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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
Alex in wonderland
18 Jul 2013
Attempts by the leadership to portray the SWP as the only Leninist organisation in town are totally at odds with reality, argues Ben Lewis
SWP leadership: Laughable history produces laughable results
11 Jul 2013
Jack Conrad argues that the pre-1917 Bolshevik model of organisation should be properly studied and properly understood
Democratic centralism: Fortunes of a formula
11 Apr 2013
How did 'democratic centralism' become 'democratic centralism'? Lars T Lih looks at the changing use of the phrase by the Bolsheviks
Debate: Lukács reloaded
07 Mar 2013
Dealing with the complex legacy of Georg Lukács demands something more sophisticated than treating him as an honorary member of the SWP, argues Lawrence Parker
Alex Callinicos: haunted by the real Lenin
07 Mar 2013
Ben Lewis observed few signs of revolt at last weekends SWSS day school
SWP CC and theory: Self-serving dishonesty
28 Feb 2013
Do the Socialist Workers Partys stability and clear perspectives result from its ban on permanent factions? You must be joking, writes Mike Macnair
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,