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
It’s good to talk
28 Sep 2023
Unwillingness to fight through political differences results in unprincipled splits which cannot be explained and reduces the movement to gravel. Mike Macnair issues a call for debate
Two forms of unity
21 Sep 2023
There are any number of broad unity projects being plotted, floated and pushed at the moment. All will fail. James Harvey reports on our assessments, debates … and a membership application
Rebranding as Transform
03 Aug 2023
Yet another call for a new broad left party, yet another disappointment to come. Mike Macnair looks at the latest offering
Charting a difficult course
08 Jun 2023
How to move the DSA away from the Democratic Party’s left fringes? The answer lies in democratic centralism. Parker McQueeney answers Red Labor
No unity with scabs
15 Dec 2022
There need to be clear lines of demarcation. James Harvey reports on CPGB criticisms of the sort of unity being pursued by comrades in the Netherlands
Open polemics cauterise
17 Nov 2022
James Harvey reports on plans, problems and the need to openly thrash out principled differences
Uniting a motley band
13 Oct 2022
Andries Stroper reports on the first conference of a new socialist ‘party-in-formation’ and its prospects
Original takester
29 Sep 2022
It has been a strange journey from the Revolutionary Opposition to defence of the nation state and traditional values. Paul Demarty delves into Frank Furedi’s cheery new Substack
Not time to party … yet
15 Sep 2022
Emil Jacobs of Communist Platform suggests that more preparation time is needed before there can be worthwhile unity. Certainly uniting around the call for arming Ukraine would be disastrous
Where next for Nupes?
08 Sep 2022
René Gimpel reports on the enthusiasm and success brought about by uniting the left, but warns of the dangers and pitfalls that come with a flawed programme
Their army and ours
09 Jun 2022
Most of the left has embraced the peace slogan in a thoroughly pacifist manner. Marxists, of course, prefer peace to war, but, as Jack Conrad explains, with us that goes hand in hand with making propaganda for the establishment of a popular militia
Place for all communists
24 Sep 2020
William Sarsfield continues his series on the founding of the CPGB 100 years ago
Cowardice and opportunism
11 Jun 2020
Lindsey German has refused to withdraw the implication that the Stop the War Coalition will not associate itself with those expelled from Labour. Tony Greenstein reports
Call for affiliation
21 May 2020
William Sarsfield continues his series on the founding of the CPGB 100 years ago
End the farce
12 Jul 2018
Surely it is time to join the fight to transform the Labour Party, writes Peter Manson