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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

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

After Mamdani’s victory

03 Jul 2025

We should celebrate the triumph of a DSA member in New York City’s Democratic primary, argues Paul Demarty. But what this once again poses is the question of party control over representatives

One step back

03 Jul 2025

Marx provided many lessons of how to draft programmes. However, they were not only about building unity around concrete aims: they were also about drawing clear lines of demarcation, says Jack Conrad

Rising middle classes?

03 Jul 2025

Mike Macnair reviews Dan Evans A nation of shopkeepers: the unstoppable rise of the petty bourgeoisie Repeater Books, 325pp, £10.99

Completely different foundations

26 Jun 2025

As with now, the economic significance and politics of the middle classes was being hotly debated among socialists back in the 1890s. Some claimed their growth as disproving Marxism. Others could only see proletarianisation. Ben Lewis has translated a highly pertinent passage from Karl Kautsky’s Anti-Bernstein (1899), which offers still valuable insights. Mike Macnair provides the introduction

Privileged information leaks

26 Jun 2025

Everything is happening in secret. But secrets have a habit of being told. Meanwhile, yet another deadline has come and gone, reports Carla Roberts

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