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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
The year ahead: Nothing is preordained
21 Dec 1995
Mark Fischer, CPGB national organiser, looks at Perspectives 96 - adopted by a Communist Party members’ aggregate, December 1995
‘The Third Faction’
21 Dec 1995
Bob Smith - For a Permanent Party Polemic Committee
Rapprochement paper
21 Dec 1995
Kent wants democracy
21 Dec 1995
Two steps forward, two steps back?
21 Dec 1995
Socialist Labour Party
Towards Rapprochement
14 Dec 1995
The RDG recently held a membership aggregate. A packed agenda meant there was insufficient time for a full discussion on rapprochement. The RDG has therefore decided to reconvene in January to deal with this important issue. Below we reproduce the speech our national organiser, Mark Fischer, would have made to this meeting
The RDG’s draft minimum programme
14 Dec 1995
The CPGB rapprochement process has brought a number of groups from different traditions into its orbit. The Revolutionary Democratic Group has been particularly energetic in pursuing joint work and debating a number of programmatic questions, both in meetings and in the paper. We reprint its minimum programme and its ‘Where we stand’ column, which appears in the RDG’s bulletin, Workers Republic. We hope this will inform readers of areas of agreement and disagreement and take discussions on programme forward
Scottish socialists reject bureaucratic constitution
14 Dec 1995
Splitting the left from Labour
14 Dec 1995
The debate over Scargill’s call for an SLP was raging in Scotland long before this weekend’s meeting. Nick Clarke from the CPGB in Scotland here replies to John Foster of the CPB and Alan McCombes of SML, writing in the Glasgow Herald with edited versions reproduced here
Socialist Labour Party Constitution and Rule Book 1996
14 Dec 1995
Below we reprint Arthur Scargill’s detailed proposals for a Socialist Labour Party distributed at an unpublicised meeting on Sunday December 10
Historic opportunity demands widest possible debate
14 Dec 1995
Two factions
14 Dec 1995
Bob Smith - For a Permanent Party Polemic Committee
Sectarian vanguardism wins the day
07 Dec 1995
Bob Smith - For a permanent Party polemic committee
IWCA confusion
07 Dec 1995
Putting socialist vision back on the agenda
07 Dec 1995
Militant Labour and Scottish Militant Labour, like ourselves, have thrown themselves into discussion around a Socialist Labour Party. Nick Clarke spoke to Tommy Sheridan of SML about the possibilities of such an organisation