Party & Programme > Democratic centralism
The long view
29 Mar 2012
Communists must be patient, writes Paul Demarty, avoiding the twins of opportunism and adventurism
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
SUPPLEMENT: Advance from vanguardism
28 Nov 1996
On April 30 members of Open Polemic ended their membership of the CPGB. Here we print their reply to criticism of that decision published in Weekly Worker (May 9 1996). Below Mark Fischer replies and we print three documents submitted to the OP conference on December 1 from CPGB comrades
Open struggle for the future
14 Nov 1996
Last weekend a special meeting organised by the Communist Party discussed the lessons of Bolshevik organisation for communists today
ISG collapse
26 Sep 1996
Party notes
Anatomy of Militant Labour
29 Aug 1996
Defend Bob Davies
01 Aug 1996
SL Kenning looks at the latest developments in the Socialist Labour Party