Party & Programme > Marxist unity
End the cycle of splits
24 May 2012
If the left is to build a serious political organisation it will have to facilitate internal dissent, writes Mike Macnair. And that will require both majorities and minorities to act responsibly
Doing things differently
06 Nov 2025
South Yorkshire Your Party regional assembly was a model of transparency, open debate, participation, democracy and control from below. Tina Becker, a member of the Sheffield proto-branch steering group, reports
Call for a Political Statement boycott
06 Nov 2025
Citing Tony Benn and his 1992 Commonwealth Bill, Steve Freeman of the Republican Labour Education Forum calls for dividing the working class movement in Britain along national lines, and a common organisation with the petty bourgeois Irish nationalists of Sinn Féin
Opening the second front
09 Oct 2025
Labourism dominates the working class electorate in Australia. Meanwhile, sectarianism dominates the left groups that pass themselves off as Marxist. Brunhilda Olding, a member of the Revolutionary Communist Organisation, welcomes an initiative designed to challenge both labourism and sectarianism
Don’t put off democracy
04 Sep 2025
Max Shanly and Jack Conrad debated the pros and cons of sortition for the founding conference of Your Party. Should we seek to mirror the average? Or raise the average through electing delegates? Carla Roberts reports
Put politics in command
28 Aug 2025
Comrades in Jeremy Corbyn’s Your Party, especially branch activists, are busy debating various forms of representation. All have their advocates and supporters, not least sortition. Jack Conrad is neither an advocate nor a supporter
Taking off … despite the leadership
21 Aug 2025
Contrary to what Zarah Sultana thinks, her OMOV proposals would make Your Party less, not more, democratic than even today’s Labour Party, warns Carla Roberts. Plus: the first reports from branches
Socialisms have prevented communism
12 Jun 2025
Peter Kennedy, a member of Talking About Socialism, responds to Mike Macnair. Obviously what he writes represents his own take on the contemporary situation and historic issues
Learning some elementary Russian
12 Jun 2025
Worthwhile unity can only be forged around a democratically agreed programme. But that necessarily involves minorities accepting majority votes. Demanding that majorities discard their programme and compromise on their principles is a non-starter, says Jack Conrad
Collaboration, yes; opportunism, no
05 Jun 2025
Programme is central. We have taken many years fashioning, discussing and fine-tuning. It would be the crassest opportunism to abandon what we have achieved. Jack Conrad replies for the CPGB
Putting things on hold
05 Jun 2025
Talking About Socialism has written this letter to the CPGB and the pro-talks faction of Prometheus, suspending our talks
Questions of communism
29 May 2025
What is the relationship between socialism and communism? Can socialism be built in a single country? Mike Macnair continues his exploration of the transition from capitalism
Unity in three parts
10 Apr 2025
When it comes to Forging Communist Unity, acceptance is vital, agreement is not. Thomas West reports on Mike Macnair’s opening to the April 6 CPGB aggregate of members, candidate members and invited visitors
Bigger and better
20 Mar 2025
Carla Roberts looks forward to comradely debate and discussion, not least around the communist fusion process. Book now
Dead-end politics
20 Feb 2025
Secret conclaves, weird local campaigns, self-appointed gatekeepers and a complete lack of democracy. Carla Roberts takes a look at yet another broad-frontist party in the making
Additional letters
13 Feb 2025
Thoughts on the Marxist Unity conference in Salford from Cat Rylance, Edmund Potts, Chris Strafford, Toby Mckenzie-Barnes, Daniel Brady, Bryce Bailey