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The long view
29 Mar 2012
Communists must be patient, writes Paul Demarty, avoiding the twins of opportunism and adventurism
Totally in control
11 Nov 2021
The central committee is looking forward to yet another conference without a peep of opposition from the rank and file. Peter Manson reports on the first of three internal bulletins
Failing the Lenin test
21 Oct 2021
A spooked leadership is attempting to silence its left critics, especially the rebel youth wing. The use of cadre names, defence of Stalin, advocacy of a popular militia and any public dissent have been outlawed. Paul Demarty reports on what could end up as a messy split
Principle, not dogma
17 Dec 2020
No one can discredit Marxism better than ‘Marxists’. Mike Macnair responds to criticisms from Gerry Downing and Levi Rafael
Break with managerialism
29 Oct 2020
Martin Thomas’s response to Neil Faulkner misuses history to defend the bankrupt model of confessional sects, argues Mike Macnair
Historical muddle, theoretical overkill
22 Oct 2020
Continuing his response to Neil Faulkner, Mike Macnair rejects the myth of the ‘Zinovievist’ origin of democratic centralism
Fiasco nears conclusion
13 Jun 2019
Peter Taaffe’s split-mongering shows that loyalty to him is the yardstick of orthodoxy in his ‘international’, argues Paul Demarty
Negations of democratic centralism
30 May 2019
Mike Macnair completes his series of articles dealing with the issues raised by the collapse of the US International Socialist Organization
Full-timers and ‘cadre’
25 Apr 2019
Mike Macnair discusses the managerialist version of ‘democratic centralism’ revealed by the collapse of yet another sect
Tactics, principles and willing dupes
19 Jul 2018
What attitude should the left take to the People’s Vote campaign and its call for a second referendum? Jack Conrad insists that referendums are a backward, not a forward step for democracy
Victimisers pose as victims
26 Apr 2018
David Shearer of Labour Party Marxists reports on the lobby in support of Marc Wadsworth
Supplement: Biography of a sister slogan
05 Apr 2018
The demand for the ‘publication of the secret treaties’, which represented a key turning point in support for the Bolsheviks, predated the April theses by several weeks, writes Lars T Lih. This is the seventh and concluding part of the series, ‘All power to the soviets!’
Too early to celebrate
01 Mar 2018
Iain McNicol gone, JLM calling the police, rumours about Ken Livingstone being reinstated … But it’s not all plain sailing for the left, warns Carla Roberts of Labour Party Marxists
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer man
15 Feb 2018
Jeremy Newmark, the ‘ideal representative’ of the Jewish Labour Movement, stands accused of all manner of wrongdoing. Tony Greenstein calls on the Labour Party to act
When chickens come home
15 Feb 2018
Jeremy Newmark is in trouble, Ann Black has been dropped and AWL members have been declared ‘unwelcome’, reports Carla Roberts of Labour Party Marxists
Target for a witch-hunt
16 Nov 2017
Moshé Machover, recently reinstated into the Labour Party following his summary expulsion, addressed a meeting organised by the CPGB and Labour Party Marxists on November 12