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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
Strengths and weaknesses
24 Nov 2016
Ian Birchall looks at the valuable work of Alfred Rosmer - in particular his book Lenin’s Moscow. This is an edited version of the talk given at Communist University in August 2016
The enigma of Kautsky
03 Nov 2016
Karl Kautsky saw the wage-earning working class as the social power that would bring about the end of capitalism, writes Marc Mulholland. But he refused to romanticise the proletariat
We need a brand new clause four
22 Sep 2016
The battle with the right is sure to intensify after Corbyn’s re-election. As part of that battle James Marshall of Labour Party Marxists calls for the adoption of new principles
End the bans and proscriptions
01 Sep 2016
Once the Labour Party was characterised by tolerance and inclusion, all working class organisations were welcome - no longer. James Marshall of Labour Party Marxists explores the history
Sources, streams and confluence
25 Aug 2016
Ben Lewis offers some thoughts on the origins of democratic centralism
Return of the popular front
28 Jul 2016
The desire for a ‘party of the 99%’ represents a form of political collapse, argues Eddie Ford
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