WeeklyWorker

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

Squaring the circle

10 Apr 2025

SWP tops flip-flop between left syndicalism and electoral opportunism, says Paul Demarty - sometimes too quickly for hapless editors to keep up

Rediscovering our words

10 Apr 2025

Communist unity needs solid programmatic foundations if it is going to succeed. Towards that end, Jack Conrad says that we need to return to our common language to overcome common misunderstandings

Unity in three parts

10 Apr 2025

When it comes to Forging Communist Unity, acceptance is vital, agreement is not. Thomas West reports on Mike Macnair’s opening to the April 6 CPGB aggregate of members, candidate members and invited visitors

They just stopped

03 Apr 2025

Just Stop Oil is shutting up shop, and declaring victory - but the truth is that it has been thoroughly and predictably defeated by the state, argues Paul Demarty

Minimum demands are maximal

03 Apr 2025

Let us not understate our radicalism or drive ourselves into sterile propagandism. Mike Macnair reports on the latest meeting of Forging Communist Unity

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’

1 2 3 ... 297 298 299 >