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
Comintern review: Not a school of strategy
21 Feb 2013
Mike Macnair reviews: John Riddell (ed), 'Toward the united front: proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the Communist International 1922'. Brill, 2012, pp1310, 200 (paperback also available from Haymarket Books, £39.99)
SWP and programme: Transitional regression ends in a hunch
14 Feb 2013
Is the so-called transitional method the road to revolution? Jack Conrad argues against the economism of the Socialist Workers Party
Owen Jones polemic: Babies and bathwater
07 Feb 2013
Stan Keable of Labour Party Marxists thinks that Owen Jones has thrown out the democratic baby
SWP crisis: Professor Callinicos and the dark side
31 Jan 2013
Finally a member of the SWP central committee attempts to defend its conduct. Paul Demarty wishes he hadnt bothered
USSR polemic: In defence of defencism
10 Jan 2013
The Soviet Union did indeed feature a form a form of planning, argues Jim Creegan in his reply to Paul Flewers
CPGB History: Illuminating the factional struggles of the CPGB
29 Nov 2012
Mark Fischer welcomes the second edition of a book which uncovers some long-hidden history
April theses: Before and after April 1917
22 Nov 2012
The April theses represented Bolshevik continuity rather than a break, argues Lars T Lih. This is an edited version of a speech given to a London Communist Forum
The relevance of Lenin today
12 Jul 2012
Why is the Bolshevik leader ritualistically invoked, only to be demonised? Chris Cutrone of the US Platypus group examines the paradox
Grigory Zinoviev at his best
21 Jun 2012
John Riddell reviews: Ben Lewis and Lars T Lih (eds), 'Zinoviev and Martov: head to head in Halle', November Publications, 2011, pp229,
Bolshevism and revolutionary social democracy
07 Jun 2012
Lars T Lih completes his series of articles on Lenin's view of the party question by examining the context in 1920 of 'Leftwing' communism
How Lenin's party became (Bolshevik)
17 May 2012
Did Lenin seek to exclude Mensheviks from Russia's revolutionary organisation in order to forge a 'party of a new type'? Lars T Lih looks at the reality
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