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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
Bold move needed
18 Jan 1996
Mark Fischer attended the recent aggregate of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP). He brought the greetings of the Provisional Central Committee of the CPGB and a call for the RDG to make a bold move in communist rapprochement
For a workers’ party
18 Jan 1996
Scargill’s SLP has been launched without any debate over politics, strategy or organisation. The constitution was presented as a fait accompli. Nevertheless debate does not end here
Not the Stalin Society ...
11 Jan 1996
Bob Smith - For a Permanent Party Polemic Committee
Time is right for SLP
11 Jan 1996
Over the next few months the Weekly Worker will be speaking to working class activists about their attitude to Arthur Scargill’s call for a Socialist Labour Party. Here we talk to Brenda Nixon, formerly of Doncaster Women Against Pit Closures
Scotland blazes the trail!
11 Jan 1996
Five-year plan
04 Jan 1996
Bob Smith - For a Permanent Party Polemic Committee
The fight for a Socialist Labour Party
04 Jan 1996
SUPPLEMENT: Without Partyism there is no struggle for communism
21 Dec 1995
Comments on RWT’s ‘The struggle for communism, yesterday, today and tomorrow’
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