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
End bureaucratic centralism
07 Jun 2007
Unity of the Marxist left is both possible and realistic, argues Mike Macnair. What is lacking is the will
Humpty Dumpty programmers
07 Jun 2007
The London debate over programme put on by the Campaign for a Marxist Party on June 3 was reasonably well attended - there were some 20 comrades present, though none of them were new faces. Phil Kent reports
House-building under construction
25 May 2007
Communists need a pool to swim in, not a fish tank, argues Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group
No saviour from on high
25 May 2007
Stan Keable replies to Phil Sharpe on the right strategy for the Campaign for a Marxist Party
Prepare for marathon
17 May 2007
Phil Sharpe of the Democratic Socialist Alliance defends his advocacy of a halfway house workers' party as a means of promoting the Marxist programme
Two-way traffic and continued divisions
17 May 2007
As the SWP desperately tries to keep a semblance of control over its Respect offspring in Tower Hamlets, the local branch has seen one of its councillors cross the floor to Labour, while a high-profile Labour leftwinger moves in the opposite direction. Peter Manson reports
Build a halfway house
11 May 2007
The formation in 1920 of the CPGB was an error resulting from rigid dogma, argues Phil Sharpe of the Democratic Socialist Alliance
'It has to go'
11 May 2007
The May 26 CMP day school, held in Manchester's Friends Meeting House, was the first in a series of four originally designed to facilitate the CMP-CPGB merger process. Peter Manson reports
Where now for CMP?
11 May 2007
Peter Manson looks at the prospects for the Campaign for a Marxist Party and reports on the first in a series of CMP day schools
Nationalism sinks left
10 May 2007
Last week's Holyrood election results were a disaster for what passes for the left in Scotland. Both the Scottish Socialist Party and Solidarity failed dramatically. Jim Moody reports
Election fiasco
10 May 2007
Scottish Socialist Party and Campaign for a Marxist Party members Sandy McBurney and Matthew Jones give their view
Mixed bag for the left
10 May 2007
Respect did best out of the left organisations standing in the English local elections: it gained two new councillors, though it lost a sitting one. The Socialist Party also lost one of its six councillors. And the weird and wonderful Socialist Labour Party does not appear to know how its own candidates did. Tina Becker reports
Fence-sitter
03 May 2007
Barry Biddulph, of Sheffield CMP, adds his thoughts on halfway houses
No backsliding
03 May 2007
The April 29 London meeting of the Campaign for a Marxist Party discussed at length the need for the CMP to stand firm on its founding principle - that communists need to campaign for a Marxist party in the here and now, not at some time in the indefinite future. Mary Godwin reports
Propaganda for a lost generation
26 Apr 2007
Phil Sharpe replies to Mike Macnair on the question of the Marxist party's programme