70th anniversary of the Spanish civil war pp18, £1.50
Marxism and scientific revolutions
05 Oct 2006
How are scientific paradigms established? And what does this mean for the politics of the working class? Chris Knight examines the issues
The science of Marxism
28 Sep 2006
Is scientific objectivity compromised by a subordination to the interests of the international working class? Chris Knight examines the issues