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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

Bigger and better

20 Mar 2025

Tina Becker looks forward to comradely debate and discussion, not least around the communist fusion process. Book now

Getting down to details

13 Mar 2025

Our first face-to-face meeting took place on March 8. The aim was to find out where we agreed and where we disagreed. Mike Macnair reports on Forging Communist Unity

What’s in a name?

13 Mar 2025

Toby Abse reports on Rifondazione Comunista’s desperate attempts to re-enter parliament and the illusions it is fostering in the Bric countries as a source of peace

A very English possibilist

06 Mar 2025

Steve Freeman of the Republican Labour Education Forum dismisses the idea of a mass Communist Party as utterly utopian. Instead he proposes a Commonwealth Party

Very essence of Marxism

06 Mar 2025

Mike Macnair reviews Bruno Leipold Citizen Marx: republicanism and the formation of Karl Marx’s social and political thought Princeton University Press, 2024, pp418, £32

Operating on a hunch

06 Mar 2025

The International Socialist tradition is nowadays characterised by an almost pathological fear of adopting a programme. Yet without a comprehensive, fully worked-out programme there is every chance of falling into opportunist incoherence, argues Jack Conrad

Programmatic starting point

27 Feb 2025

Without a comprehensive, fully worked-out programme, our party will have no chance of taking coherent form, guarding against opportunism or navigating the road to socialism, argues Jack Conrad

CPGB perspectives for 2025

27 Feb 2025

Moshé and Nick

20 Feb 2025

Question, question, question, that is Marxism. Carla Roberts reports on the latest session in the ‘Building a Communist Party’ series organised by Why Marx?, which addressed the question of sects and sectarianism

Speech controls yet again

20 Feb 2025

There are those who want to keep differences polite, internal and under tight control. That is the approach of the opportunist right. Mike Macnair takes issue with those complaining about the CPGB’s ‘bad culture’

Dead-end politics

20 Feb 2025

Secret conclaves, weird local campaigns, self-appointed gatekeepers and a complete lack of democracy. Carla Roberts takes a look at yet another broad-frontist party in the making

Politics of the generation game

13 Feb 2025

How leftwing are the Zoomers? We are told that 47% want “the entire way our society is organised” to be “radically changed through revolution.” Paul Demarty examines generational dynamics

Problems and progress

13 Feb 2025

We are ready now to get down to programmatic specifics, but there are the ‘partyists’ who are not walking the walk ... yet. Jack Conrad reports

Additional letters

13 Feb 2025

Thoughts on the Marxist Unity conference in Salford from Cat Rylance, Edmund Potts, Chris Strafford, Toby Mckenzie-Barnes, Daniel Brady, Bryce Bailey

Two meetings and many possibilities

13 Feb 2025

No-one thinks we stand on the threshold of mass politics. But there is clearly an audience, especially amongst those wanting to go beyond the confessional sects. Carla Roberts reports

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