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Economic and technology revolution lays basis for communism, argues Dave Craig

Not a country, but a battle cry

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group argues that the British-Irish must accede to the wishes of the majority

Self-determination and Ireland

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group argues against self-determination for the British-Irish

Continue to victory

Dave Craig explains his theory of the ‘dual power republic’

Trotsky versus the left Trotskyists

The RDG and the CPGB have joined forces in defence of revolutionary democracy, argues Dave Craig

Defence of international socialist revolution

Distortion of democracy

Dave Craig responds to Tom Delargy’s criticisms (Weekly Worker April 15)

Unionists, democrats and nationalists

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group restates the case for a federal republic

Strained relations

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group takes issue with some recent reporting in the Weekly Worker

Republicans debate way forward

Tendency debates Bull

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group argues that SLP members should demand action against Socialist Labour’s vice-president

Fiddling with the constitution

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group lambastes the United Socialists’ economism

End of the road?

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group examines the state of the SLP

Universal strategy

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group poses the politics of revolutionary democracy in opposition to economism

On the fantasy world of Dave Craig

Open letter not published

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group looks into the different positions within the Scottish Socialist Alliance

Trotskyite economism or revolutionary democracy?

Jack Conrad (CPGB) and Dave Craig (RDG, faction of the SWP) reply to Ian Donovan, editor of Revolution and Truth

Revolutionary democrats and a right of reply

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) takes issue with the CPGB’s national organiser

Liberal democracy - as far as it goes!

Dave Craig comments on the rapprochement process

For a republican boycott

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) prepares for the Irish peace referendum

Communist rapprochement: Breaking new ground

Dave Craig examines the formation of the Revolutionary Democratic Communist Tendency

Building the fourth tendency: One banner, many flags

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) calls for communist rapprochement

From witch hunt to block vote

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) believes that the SLP left has no cause for despair

Socialist Labour conference: Factions square up

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) weighs up the balance of forces in the SLP

Dave Craig defends the joint ‘Thesis on rapprochement’, agreed by the CPGB (PCC) and the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) against the attack by Open polemic (see 'Rapprochement: against')

Tommy gets his wish

Pre-republican epoch

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) considers what we can learn from the crisis of the social monarchy

Raise the republican flag

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) reviews Jack Conrad’s pamphlet, Blair’s rigged referendum and Scotland’s right to self-determination

The campaign for a genuine ballot?

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) continues the debate on the national question

Rapprochement: where now?

Has the process ground to a halt? Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) gives his views

Drop the dead donkey

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group discusses why he is against a “Duma with full powers”

Boycotting the republic?

After a debate at the CPGB’s London seminar last Saturday, Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) responds to criticisms

Nothing less than a federal republic

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) replies to the CPGB call for a Scottish parliament with full powers

For workers’ rights and workers’ control! For a democratic Europe, federal republic and united Ireland!

Dave Craig of the RDG (faction of the SWP) outlines its programmatic approach

Republicanism or the right to secede?

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) argues that a boycott campaign must unite republicans

Sovereign Scottish assembly or federal republic?

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) comments on the welcome shift in the policy of Workers Power

Minimum, Transitional and Maximum: The revolutionary programme for today

Dave Craig of the RDG opened a CPGB ‘Programme’ seminar arguing for a new transitional politics

For a republican government of the left

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) replies to John Stone (Weekly Worker October 3) on the theory of democratic revolution

Crisis in the ISG - liquidation or rapprochement?

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) poses the alternatives facing the International Socialist Group

Organise the communists

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) continues the debate on the slogan ‘Communist-Labour party’

Communists in the SLP - donkeys or partners?

Dave Craig of the RDG replies to Martin Blum on the call for a Communist-Labour party

Alternative theory of permanent revolution

Dave Craig of the RDG continues the debate on programme and the transitional method (see Weekly Worker July 25)

For communist unity

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) writes on progress towards communist rapprochement

For a Communist-Labour Party

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) debates the way forward for the SLP

The end of representative entry?

The common theoretical programme

Dave Craig of the RDG replies to Open Polemic

Socialist Labour’s founding conference: A republican party is born

Dave Craig of the RDG reports on the struggle between the republicans and the Fourth Internationalists

Scargillism or republicanism

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) writes on the choices facing the Socialist Labour Party

Revolutionary democratic road: Russians versus Greeks

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) continues the debate with Paul Cockshott on revolution and republicanism

Anarcho-communist trajectory

Dave Craig of the RDG replies to the RWT’s supplement, ‘The struggle for communism - yesterday, today and tomorrow’ (Weekly Worker October 12 1995)

Revolutionary republicanism

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) challenges Paul Cockshott's understanding of the democratic revolution

For a communist third force

Dave Craig from the RDG on the way forward for communist unity

Against conservatism

The revolutionary democratic road to socialism - part II

Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP)

The revolutionary democratic road to socialism - part I

At the CPGB school this year Dave Craig outlined the Revolutionary Democratic Group’s theory of permanent revolution. Here he opens the debate, to be continued in the next issue

Left wing activity or communist work?

When the entire Gravesend branch resigned from the Socialist Workers Party, we printed an edited version of their resignation letter (Weekly Worker 111). Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group discusses recent documents by two former members

Stalinist by name

An SWP member from East Midlands puts some questions to the RDG on its joint open letter with the CPGB to the SWP

Hey, hey, Tony Blair ...

Fighting the SWP central committee or reforming the SWP?

Scottish and Welsh parliaments?

Dave Craig from the RDG locates the points of agreement and difference in the debate on the national question

Can the SWP be reformed?

Dave Craig of the RDG questions RWT tactics

Leading the fight for self-determination

Continuing the debate on the national question

Leading the fight for democracy

For a federal republic of England, Scotland and Wales and a united Ireland. Dave Craig from the RDG replies to Peter Manson on the national question

Breaking barriers

As part of the CPGB’s process of rapprochement and discussions with other organisations, we have been talking with the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP). In this issue we present a joint open letter to the Socialist Workers Party, an historic move toward unity of two different traditions. Lee-Anne Bates spoke to Dave Craig, editor of the RDG’s bulletin, Workers Republic