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
The errors and pitfalls of general-strikism
17 Mar 2011
The March 12 London Communist Forum featured a discussion between Mike Macnair of the CPGB and David Broder of The Commune
Radical-reformist Kautskyites
10 Feb 2011
Gerry Downing accuses the CPGB of reformism
Sects and 'new left' disillusionment
15 Apr 2010
Mike Macnair reviews P Blackledge, N Davidson (eds) 'Alasdair MacIntyre's engagement with Marxism: selected writings 1953-1974' Brill (Historical materialism series), 2008, pp443, £89
A real united front could organise unemployed
28 Jan 2010
Mike Macnair takes a looks ahead to the SWP's 'Right to Work' conference
One-dimensional Marxism and proposition one
15 Dec 2005
Why does the CPGB accuse the Socialist Workers Party of economism? Jack Conrad explains with a look at the 'where we stand column' in Socialist Worker and the comrades' attitude to nature, ecology and global warming
Economism and the necessity of programme
05 Aug 2004
Jack Conrad argues that the left is crippled by its flattery of economic struggles - and the constant downplaying of the primacy of the political
Bureaucratic fist tightens
05 Feb 2004
Tina Becker reports that the ESF is in great danger of being totally taken over by Ken Livingstone - with the full support of his little helpers in the Socialist Workers Party
Neither fish nor fowl
29 Jan 2004
The unity coalition does not know whether it wants to be a movement or a party, argues Steve Freeman of the Revolutionary Democratic Group
John Rees airbrushes out history
29 Jan 2004
Rees' speech, while full of Panglossian optimism about the big time for the left (read, for the SWP), was actually an epitaph for the SA. Marcus Ström was there
Socialism: the final shibboleth
29 Jan 2004
Manny Neira attended Sunday's Respect launch. He reflects on soul music, and soul selling
No respect for equality
29 Jan 2004
Jack Conrad on the refusal of Respect to have its MP's on a workers wage thanks to the SWP
Socialism, reform and revolution
22 Jan 2004
Chris Jones of the Revolutionary Democratic Group looks at the role of class struggle in shaping the politics of the 21st century
Respect and opportunism
22 Jan 2004
Despite the failure of the SA the party question has not gone away: it is simply posed anew in the more difficult subjective conditions of Respect, writes Jack Conrad
What about the workers?
15 Jan 2004
Respect's convention on January 25, no matter what its outcome, will merit a minor historical footnote, if for no other reason than the achievment of an unexpected unity of the left - even for one day. Marcus Ström reports
What's in a name?
04 Dec 2003
Mike Macnair takes issue with Dave Craig on republicanism. Dave Craigs article, Republican slogans and the CPGB, which shows a remarkable lack of understanding of the arguments CPGB comrades have been putting forward