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