Party & Programme
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
Civil war continues
25 Sep 2025
Stay well clear of efforts to ‘save’ Your Party’s launch conference by a self-appointed clique intent on staging their own coup, says Carla Roberts. Instead rely on members, branches, STV elections and democracy
Paved with good intentions
25 Sep 2025
Informed by a pamphlet written by the Pacific Collective (Marxist-Leninist), Jaques de Fouw explains how to build communist unity through a watered down minimal programme and opening up to opportunist groups
Straight from Momentum playbook
18 Sep 2025
Branches are to be ignored and the mass of members treated to token regional meetings and pointless break‑out sessions. Carla Roberts examines the plans for November’s founding conference
Tailing the tailists
11 Sep 2025
We are for the existence of factions where there are substantive differences. They can aid political clarity and the educational quality of debates. But what Carla Roberts proposes is that the CPGB should follow the standard far-left path. This is liquidationist, argues Mike Macnair
Reject this dog’s dinner
11 Sep 2025
Team Corbyn is postponing the launch conference. When it eventually happens, participants will be chosen by lot, things will be run under tight control and serious debate will not get a look-in, says Carla Roberts
Don’t put off democracy
04 Sep 2025
Max Shanly and Jack Conrad debated the pros and cons of sortition for the founding conference of Your Party. Should we seek to mirror the average? Or raise the average through electing delegates? Carla Roberts reports
Say it loud, say it proud
04 Sep 2025
Why does Jeremy Corbyn refuse to say he is anti-Zionist? Jack Conrad urges Your Party to draw a clear red line. Israel is an expansionist project, a racist project, a genocidal project
Make the party now!
28 Aug 2025
Resolution unanimously agreed at the August 24 aggregate of CPGB members and invited supporters
Put politics in command
28 Aug 2025
Comrades in Jeremy Corbyn’s Your Party, especially branch activists, are busy debating various forms of representation. All have their advocates and supporters, not least sortition. Jack Conrad is neither an advocate nor a supporter
Taking off … despite the leadership
21 Aug 2025
Contrary to what Zarah Sultana thinks, her OMOV proposals would make Your Party less, not more, democratic than even today’s Labour Party, warns Carla Roberts. Plus: the first reports from branches
Make Your Party now!
21 Aug 2025
The mass movement in solidarity with Palestine is taking party form. Now what matters, says Jack Conrad, is getting the structures, above all the politics, right. Reject Labourism, reject federalism
The road needs illumination
24 Jul 2025
Minimum demands and clear principles are vital. Mike Macnair responds to those who think that the working class can dispense with the minimum programme
Cold war economism
17 Jul 2025
Members of TAS have fielded all sorts of arguments - some serious, most spurious. Mike Macnair cuts through the thicket to show why we need a minimum programme and a period of transition between capitalism and the highest phase of communism
Civility and its discontents
10 Jul 2025
Lessons from Martin Luther and the Hobbesian demand for speech controls. Can we build a workable communist movement without ruthless truthfulness, even at the cost of giving offence? Paul Demarty thinks no
Get back to the talking
10 Jul 2025
Being in a majority is nicer than being in a minority, but without minorities accepting being in a minority, there can be no hope of meaningful communist unity. Scott Evans reports on the June 30 TAS meeting