Party & Programme > Democratic centralism
The long view
29 Mar 2012
Communists must be patient, writes Paul Demarty, avoiding the twins of opportunism and adventurism
Democratic or bureaucratic centralism?
30 Oct 1997
Mark Fischer concludes his reply to Richard Brenner of Workers Power
Party notes
30 Oct 1997
Sect or Party?
23 Oct 1997
Mark Fischer replies to Richard Brenner’s polemic against the Communist Party. First, the question of democratic centralism ...
Open challenge to Taaffe
16 Oct 1997
Earlier this year five - ultra-economistic - members of Labor Militant (sister organisation of the Socialist Party) were expelled from the US group, whose leadership was acting in concert with the International Secretariat of the Committee for a Workers International. The expelled members included John Reiman and a leading comrade referred to as SO’T. Here we publish an extract from the US minority document, The expulsions, which calls on CWI supporters to fight for what they understand as genuine democratic centralism
Democratic centralism and the LRCI
02 Oct 1997
Richard Brenner, a delegate to the League for a Revolutionary Communist International’s fourth congress in July, replies to Don Preston of the Weekly Worker
Long live the party line!
11 Sep 1997
Around the left
Socialist democracy and democratic centralism
28 Aug 1997
We reprint a document of an organised tendency within the Socialist Party involving John Bulaitis, Phil Hearse, Sarah Parker, David Lyons, Paul Morehouse and James White.
Thesis on communist rapprochement
14 Aug 1997
This thesis was agreed to by the Provisional Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain and the Organising Committee of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) on August 10 1997
Democracy and the Socialist Labour Party
03 Jul 1997
Open letter from Terry Burns, the SLP’s parliamentary candidate in Cardiff Central
Scargill rubs it in ...
03 Jul 1997
Party notes
Scargill: ‘Keep quiet or get out’
03 Jul 1997
Once again Arthur Scargill lays down the law against democracy in the SLP - this time in his reply to Martin Wicks. The comrade had forwarded him partisan suggestions for extending democracy in the SLP. The document he sent was signed by a number of SLP comrades and published in the Weekly Worker (June 12)
Tribune of the people
03 Apr 1997
Revolutionary candidates: Saklatvala
One lump
16 Jan 1997
Party notes
Continuity and discipline
19 Dec 1996
Party notes
OP still talking
05 Dec 1996
After last Sunday’s conference the search for organisational forms which avoid the discipline of democratic centralism goes on