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
Neither 1914 nor 1940
03 Mar 2022
Mike Macnair interrogates the bogus claims made by Paul Mason and Alex Callinicos about imperialism and the Ukraine war
Here we stand
03 Mar 2022
Not only must social-imperialists and social-pacifists be denounced: Jack Conrad calls for absolute clarity, when it comes to war and peace
Our sort of refugees?
03 Mar 2022
The Ukraine crisis sharply highlights the communist demand for open borders, writes Eddie Ford
A lesson in courage
03 Mar 2022
Anti-war protests in Russia give a glimmer of hope in a perilous situation, argues Paul Demarty
Blindness to empire
24 Feb 2022
As Russia invades Ukraine Britain’s social-imperialists rally to side of Nato. But for socialists the main enemy is at home, argues Paul Demarty
BDS: for or against?
17 Feb 2022
Israeli settler-colonialism and the appropriate solidarity movement with the Palestinians were debated at the February 13 Online Communist Forum. Daniel Lazare argued that the BDS campaign is a cross-class popular front which therefore should be shunned. Mike Macnair stressed the US alliance with Israel, attempts to outlaw BDS and the ongoing witch-hunt against anti-Zionists in the Labour Party
Perspectives 2022
17 Feb 2022
As proposed by the PCC and agreed by the AGM of CPGB members held on February 12
Charting the way forward
17 Feb 2022
We have suffered, and continue to suffer, from political fragility, but we have every reason to be confident about the future. James Harvey reports
Facts on the ground
10 Feb 2022
Eddie Ford argues that supporting Ukrainian self-determination, without taking into account Nato expansionism and the rights of the Russian minority, effectively means backing US imperialist interests
The police and standing army too
10 Feb 2022
The SWP is bad, but the CPB is worse. Jack Conrad critiques the cowardly, tailist, opportunist left and stands by what used to be the uncontroversial call to establish a popular militia
Rightwing ‘Marxism’- a senile disorder
03 Feb 2022
Michael Sommer’s 2014 essay 'Anti-Postone: or, Why Moishe Postone's Antisemitism Theory is Wrong, but Effective' has recently been translated into English by Maciej Zurowski (Cosmonaut Press 2021, Available on Amazon or in the Cosmonaut webstore). A more than useful contribution to the fightback against the ‘anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism’ big lie, which finds its most ‘sophisticated’ justification in the pseudo-Marxist writings of Moishe Postone. Here is the introduction provided by Mike Macnair
Instrument providing direction
03 Feb 2022
There has been a much publicised inner-party struggle. Andries Stroper reports on the launch of the new draft programme of the Communist Platform in the Netherlands
Austerity socialists win
03 Feb 2022
The victorious Socialist Party is putting all its hopes in the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Plan, says Michael Roberts, and has no intention of ending the country’s dependence on French and German capital. Not surprisingly the left coalition partners were hammered
Plucky little Kiev
03 Feb 2022
Self-determination is not an absolute principle. We in the western left must train our main fire on our own warmongers, argues Paul Demarty
Remembering and forgetting
03 Feb 2022
James Harvey surveys the Bloody Sunday commemorations, speeches, articles and the left’s none too glorious record