Party & Programme > Economism
'Transitional' to what?
02 Aug 2007
Setting the scene for a series of articles on 'permanent revolution', Mike Macnair argues that the dictatorship of the proletariat must take the specific form of the democratic republic
Left culture: Politics for dummies
03 Oct 2013
Paul Demarty asks why so many on the left are afraid of talking politics
Safe spaces: Conway-Hudson school of censorship
26 Sep 2013
Paul Demarty defends the idea of free speech on the left
Socialist Platform: Politics of prejudice
19 Sep 2013
The fear of political groups and impatience with political meetings on display at the Socialist Platforms first national meeting are deeply linked - and politically pernicious, argues Paul Demarty
Socialist Platform leaders: Headlong collapse into politics of the labour bureaucracy
19 Sep 2013
Peter Manson reports on the undemocratic manoeuvres of the drafting group
Socialist Platform: An exchange
12 Sep 2013
Message sent to the Socialist Platform drafting group by the CPGB and a reply from the comrades
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
ISNetwork: Entropy, therapy and eclecticism
18 Jul 2013
The International Socialist Network is still trapped by SWP politics, argues Harley Filben
AWL school: Economism and frontist delusions
27 Jun 2013
Mike Macnair was at the Ideas for Freedom school to listen, to learn and to debate
People's Assembly: John Rees and the fragile politics of broadness
27 Jun 2013
Peter Manson reports on the launch of John Reess united front against austerity
Broad parties: Theories of deception
20 Jun 2013
The extent to which we practise transparency and democracy determines whether we can be taken seriously, argues Mike Macnair
To get out of the gutter, begin by looking up at the stars
06 Jun 2013
Should the left aim for a non-socialist stage of capitalism? A stage acceptable to Stalinites, trade union bureaucrats and left reformists? Ben Lewis responds to Tim Nelson of the International Socialist Network
Anti-sectarianism, Polish style
23 May 2013
Maciej Zurowski interviews comrades from a Polish Marxist tendency, and finds parallels with left thinking in the UK
Sectarian left: Svengalis of Left Unity block unity
16 May 2013
Peter Manson examines two contrasting views of the new attempt to revive Labourism
Student elections: Campaigning for communism
21 Mar 2013
Communist Students member Callum Williamson reports on his campaign during the Univeristy of Westminster Union student elections
Programme and Party: Broad bad, mass good
21 Feb 2013
Opportunists require mushy politics and meaningless phrases when they set out to deceive. Jack Conrad argues in favour of a mass working class party and the kind of principles and politics outlined in the Communist manifesto, the Erfurt programme and the programme of the Parti Ouvrier