Party & Programme > Class and consciousness
Wide open for the class
19 Apr 2012
What is class-consciousness? Paul B Smith discusses the possibility of a political revival
Against the state, not just the ruling class
10 Jun 2010
Mike Macnair completes his examination of the lessons of bourgeois revolution
Models of revolution
03 Jun 2010
Mike Macnair reviews Henry Heller's 'The bourgeois revolution in France 1789-1815' Bergahn Books, 2006, pp172, £20.13; and, David Parker's (ed) 'Ideology, absolutism and the English revolution: debates of the British communist historians, 1940-1956' Lawrence and Wishart, 2008, pp285, £18.99
In defence of Popper
24 Jan 2008
Is Karl Popper an example of "intellectually dishonest anti-Marxism"? Bob Potter replies to Jack Conrad
Hain and working class morality
17 Jan 2008
James Turley calls for accountability of elected representatives
Grander in scope, poorer in content
29 Nov 2007
Were Marx and Engels really at one over the dialectic of nature? US communist Jim Creegan replies to Jack Conrad
Potential for working class struggle
15 Nov 2007
Hillel Ticktin identifies abstract labour as the key to collectivity in Marx's labour theory of value
For realism, for humanity
08 Nov 2007
What is the Marxist method? Hillel Ticktin looks at the main features. This is the first of three articles
Has history refuted dialectics?
13 Sep 2007
Rosa Lichtenstein explains why she rejects dialectical materialism - the 'mystical theory Engels smuggled into Marxism'
Frederick Engels and nature's dialectic
30 Aug 2007
Sadly Marxism must be defended against some who claim to be Marxists, or at least sympathetic to Marxism. Jack Conrad shows that this is especially the case when it comes to attacks on Frederick Engels and his work on the dialectic of nature
Dublin 1916 and the 'blood sacrifice'
05 Jul 2007
Philip Ferguson gives his view on some common criticisms of James Connolly
Well-meaning but inchoate
14 Jun 2007
As well as the platitudes and compromises from bourgeois politicians, the G8 featured protests from thousands who want 'another world'. Carey Davies reports
Defeat was fault of enemy machine guns
25 May 2007
Mike Macnair replies to Dave Brown and Gerry Downing who argued last week that the defeats of the 20th century are not grounds to rethink the strategic ideas of the early Comintern
Not rabbit hutches, but houses fit for the revolutionary proletariat
11 May 2007
When Margaret Hodge recently placed the blame for housing scarcity on migrants, she deliberately ignored the glaringly obvious, social solution: that of providing more houses. Jim Gilbert remembers Red Vienna and its houses fit for the revolutionary proletariat
Speeches and class war
03 May 2007
Alan Stevens reports from this year's May Day march in London
Clinging to Trotskyist pieties
29 Mar 2007
There is no movement in Britain to set up a new 'mass workers' party', argues Mike Macnair. What can be achieved, however, is a united party of the Marxists