CPGB News
Hidden from history
22 Nov 2007
Lawrence Parker, The kick inside - revolutionary opposition in the CPGB 1960-1991 2007, £4.00 (+ £1.15 postage), pp75
Merseyside strikes set to continue
14 Dec 1995
The strikes of Merseyside dockers and firefighters look set to continue into the new year. Financial and moral support is increasingly important over the holiday period.
Towards Rapprochement
14 Dec 1995
The RDG recently held a membership aggregate. A packed agenda meant there was insufficient time for a full discussion on rapprochement. The RDG has therefore decided to reconvene in January to deal with this important issue. Below we reproduce the speech our national organiser, Mark Fischer, would have made to this meeting
The RDG’s draft minimum programme
14 Dec 1995
The CPGB rapprochement process has brought a number of groups from different traditions into its orbit. The Revolutionary Democratic Group has been particularly energetic in pursuing joint work and debating a number of programmatic questions, both in meetings and in the paper. We reprint its minimum programme and its ‘Where we stand’ column, which appears in the RDG’s bulletin, Workers Republic. We hope this will inform readers of areas of agreement and disagreement and take discussions on programme forward
Scottish socialists reject bureaucratic constitution
14 Dec 1995
Splitting the left from Labour
14 Dec 1995
The debate over Scargill’s call for an SLP was raging in Scotland long before this weekend’s meeting. Nick Clarke from the CPGB in Scotland here replies to John Foster of the CPB and Alan McCombes of SML, writing in the Glasgow Herald with edited versions reproduced here
Socialist Labour Party Constitution and Rule Book 1996
14 Dec 1995
Below we reprint Arthur Scargill’s detailed proposals for a Socialist Labour Party distributed at an unpublicised meeting on Sunday December 10
Two factions
14 Dec 1995
Bob Smith - For a Permanent Party Polemic Committee
Twenty-first anniversary of the founding of the IRSP
07 Dec 1995
Statement by the Ard Comhairle of the Irish Republican Socialist Party
Debate continues after aggregate
07 Dec 1995
CPGB aggregate meeting passes Perspectives for 1996
Sectarian vanguardism wins the day
07 Dec 1995
Bob Smith - For a permanent Party polemic committee
Solidarity with Poder Obrero
07 Dec 1995
Competing revolutionary theories
07 Dec 1995
The CPGB organised a special meeting last Sunday to discuss the recent splits in the League for a Revolutionary Communist International, which is led by the Workers Power group in Britain. The issues that have precipitated these splits are of vital importance to the entire revolutionary movement and thus should be debated openly. The main speaker was José Villa, a leading member of the LRCI’s Bolivian section, Poder Obrero. Danny Hammill reports
IWCA confusion
07 Dec 1995
Walsall ‘socialists’ booted out
07 Dec 1995
Putting socialist vision back on the agenda
07 Dec 1995
Militant Labour and Scottish Militant Labour, like ourselves, have thrown themselves into discussion around a Socialist Labour Party. Nick Clarke spoke to Tommy Sheridan of SML about the possibilities of such an organisation