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
A Chartist trade union party?
01 Jun 2006
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group looks forward to a synthesis of reform and revolution
Political consciousness and international unity
25 May 2006
What is the link between national and international revolution? What is the role of the workers' international? Mike Macnair continues his series on communist strategy
Against war, for workers' rights
04 May 2006
Yassamine Mather reports on Iranian workers taking to the streets on May Day
What we need
04 May 2006
For the first time in many years there was actually some kind of showing from the trade unions on the London May Day march. Alan Fox reports
Communist strategy and the party form
27 Apr 2006
Mike Macnair examines the Leninist 'party of a new type' and disentangles its advantages and shortcomings from the necessity of splitting from the Second International
War and revolutionary strategy
20 Apr 2006
Mike Macnair puts the record straight on Lenin's call for defeatism and insists on the necessity of the left taking the democratic question of arms seriously
War and revolutionary strategy
13 Apr 2006
Mike Macnair puts the record straight on Lenin's call for defeatism and insists on the necessity of the left taking the democratic question of arms seriously
Intransigently brave
06 Apr 2006
Mark Fischer remembers Paul Whetton, a former member of the CPGB and an outstanding rank and file miners' leader during the Great Strike of 1984-85, who died on March 3
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