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
Sacrifice and redemption
14 Jul 2016
Chris Cutrone of the Platypus Affiliated Society recounts the struggle of Rosa Luxemburg for the workers’ party to base itself on the goal of socialism
What was social democracy?
07 Jul 2016
Chris Cutrone of the Platypus Affiliated Society traces the origins of current socialist terminology1
Curious delay and publication switch
16 Jun 2016
Rexx Dunn reviews: 'Victor Serge and Natalia Sedova Trotsky The life and death of Leon Trotsky', Haymarket Books, 2016, pp396, £12.99
Obscuring class politics
09 Jun 2016
Phil Duncan condemns socialists who supported the Bernie Sanders campaign and counterposes it to building a Marxist party
Too close for comfort
19 May 2016
The errors of the CPGB in relation to the 1924 minority Labour government were deeply rooted in the political physiognomy of the early Comintern, argues Lawrence Parker
Without monarchies or standing armies
12 May 2016
Jack Conrad explores Leon Trotsky’s strategic thinking
A perfectly ordinary, highly instructive document
17 Dec 2015
Lars T Lih introduces Zinoviev’s review of Kautsky’s 1909 book, Path to power
Only one path to socialism
17 Dec 2015
Translation of Grigorii Zinoviev’s review of Path to power
A missed opportunity
26 Nov 2015
Left unity continues to dodge the issue of its constitution, writes Paul Demarty
If Labour wins in 2020
08 Oct 2015
There are many lessons to be drawn from the experience of revolutionary Russia and contemporary Britain. Chris Knight looks back at what he wrote in 1969
Bureaucratic centralism and its apostates
16 Jul 2015
Jack Conrad argues that SWP claims about the pre-1917 Bolshevik organisation are bogus
Truth, not myths, serve our cause
02 Jul 2015
Why do comrades on the left insist on repeating evident falsehoods about Lenin and the Bolsheviks, not least when it comes to 1917? Jack Conrad replies to Jim Creegan
Proletarian dictatorship and state capitalism
25 Jun 2015
Chris Cutrone of Platypus examines the meaning of political party for the left
Democratic dictatorship vs permanent revolution
21 May 2015
Did Lenin and the Bolsheviks lack a credible strategy? Jim Creegan replies to Jack Conrad
Lenin’s programme found vindication
23 Apr 2015
Jack Conrad argues that, far from being disproved by 1917, the established strategy of the Bolsheviks was continued and enriched