Party & Programme > Democratic centralism
The long view
29 Mar 2012
Communists must be patient, writes Paul Demarty, avoiding the twins of opportunism and adventurism
SWP: Leatherites thirsting for a purge
10 Oct 2013
Faced with criticism from two directions, the central committee is desperately trying to limit the damage. Peter Manson reports
SWP: At war with itself
03 Oct 2013
The leadership is divided between two competing factions. Meanwhile there is the challenge presented by the official opposition. Peter Manson reports on the growing disarray
Die Linke: Safe spaces task force
26 Sep 2013
A word of warning from Maciej Zurowski for those in Left Unity who wish to emulate the German left party
Safe spaces: Conway-Hudson school of censorship
26 Sep 2013
Paul Demarty defends the idea of free speech on the left
SWP: Treating the symptoms
26 Sep 2013
Attempting to reform the disputes procedure will not cure the SWP of its bureaucratic centralism. Meanwhile, splits have opened up in both the opposition and loyalist camps, writes Peter Manson
CWI Ireland: Attempt to silence critics
08 Aug 2013
Anne McShane surveys the response to CWI member Craig Murphy's honest and forthright article on the Socialist Party in Ireland
Socialist Party Ireland: Not for the public domain
25 Jul 2013
Craig Murphy, a member of the Socialist Party in Ireland, reports on the resignation of four prominent comrades and the dishonest response of the leadership
Delta resigns: Now the rest should follow
25 Jul 2013
The resignation of Martin Smith was long overdue, argues Peter Manson
Democratic centralism: Further fortunes of a formula
25 Jul 2013
While the emphasis inevitably shifted according to circumstances, writes Lars T Lih, for the Bolsheviks democracy was just as vital as centralism
Alex in wonderland
18 Jul 2013
Attempts by the leadership to portray the SWP as the only Leninist organisation in town are totally at odds with reality, argues Ben Lewis
Democratic centralism: The genie and the bottle
18 Jul 2013
If you can loosen SWP restrictions on free debate on one occasion, asks Peter Manson, why not do so permanently?
SWP: How did this bloody mess come to pass?
18 Jul 2013
Marxism, the annual school of the SWP, saw a revamped opposition, reports Mark Fischer
SWP: Opposition flexes its muscles
11 Jul 2013
The leadership got its disciplinary vote, writes Paul Demarty. But then it pathetically backed down
SWP leadership: Laughable history produces laughable results
11 Jul 2013
Jack Conrad argues that the pre-1917 Bolshevik model of organisation should be properly studied and properly understood
Socialist Party/CWI: Rudeness and revolution
04 Jul 2013
The Committee for a Workers International should not insist on micro-managing debates, argues Paul Demarty