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
Self-determination and the British-Irish
16 Feb 2006
Jack Conrad argues in defence of thesis 19
Security, control and principled debate
02 Feb 2006
Does our paper's fight for transparency in the workers' movement play games with "people's lives and livelihoods"? The letter below from Mike Davies, a member of the left nationalist group, Cymru Goch, makes that charge. Mark Fischer replies
Completing Marx's project
19 Jan 2006
Communist Party comrades in London recently began a collective study of Beyond 'Capital', written by Michael A Lebowitz. The author argues that Capital, taken alone, is one-sided, given Marx's intention to also write a book on wage-labour. The incompleteness of Marx's work has helped produce a left whose theory is distorted and characterised by economism and programmatic narrowness. Mark Fischer spoke to the comrade in Venezuela, where he currently lives. He began with a description of his personal evolution as a communist
Bolivia shifts left
12 Jan 2006
Which effect will Evo Morales' victory have on the working class and the political landscape in South America? Eddie Ford takes a closer look
Take control of the Bolivarian revolution
12 Jan 2006
Nick Rogers disputes Paul Hampton's assertion that the Chavez regime is Bonapartist and calls for a radical transfer of power to the working class
Working class project for Spanish America
01 Dec 2005
Nick Rogers looks at the contradictions in the Bolivarian revolution and calls for the building of workers' unity across the continent to defend and extend the gains won in Venezuela
Vote for class independence
28 Apr 2005
Mike Macnair revisits the question of the popular front
Socialist Party gains second Lewisham councillor
11 Dec 2003
Peter Manson reports on the election of Chris Flood
Republican slogans and the CPGB
20 Nov 2003
Socialist Alliance: I claimed in a previous article that the CPGB was ducking the question of republican slogans in its intervention in the Socialist Alliance
Multitude or working class?
20 Nov 2003
European Social Forum: Multitude or working class?, Antonio Negri, co-author of Empire, was a star attraction
Lukács and reification
30 Oct 2003
Liam O Ruairc responds to Mike Macnair
A 'credible' alternative?
23 Oct 2003
The SWP's majority bloc has no confidence that socialism can win a mass audience, says Mark Fischer
Open up London ESF bid
16 Oct 2003
Another week, another secret meeting to discuss the proposal to host the European Social Forum 2004 in London. Tina Becker was there
Class politics not electoralism
16 Oct 2003
It looks as though the Socialist Workers Party's hopes for a cross-class 'peace and justice' coalition to contest next year's European and Greater London Authority elections are alive and well after all. Peter Manson reports
Stalin Society v CPGB
21 Jun 2001
What was the USSR?