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
Party school
15 Feb 1996
Party notes
For a reforged Communist Party of Great Britain
08 Feb 1996
Minimal platform agreed by the Provisional Central Committee, CPGB and For a Permanent Party Polemic Committee (faction of the CPGB)
Unity around programme
08 Feb 1996
Statement by the Revolutionary Democratic Group on current relations between the RDG (faction of the SWP) and the PCC(CPGB)
Opening up the debate
08 Feb 1996
John Milligan, Lanarkshire branch secretary of the RMT, was a member of the Labour Party for many years, and left over the poll tax and different industrial issues. He is involved both in organising SLP meetings in Scotland and in the Scottish Socialist Alliance. Nick Clarke spoke to him
Scottish socialist alliance: Building a revolutionary party
08 Feb 1996
Saturday’s Scottish Socialist Alliance meeting is Glasgow is an important political event. The meeting will be presented with proposals from the organisation’s Steering Group designed to deepen and extend the unity of the SSA’s constituent elements. Scargill’s initiative on the Socialist Labour Party has pushed important forces on the left in England and Wales into seriously discussing the key question of building an alternative to Blair’s ‘new’ Labour. In Scotland, however, organisations like Scottish Militant Labour, the Socialist Movement, Liberation (left wing of the Scottish National Party) and others had already established a common front. At the meeting on Saturday, comrades - including from the Communist Party of Great Britain - will move towards even closer unity in a common organisation. This is a very welcome development and the CPGB sends its best wishes to the conference for a successful and positive discussion. On the eve of Saturday’s important debate, Mary Ward - leading member of the Communist Party in Scotland - gave us her views on the way forward.
Clean break with Labour
08 Feb 1996
Phil Felstead is one of the ex-miners in Hemsworth who worked throughout the SLP campaign. He worked at South Kirkby colliery until it closed in 1988 and was then forced into redundancy as a result of his militant record. Lee-Anne Bates spoke to him about the SLP
Partisan campaign shows the way forward
08 Feb 1996
The Socialist Labour Party’s first election campaign was an energetic, committed and buoyant one
Kent Socialist Alliance
01 Feb 1996
Manchester SLP launch
01 Feb 1996
Hemsworth - talking to the activists
01 Feb 1996
SLP campaigners spoke to Lee-Anne Bates
Reform or revolution?
01 Feb 1996
Scottish Socialist Movement AGM
Debate poses need for communist unity
01 Feb 1996
Last Sunday the Communist Party hosted a debate with the Independent Working Class Association on the need for common action among revolutionaries
High road, low road
01 Feb 1996
Bob Smith - For a Permanent Party Polemic Committee
Where now for SLP?
01 Feb 1996
The Communist Party worked for as big a vote as possible for the Socialist Labour Party’s Brenda Nixon in the Hemsworth by-election despite many disagreements with the platform she stood on. However, the campaign in itself represents something historically significant
Teething problems
25 Jan 1996
Bob Smith - For a Permanent Party Polemic Committee