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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

Maximising socialist message

12 Dec 1996

After the Leicester council by-election Militant Labour has renewed its call for joint socialist candidates for the general election, as well as the need for the SLP constitution to be amended so that all socialists can participate in the building of the SLP. We print here the letter from ML’s national secretary to Patrick Sikorski

Socialist Labour makes its mark

12 Dec 1996

OP still talking

05 Dec 1996

After last Sunday’s conference the search for organisational forms which avoid the discipline of democratic centralism goes on

Organisational questions?

05 Dec 1996

Below we reprint recent exchanges between the Provisional Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Revolutionary Democratic Group on the question of communist rapprochement

SUPPLEMENT: Advance from vanguardism

28 Nov 1996

On April 30 members of Open Polemic ended their membership of the CPGB. Here we print their reply to criticism of that decision published in Weekly Worker (May 9 1996). Below Mark Fischer replies and we print three documents submitted to the OP conference on December 1 from CPGB comrades

Same old mistakes

28 Nov 1996

Fight the liquidation of the ICP

28 Nov 1996

Edited statement by the Trotskyist Unity Group and Scottish Trotskyist Unity Group (external Leninist faction of the ICFI)

Room for all revolutionaries

28 Nov 1996

We print below a letter from the Communist Party (dated November 26 1996) to the Liaison Committee of Militants for a Revolutionary Communist International on the question of communist rapprochement. This was requested by the LCMRCI, a Trotskyist organisation, composed largely of comrades from a Workers Power/League for a Revolutionary Communist International background. The comrades are seeking clarification of our stance to provide the basis for future exchanges on the question of Party-building and the possibility of joint work.